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cybernews.com2026-06-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

The US has currently held off on blacklisting DeepSeek and over 100 other Chinese companies, a decision reflecting ongoing US-China tech policy tensions.

statusgator.com2026-06-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

As of June 24, 2026, DeepSeek's services were reported to be operational, with one user-submitted outage report in the preceding 24 hours.

cybernews.com2026-06-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

Multiple U.S. federal agencies and several states have restricted or banned the DeepSeek application on government devices and networks due to data-handling and national security concerns.

windowsforum.com2026-06-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

Microsoft is reportedly considering an Azure-hosted DeepSeek model as a lower-cost option for its Copilot Cowork enterprise agent.

prnewswire.com2026-06-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

DeepSeek has closed its first-ever external funding round, raising approximately 50 billion yuan (around $7.4 billion), which could significantly impact its development capabilities and market positioning.

downforeveryoneorjustme.com2026-06-21trust 2.0SUPPLYMulti-source

DeepSeek experienced a minor outage on June 21, 2026, which temporarily disrupted user and API access for approximately 43 minutes before being resolved.

govinfosecurity.com2026-06-17trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

The U.S. government has temporarily refrained from adding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to a key trade blacklist (Entity List) to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing. As of mid-June 2026, DeepSeek currently avoids direct U.S. export controls that would restrict access to U.S.-origin goods, software, or technology.

news.m.pchome.com.tw2026-06-17trust 2.0SUPPLYMulti-source

The US Commerce Department has reportedly delayed placing DeepSeek and over 100 other Chinese companies on its export control entity list. This decision, reported on June 17-18, 2026, suggests an effort by the US government to avoid further escalating tensions with Beijing.

tomshardware.com2026-06-17trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

The U.S. government has reportedly held off on adding DeepSeek to its trade-restricting Entity List to prioritize stability and avoid escalating geopolitical tensions with China.

163.com2026-06-16trust 2.0Official hintUnverified

DeepSeek completed its first round of external financing on June 16, 2026, raising over 50 billion RMB and valuing the company at approximately 50 billion USD. Founder Liang Wenfeng personally invested 20 billion RMB, with other investors including Tencent, CATL, JD.com, Alibaba, NetEase, and the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund.

incidenthub.cloud2026-06-13trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

DeepSeek experienced a seven-hour outage on its services, described as the largest service disruption since its debut.

tomshardware.com2026-06-06trust 2.0SUPPLYMulti-source

On June 6, 2026, a Huawei-led team announced the successful completion of full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro model using a cluster of at least 1,000 Huawei Ascend 910C chips, indicating DeepSeek's expanding capacity and diversification away from Nvidia hardware.

crowell.com2026-06-02trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a voluntary framework for AI developers to submit "covered frontier models" for federal review 30 days before public release, which could impact DeepSeek's operations or market entry in the U.S.

deepseek.ai2026-04-24trust 2.0SUPPLYUnverified

DeepSeek announced that the legacy API model names `deepseek-chat` and `deepseek-reasoner` will be discontinued on July 24, 2026, and will route to DeepSeek-V4-Flash until then.

straitstimes.com2024-05-29trust 2.0Official hintUnverified

DeepSeek secured a 50 billion yuan (approx. €6.4 billion) fundraising round, which founder Liang Wenfeng stated will finance the company's long-term research efforts for future models.