A bipartisan House committee on Wednesday recommended placing restrictions on the export of AI models to China after concluding that DeepSeek trained its low-cost models using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also suggested imposing prohibitions on federal agencies procuring AI models from China, which does not seem like something that was going to happen anyway. […]
Singapore Scheme May Have Funneled Nvidia Chips to DeepSeek
A local case of fraud in Singapore might be the tip of the iceberg for some international AI intrigue. According to Reuters, three people were charged with fraud for allegedly lying about the delivery of items to a server supplier. Local media reports indicate that those “items” may have been high-end Nvidia chips that may […]
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of DeepSeek Vulnerabilities as Governments Ban App
A cybersecurity company is warning businesses and organizations not to use a popular app from the generative AI company DeepSeek, saying that the program contains a number of security vulnerabilities that could compromise users’ data. The DeepSeek app, which shocked the stock market when it moved to the top of the Apple App Store in […]
DeepSeek Gets an ‘F’ in Safety From Researchers
Usually when large language models are given tests, achieving a 100% success rate is viewed as a massive achievement. That is not quite the case with this one: Researchers at Cisco tasked Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s headline-grabbing open-source model DeepSeek R1 with fending off 50 separate attacks designed to get the LLM to engage in […]