Germany's data protection commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores ...

Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users ...

Berlin's data protection commissioner, Meike Kamp, argues that the 'transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is illegal.' ...

This is not DeepSeek’s first run-in with regulators in Europe, following run-ins with Italian and Irish authorities.

DeepSeek's AI model propelled the Chinese firm to fourth in LiveBench's global LLM rankings amid the US-China AI race.

In addition to problematic censorship and data collection policies, DeepSeek falls short on features and performance. There ...

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well).

Investigating DeepSeek. The report, titled “DeepSeek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool for Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions,” was published in April 2025.

At one point, DeepSeek was the most downloaded app on both the App Store and Google Play. DeepSeek’s mobile client is based not on R1 but rather DeepSeek-V3, an LLM the AI lab open-sourced in ...

State attorneys general have joined the growing calls from elected officials urging Congress to pass a law banning the Chinese-owned DeepSeek AI app on all government devices, saying "China is a ...

Once the app is installed, you’ll download the LLM of your choice into it from an in-app menu. I chose to run DeepSeek’s R1 model, but the apps support myriad open-source LLMs.