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Cisco wants to capitalize on the ‘DeepSeek effect’
DeepSeek’s shock introduction has had a massive effect on the adoption and development of generative AI models in the business landscape, and Cisco feels it has a significant advantage in capitalizing on this. Speaking at Cisco Live 2025, its annual EMEA conference in Amsterdam, Jeetu Patel, EVP and chief product officer at Cisco said this is a massive opportunity for…
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Is DeepSeek safe? A look at the risks and how to protect your data
DeepSeek has hit the headlines with the release of its AI chatbot app. Said to be comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT for a fraction of the price, it recently became the most downloaded free iOS app in the US. DeepSeek’s arrival caught Wall Street off guard, sending tech stocks tumbling. Notably, chip-making company Nvidia lost 17 percent (almost $600 billion) of its market value…
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AI chatbot war breaks out with DeepSeek debut, and the winner is…you
Less than a week after Chinese start-up DeepSeek rocked the tech industry, leading generative AI (genAI) model providers are scrambling to shore up their market foothold and find ways to emulate the newcomer’s tech efficiencies. Last week, DeepSeek’s eponymous chatbot hit Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store and downloads almost immediately exceeded those of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In short order, the DeepSeek-R1…
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Looking to use DeepSeek R1 in the EU? This new study shows it’s missing key criteria to comply with the EU AI Act
The popular AI model DeepSeek R1 may contain inherent flaws that make it incompatible with the EU AI Act, according to new research. DeepSeek R1 took the tech industry by storm in early January, offering an open source option for performance comparable to OpenAI’s o1 at a fraction of the cost. But the model’s outputs may contain vulnerabilities that jeopardize…
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DeepSeek — Latest news and insights – Computerworld
What enterprises need to know about DeepSeek’s game-changing R1 AI model Jan. 27, 2025: Two years ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched a new wave of AI disruption that left the tech industry reassessing its future. Now, within the space of a week, a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek has pulled off a similar coup, this time at OpenAI’s expense. iPhone users…
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Australia Divided In DeepSeek Response
Australian authorities disagree over the response the country should take to the runaway success of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek. While some industry groups call for rapid action to support national AI innovation, the science minister urges caution. The Tech Council of Australia, an industry body that includes Microsoft, Atlassian, Google, and IBM among its members, warned the government should…
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DeepSeek R1 has taken the world by storm, but security experts claim it has ‘critical safety flaws’ that you need to know about
DeepSeek R1, the new frontier reasoning model that shook up the AI industry, is vulnerable to a wide range of jailbreaking techniques, according to new research. A new report from Cisco warns that although DeepSeek’s R1 frontier reasoning model has been able to compete with state-of-the-art models from OpenAI or Anthropic, it has been found to have “critical safety flaws”.…
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I tested DeepSeek vs Qwen 2.5 with 7 prompts — here’s the winner
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup founded in 2023, has taken the internet by storm this week with its precision, speed, and mystery. Still ranking among the top free apps on Apple’s App Store, DeepSeek R1 is the chatbot that has garnered significant attention for its impressive capabilities, comparable to leading U.S. models such as ChatGPT and Gemini AI but achieved…
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DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse instances reportedly held over a million log entries containing user chat history in plaintext form, API keys, backend details, and operational metadata. Wiz Research discovered this exposure during a security assessment of DeepSeek’s external infrastructure.…
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Italy blocks DeepSeek due to unclear data protection – Computerworld
Italy’s data protection authority Garante has chosen to block the app for the much-hyped Chinese AI model DeepSeek in the country. The decision comes after the Chinese companies providing the chatbot service failed to provide the authority with sufficient information about how users’ personal data is used. Reuters writes that Garante wants to know, among other things, what personal data DeepSeek collects, from…
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