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- Fangcun Leap publishes an 87-page third-party safety eval of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017
Fangcun Leap (incubated by Tsinghua’s Institute for AI and IIIS) released an 87-page third-party safety evaluation of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 covering loss-of-control and harmful-manipulation risks across 34 tests and six comparison models. The report states it received no funding, compute, or non-public access from DeepSeek.
- China protests the US ban on DeepSeek in government systems and demands it be lifted, per The Decoder
The US has banned DeepSeek from its government systems, and China has protested sharply and demanded the ban be lifted, The Decoder reports. The outlet notes that China itself blocks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and says the protest should be read as a signal of possible retaliation.
- DHS orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and bars them from buying DeepSeek technology
The Department of Homeland Security published notice of an order excluding IT products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and its affiliates from federal civilian agency procurements. The order also removes all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products, plus third-party products and services built using DeepSeek implementations, from civilian agency IT systems. It was issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act after a Federal Acquisition Security Council review, and the notice was filed on Oct. 19 for publication in the Federal Register on Oct. 20. CyberScoop reports that the signed order from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is dated June 26 and cites risks including data transfers to China.
OfficialOfficial updateSource: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Federal Register)Part of DeepSeek