Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek raised about 100 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL among its largest investors. The company has not confirmed the round, and the terms could still change.
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and remove them from their systems. Private businesses are not barred, but vendors that sell to those agencies need to check their tools.
DeepSeek released an updated V4.1 Flash model on 17 October 2026 with open weights and a new live web search service. Here is what it means for businesses that run automated work.
Thirty minutes. We look at one process you run every week and tell you exactly what an AI worker would take off your desk, and what it would not.