User Data Collection At the heart of the controversy is DeepSeek’s data collection practices. Users have reported that the app requests extensive permissions that may include access to: ...

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI ...

South Korea may be the first to formally accuse DeepSeek of illegally sharing users' data with the controversial TikTok owner, but it's not the only country going after the new Chinese AI chatbot ...

Germany's data protection commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores in the country due to concerns about data protection, following a similar ...

German officials report DeepSeek privacy concerns to Apple and Google, demanding app removal over unlawful data transfers to ...

However, it’s mostly known for the controversies that are piling on. Adding another controversy to the pile, it looks like Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which said in January it had developed an AI model to rival ChatGPT at much lower cost, has come under scrutiny in some countries for its security policies and privacy ...

Apple Inc. and Google’s Android have been warned by a top German privacy regulator that the Chinese AI service DeepSeek, ...

Google and Apple must remove DeepSeek from their app stores, as the AI tool is unlawfully transmitting German users' personal data to China. The Berlin Commissioner ...

DeepSeek is under investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee over concerns it may share U.S. user data with the CCP or train its AI on American models.

While DeepSeek will have to obtain authorization from South Korean users to transfer data to China, it will still send that data to its home country rather than setting up servers in South Korea.

While China’s most ambitious open-source model may have been quietly fed by one of its Western rivals, if the product is an Open Source LLM better than GPT-4, does anyone really care? A couple of mont ...