DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers

As US-based AI companies struggle with the news that the recently released Chinese-made open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model performs as well as theirs for a fraction of the cost, users are rushing to try out DeepSeek’s AI tool. In the process, they have pushed it to the top of the list of most popular iOS and Android apps. DeepSeek name abused for scams and malware delivery The company has reportedly been dealing with outages and … More →

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