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Anthropic says Moonshot and DeepSeek relayed live customer prompts to Claude — the distillation is the headline, the undisclosed subprocessor is your problem
Anthropic's 10 September threat report names seven China-based labs in illicit distillation campaigns totalling close to 200 million Claude exchanges, led by 151 million tied to Alibaba between May and July 2026. The finding that actually lands on buyers is smaller and worse: Anthropic says Moonshot and DeepSeek routed their own paying customers' requests to Claude without telling them and presented the answers as their own. That makes a hosted endpoint an undisclosed subprocessor, and the compliance exposure sits with the deployer, not the lab.
Read story →Hundreds of agents breached 395 organisations in 48 countries — then ignored their own operator's target exclusion list
GreyNoise documented an attacker who used hundreds of AI agents on a commercial Codex harness driving a DeepSeek model to weaponise two PaperCut zero-days: under four hours from empty workspace to first remote code execution, eleven organisations compromised in 26 seconds. The headline is the speed. The finding a buyer should act on is that the agents targeted countries their operator had explicitly excluded — the same instruction-following mechanism your own agent fleet's compliance policy runs on.
Read story →DeepSeek is retiring its flagship by routing it away — and on 14 September anyone still calling V4-Pro gets a reasoning downgrade with the price cut
V4.1-Flash launched 10 September at up to 86% below V4-Pro, with deepseek-v4-pro due to route to it on 14 September. Updated 14 September: DeepSeek reversed the retirement and V4 Pro API service continues with billing unchanged, while the superseded routing notice is still live in its release notes. Flash beats Pro on agent benchmarks and loses on reasoning — so the migration was always a capability trade, not a discount. And the peak-hour windows charge European mornings double while US working hours sit entirely off-peak.
Read story →DeepSeek bolted vision onto its cheapest model and charged nothing extra — the multimodal price floor just moved
On 21 August 2026 DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, adding image understanding to V4-Flash at identical token rates, with images capped at 384 tokens each and a free Files API. It claims near-parity with Claude Opus 4.8 on several multimodal agent benchmarks. Every one of those numbers comes from DeepSeek's own unreleased harness, and the model carries an explicit experimental label — which makes this a cheap option to evaluate, not a frontier model to migrate to.
Read story →The AI price war just flipped: DeepSeek is raising prices up to 1,100% while OpenAI and Anthropic cut
For two years the rule was simple — US labs were expensive, Chinese labs were cheap. In mid-August 2026 that inverted. DeepSeek launched its official V4-Pro and raised API prices by 50% to 1,100% with surge pricing from 17 August, while OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keep cutting. Here is the full current pricing map, why the flip is happening, and exactly what it means for your inference bill.
Read story →DeepSeek's cheap tier just beat its own flagship — and a pricing change is coming that hits Europe hardest
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 shipped 31 July with the same architecture as the April preview and gains entirely from re-post-training. It outscores V4-Pro-Preview on all seven reported benchmarks at roughly a third of the price. The benchmarks can't be independently reproduced, and a peak-hours pricing policy is coming that doubles cost during European working hours.
Read story →DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro prices 75% — now permanent (was promo through May 5)
Eight days after V4 Pro shipped, DeepSeek announced a 75% promotional cut on V4-Pro: input drops from $1.74 to $0.435 per million tokens, output from $3.48 to $0.87. Cache-hit input charges fall 90% across the entire DeepSeek API. Update May 22-25, 2026: the 75% cut is now PERMANENT — DeepSeek confirmed the discounted rates will not roll back after the originally-planned May 31 expiry.
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