“Some in the industry have claimed that the U.S. holds an 18-month AI lead, but that obfuscates reality—it’s closer to three months.” – U.S. AI Executive

DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s security. Although it presents itself as just another AI chatbot, offering users a way to generate text and answer questions, closer inspection reveals that the app siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users, and relies on a model that covertly censors and manipulates information pursuant to Chinese law. Equally troubling, the model appears to have been built using stolen U.S. technology on the back of U.S. semiconductor chips that are prohibited from sale to China without an export license and when it was released, PRC-affiliated social media accounts amplified and celebrated the model, according to Graphika research. This report documents some of the risks DeepSeek poses and explains how its development is based on common Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tactics designed to unlawfully undermine U.S. technological leadership and critical American policies to protect national security.

The Committee’s investigation found:

• DeepSeek funnels Americans’ data to the PRC through backend infrastructure connected to a U.S. government-designated Chinese military company.
• DeepSeek covertly manipulates the results it presents to align with CCP propaganda, as required by Chinese law.
• It is highly likely that DeepSeek used unlawful model distillation techniques to create its model, stealing from leading U.S. AI models.
• DeepSeek’s AI model appears to be powered by advanced chips provided by American semiconductor giant Nvidia and reportedly utilizes tens of thousands of chips that are currently restricted from export to the PRC.

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/reports/deepseek-unmasked-exposing-ccps-latest-tool-spying-stealing-and-subverting-us-export

Imperialism, naked :-)

Sergey Khutortsev, director of the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Public Communications Network (CMU SSN) of Roskomnadzor, reported on Thursday at the forum “Spectrum 2024” on the work done. According to him, 197 VPN services used to circumvent Roskomnadzor's blocking have been blocked in Russia so far.

“Separately, we work with VPN-services that violate Russian legislation as means of bypassing blocking. At the moment, we have 197 VPN services blocked,” Khutortsev said. In October last year at the forum “Spectrum 2023” he reported about 167 blocked in Russia VPN-services, that is, for a year under the ban got thirty more.

Earlier at the legislative level in Russia, providing access to prohibited information was called a threat to the stability and security of the Russian segment of the Internet. Since March 1, 2024, Russia has introduced a ban on the publication of information on ways and technical means of circumventing the blocking of illegal content on the Internet.

Linux creator Linus Torvald commented on the dismissal of the Russian developers in relation to Linux, calling the reasons for the change "absolutely clear."

"Using a few random anonymous accounts in an attempt to implement it by Russian 'troll factories' will not change anything. And for the information of innocent bystanders, why there are no 'troll farm' accounts - 'various compliance requirements' - this is not just an American story," he wrote.

Torvald reminded about the sanctions against Russia. On September 12, the US restrictions came into force, according to which American companies and individuals cannot provide IT consulting and design services, as well as IT support services or cloud services for the corresponding software to Russian organizations and citizens.

"As for sending me new updates - please use your, as you call it, brain. I am Finnish. Did you really think that I would support Russian aggression?" - said Torvald, explaining such intentions by “lack of knowledge of history.”

Interesting sin't it? We can see nature of Linus, and why he had been chosen (it had been lot of people who made UNIX like systems in initial state) and kept above all Linux development for all this years. Because he'll listen to his capitalist bosses, because he is nationalist. And fascist.