2026-10-19
DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
According to a Reuters report dated 2026-10-19, a new order from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security bars DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, from use in U.S. federal civilian agency IT systems. The order is also referenced in a Federal Register public inspection document, and the story gained discussion on Hacker News.
2026-10-17
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel announced that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, a minor update to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, is now available on AI Gateway under the model name deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017. According to Vercel, the update improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding, and finishes tasks faster with shorter outputs than the previous snapshot.
2026-09-10
DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash under an MIT licence
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026 and put it behind the deepseek-flash API name, routing the older deepseek-v4-flash names to it. DeepSeek calls it the smallest model in a new architecture family with native multimodal visual understanding, built for faster inference and higher throughput. Its pricing table lists a 1M context window, 384K max output, and standard rates of $0.30 per million input on a cache miss, $0.006 on a hit, and $1.20 output, halved off-peak.
