Companies and government agencies around the world are moving to restrict their employees’ access to the tools recently released by the Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek, according to the cybersecurity firms hired to help protect their systems.

The proposal to enhance transparency and guardrails for new technologies within broker-dealers is likely to be scrapped. However, compliance costs for major brokers are expected to rise, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysis.

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh discusses Deepseek, a Chinese AI startup, that has demonstrated breakthrough AI models offering comparable performance to the world's best chatbots at a fraction of the cost.

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s ambitious spending plans, predicting a “really big year” in which its artificial intelligence assistant will become the most widely used in the industry.

White House artificial intelligence czar David Sacks said there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese upstart DeepSeek leaned on the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own technology.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella had some kind words for DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that roiled his company’s shares earlier this week.

U.S. officials are investigating whether China’s DeepSeek purchased advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore,

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup would be valued at $4 billion,

DeepSeek AI database is exposed, allowing unauthorized access to sensitive information, including chat logs and secret keys. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek left a critical database exposed online, raising security concerns.

Officials in the White House and FBI have begun a probe into DeepSeek to determine whether banned NVIDIA chips were used to create the R1 model.

South Korea’s data protection authority is seeking clarification from DeepSeek on its data handling practices for the newly launched R1 AI chatbot, which has raised global privacy concerns and impacted tech stocks significantly.