A prolonged overnight outage at Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek disrupted service for hundreds of millions of users, sparking widespread complaints across social media platforms. The company’s chatbot website and app were offline, according to a company notice and user feedback. Credit: DEEPSEEK The Hangzhou-based AI laboratory began investigating the disruption after its namesake chatbot went offline from Sunday evening. DeepSeek issued fixes between 1 a.m.

ByteDance has bolstered its controversial video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, with advanced watermarking and intellectual property (IP) protection guardrails. This move precedes its global rollout amidst intense scrutiny from Hollywood studios.