Overview

• A senior State Department official told Reuters that DeepSeek has provided support to China’s military and intelligence operations beyond its public AI offerings.
• U.S. investigators are examining allegations that the firm used Southeast Asian shell companies to bypass export restrictions and secure advanced Nvidia GPUs.
• Nvidia maintains DeepSeek relied on legally acquired H800 chips rather than restricted H100s, and academic papers confirm the use of 2,048 H800 units to train its DeepSeek-V3 model.
• Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry charged three men with fraud for allegedly misdeclaring server purchases to ship Nvidia chips to DeepSeek in China.
• Congressional committees and the Commerce Department have launched probes and issued new “know your customer” rules to tighten controls on chip exports to China.