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Uber hid 2016 breach, paying hackers to delete stolen data — The New York Times

Hackers had stolen 57 million driver and rider accounts, and the company had kept the data breach secret for more than a year after paying a $100,000 ransom. Read the report by Mike Isaac, Katie Benner, and Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/uber-hack.html

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies — CNBC

It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use; writes Hayden Field. 

DeepSeek’s popular AI app is explicitly sending US data to China — Wired

Users have already reported several examples of DeepSeek censoring content that is critical of China or its policies, writes Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman. 

DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations — CNBC

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services; writes Hayden Field. 

Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family — TC

The models, which are available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face, are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro, writes Kyle Wiggers. 

Eleos raises $60M

Eleos, a behavioral health AI company, has secured 120 million in a Series C funding round.