Microsoft publicly bans employees from using DeepSeek for the first time

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, stated at a U.S. Senate hearing that an internal ban has been issued prohibiting all employees from using the DeepSeek application (including desktop/mobile versions). Although DeepSeek is an open-source model that companies can deploy themselves to prevent data backflow, Microsoft pointed out that it still poses risks of "spreading propaganda content or generating unsafe code." It is noteworthy that Microsoft has not completely banned competing products (such as Perplexity) in the Windows App Store, but Google-related applications (including Gemini) have quietly disappeared. (TechCrunch)