The Victims of Deepseek

The Victims of Deepseek On October 20th, 2026, a short notice appears in the Federal Register of the United States. It is dry, it is bureaucratic, and it is brutal. Every civilian agency of the American government must stop buying from a Chinese company called DeepSeek, and it must tear out what it already owns, including third-party software quietly built on DeepSeek’s technology. The order was signed in July and kept out of public view for three months. Twenty-one months earlier, this same company erased nearly six hundred billion dollars from a single American stock in a single trading day. So who, exactly, were DeepSeek’s victims?