US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (opens in new tab)

I use DeepSeek every day (via VSCode Insiders and Zed Editor). It's very affordable and, while it's slightly behind Claude (not sure how far behind Fable), it suits my working style well. I'm not using unsupervised multi-agent workflows and don't need a library of skills files - I'm writing most of the code and leaning on AI to help with mundane tasks - like;- generating types for APIs- generating boilerplate based on existing code- improving existing code (adding error handling, timeouts, th...