October 20262

DeepSeek Went Down for Five Hours. Its Refund Plan Is the Story

Chinese AI company DeepSeek suffered a five-hour API outage on October 15 and is refunding users in credit based on their previous week of spending. The compensation formula, not the crash, is what users are debating.

💻 TechnologyOct 16, 2026·2 min read#Innovation#Hangzhou

The Leaderboard Trap: How Chinese AI Models Win Tokens, Not Revenue

Chinese AI models burn most of the tokens on global routing platform OpenRouter but capture only a small slice of its revenue, raising questions about who owns the metrics that define success.

💻 TechnologyOct 8, 2026·3 min read#Tencent#Research

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