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DeepSeek Outage Shakes AI Service Used by 355M Worldwide

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Feed Name: TechRepublic Security

Date Published: 2026-03-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Kezia Jungco

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DeepSeek, a widely used Chinese AI chatbot platform with hundreds of millions of users, experienced its longest outage—about seven hours—leaving workers, developers, and everyday users unable to access the service; engineers applied fixes and restored service by mid-morning, but the company did not disclose a root cause, raising concerns about reliability as AI becomes core infrastructure.

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