Odaily Planet Daily News - Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith stated at a U.S. Senate hearing that an internal ban has been issued, prohibiting all employees from using the DeepSeek application (including desktop and mobile versions). Although DeepSeek is an open-source model that companies can deploy themselves to avoid data leaks, Microsoft pointed out that it still carries the risk of 'disseminating propaganda content or generating unsafe code.' Notably, Microsoft has not imposed a complete ban on competing products (such as Perplexity) in the Windows App Store, but Google-related applications (including Gemini) have quietly disappeared. (TechCrunch)