The US Just Banned DeepSeek. Here's What It Means for You

The US government just banned DeepSeek from its computers, and the same week DeepSeek quietly shipped an update that tests rank among the best AI coders you can download for free. Should you stop using it? Here's what the order really covers, and how to keep your code away from China. What's inside: what the Homeland Security order actually says (and what a report for Congress says it doesn't do), where your code goes when you paste it into DeepSeek's own app, how good the October 17 update is next to Claude Opus 5.5, the price gap (about 17 times cheaper for what it writes), and the switch: the same model served by a company in your own country. Chapters 0:00 The ban and the update 0:43 What the order says 1:30 Where your words go 2:17 The quiet update 3:13 The price gap 4:00 The switch 4:49 Keep it or drop it Sources (checked 2026-10-28) Congressional Research Service on the DHS order: https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/... The DHS notice (Federal Register, published 2026-10-20): https://public-inspection.federalregi... DeepSeek change log: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ DeepSeek prices: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_s... DeepSeek privacy policy: https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-... The model and its hosts: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De... Claude Opus 5.5 results: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude... Claude prices: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/a... Scores are the vendors' own; prices are list prices on the date above. We didn't run the model ourselves for this video. Narration uses a synthetic voice. Not legal advice. #DeepSeek #ClaudeCode #AICoding