"Currently, only registration with a mainland China mobile phone number is supported," DeepSeek posted on its website. "To ensure continued service, registration is temporarily limited to +86 ...

After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups.

DeepSeek has restricted new sign-ups to users with mainland China phone numbers due to malicious attacks on its systems. The surge in demand followed its AI chatbot's release, which briefly ...

DeepSeek said only users with a China-based phone number could register for a new account, a measure taken because it had recently faced "large-scale malicious attacks." The chatbot, which ...