Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 20 October 2026
Microsoft extends Project Perception to treat AI agents as insiders, with a permission set up per task and a risk score that changes
Microsoft's design rule for agents: start with no permissions, give each its own identity, and tighten access when its behaviour changes.
US Homeland Security orders DeepSeek products out of federal civilian agencies and contracts, including third-party tools built on DeepSeek
The Department of Homeland Security filed a notice on 19 October, scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on 20 October, of an order by the Secretary of Homeland Security. It excludes products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd and its affiliates from federal civilian agency procurement. It also removes all DeepSeek and affiliate products, and third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations, from civilian agency information technology. The order is issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018, and CISA runs the implementation team.
- If you sell software, data work or services to a US federal civilian agency, ask your AI vendors and developers in writing whether DeepSeek models run anywhere inside what you deliver.
- If you only use DeepSeek for your own work, nothing in the filing changes that; note which of your tools call it so you can answer a customer who asks.
Source: Federal Register (DHS notice). This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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