DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

DeepSeek announced an “unprecedented” hiring campaign targeting roughly 150 senior engineers to revamp its backend infrastructure strained by surging user traffic and AI agents. Separately, an attacker who withdrew about 4,000 BTC from Blockstream’s Liquid Network federation wallet returned 3,400 BTC after the company patched its bridge nodes.