DeepSeek services hit by second outage in 90 minutes

Two service disruptions within 90 minutes put the focus on operational reliability rather than model capability, a distinction that matters for anyone building on DeepSeek's API, where repeated instability directly interrupts dependent applications. The company's notice describes fixes applied and monitoring underway, but gives no cause, so it is unclear whether the second incident was a recurrence or a separate fault. Whether DeepSeek discloses a root cause, and whether API availability stabilizes over the coming days, is the open question for developers weighing how much uptime risk to absorb.