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Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says


Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in

Smith said the restriction stems from the risk that data will be stored in China and that DeepSeek’s answers could be influenced by “Chinese propaganda.” Since DeepSeek is open source, anybody can download the model, store it on their own servers and offer it to their clients without sending the data back to China. His investigative reporting has led to U.S. government sanctions against four tech companies, including China’s largest AI firm.

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