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The White House is looking into whether China's apparent AI breakthrough affects US national security.

US officials are considering the national security implications of an apparent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough by Chinese firm DeepSeek, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Speaking on Fox News, the recently appointed "White House AI and crypto czar", David Sacks, also suggested that DeepSeek may have used the models developed by top US firm OpenAI to get better. Yuyuan Tantian, a social media channel under China's state broadcaster CCTV, claims the firm has faced "several" cyber attacks in recent weeks, which have increased in "intensity".

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