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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans DeepSeek, RedNote and other Chinese-backed AI platforms
The proclamation orders adds six technologies, including DeepSeek, Lemon8 and RedNote, to the state's prohibited technologies list.
"Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our state’s critical infrastructure through data-harvesting AI and social media apps," Abbott said in a news release about the order Friday afternoon. Gerardo Interiano, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at self-driving vehicle technology company Aurora, said during the conference Friday that there's a need to regulate AI development, and the DeepSeek news shows what that should look like. The Department of Public Safety was asked to target and arrest those "executing CCP (Chinese Communist Party) influence operations like 'Operation Fox Hunt' to forcibly return dissidents to China."
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