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U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security


In a new report, the bipartisan House committee came to the unsurprising finding that DeepSeek sends user data back to China.

It was previously thought that the administration would continue allowing the free flow of lower end chips in the country after CEO Jensen Huang made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, but it seems President Trump committed a rug-pull as licenses will now be required. In its report, which cited testimony from OpenAI, the committee claimed that DeepSeek likely used “unlawful” distillation techniques, whereby one AI model uses the outputs of another for training purposes to develop similar capabilities. The Trump administration is also continuing with its work to make TikTok’s U.S. business independent from its Chinese owner, but reports suggest that the government there will not discuss the possibility until tariffs are lifted.

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