The White House is weighing measures to restrict Chinese artificial-intelligence upstart DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices because of national-security concerns, people familiar with the matter said. U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, which the Chinese company says it stores in servers located in China, the people said. Officials also believe DeepSeek hasn’t sufficiently explained how it uses the data it collects and who has access to the data, they said. The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek’s chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, the people said. Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek’s AI models to their customers, people close to the matter said. They cautioned that discussions about these two moves were still at an early stage. Earlier this year, DeepSeek sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and Washington when it released a powerful AI model built at a fraction of the cost of its U.S. rivals.

Full exclusive : United States is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns.