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

A bipartisan House committee on Wednesday recommended placing restrictions on the export of AI models to China after concluding that DeepSeek trained its low-cost models using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also suggested imposing prohibitions on federal agencies procuring AI models from China, which does not seem like something that was going to happen anyway. The House Select Committee on China concluded that DeepSeek poses a “profound threat” to U.S. national security by collecting user data on Americans and sending it back to China. Lawmakers claim that DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, controls DeepSeek as well as a hedge fund called High-Flyer Quant with ties to state-linked research labs. The new report comes a day after the Trump administration placed restrictions on the export of Nvidia H20 chips to China, a major blow for the company that has made billions selling throttled, but still capable, chips for AI processing into the Chinese market. It was previously thought that ... Read full article.