Lawmakers are now pushing to immediately ban the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing national security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have built a backdoor into DeepSeek to access Americans' sensitive private data. If passed, DeepSeek could be banned within 60 days.

Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek has garnered similar privacy and security concerns as the Chinese social media app TikTok, and Congress may act similarly with the new technology. The two leaders of the National Security Agency and Cyber Subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee are set to announce a bill that would ban the app

DeepSeek AI may join TikTok and CapCut on the U.S. banned apps list due to security concerns over its potential to send data to Chinese government.