US lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban the Chinese AI program DeepSeek on government devices due to national security risks linked to its ties with the Chinese government. This follows evidence suggesting the program can transmit user data to China Mobile,

DeepSeek shot to the top of the app-store charts—and triggered a brutal stock market selloff—last week. But the Chinese artificial-intelligence chatbot could soon face the same fate as TikTok. Lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill Thursday that would block the app from government-owned devices,