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DeepSeek gets the TikTok treatment.

A new bipartisan bill seeks to ban Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek from US government-owned devices to “prevent our enemy from getting information from our government.” A similar ban on TikTok was proposed in 2020, one of the first steps on the path to its recent brief shutdown and forced sale.

Australia, Italy, and South Korea have already enacted similar bans, as has Texas, while the US Navy and NASA have blocked the app internally.

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