DHS orders removal of DeepSeek from government agency IT systems

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and barred the Chinese AI company from government contracting. The directive, initially issued in July and published on the Federal Register on Monday, cites multiple security threat vectors associated with the company’s AI models.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered that products from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek be removed from federal agency IT systems and barred from government contracting. The order, which initially went out in July, was published on the federal register website Monday. It said DeepSeek’s AI models present “multiple threat vectors,” noting the…