DHS has ordered DeepSeek out of US civilian government systems: not just the Chinese company's models but "any technolog...

DHS has ordered DeepSeek out of US civilian government systems: not just the Chinese company's models but "any technology built with the aid of" them, across agencies like Treasury, State and Justice. The Defense Department is excluded from this order. The notice gives no specific security reason. The wording is the interesting part, because DeepSeek's open-weight models sit inside a lot of American products: Snowflake, Vercel and OpenRouter all offer them, and they are cheap. Agencies now have to work out which of their vendors quietly route to one. The backdrop: the White House accuses Chinese labs of "malicious exploitation" of US models, and Anthropic and OpenAI, both heading for IPOs, say DeepSeek among others copied theirs. DeepSeek shipped a new model last week.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkgeq0k1wevo#DeepSeek #AI #China #US #Cybersecurity