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Senators Ask Commerce Secretary to Investigate DeepSeek’s Ties to China

DeepSeek may pose a risk to the security of American personal and enterprise data, the senators wrote in a letter.
Senators Ask Commerce Secretary to Investigate DeepSeek’s Ties to China
The DeepSeek search page is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a laptop screen displaying the Deepseek homepage in London on Jan. 29, 2025. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
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Seven Republican senators recently signed on to a letter asking the Commerce Department to examine data security risks and potential backdoors in Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models such as DeepSeek.

The group, led by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who announced the Aug. 1 letter in a press release on Aug. 4, asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to identify any threats from data collection by AI use case applications being sent back to China-based servers.
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
Reporter
Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based reporter. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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