DeepSeek stores information it collects “in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China”, one of the world's most cyber crime-prone countries in the world.
A US senator has questioned giving representatives of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “full access” to a payments system for the US Treasury.
The state government has moved quickly to ban DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot from all government networks and devices from Wednesday morning.