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U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. The National Security Council is reviewing the implications of the app,

Some lawmakers also weighed in with concerns about the application's access to U.S. users. "The U.S. cannot allow Chinese Communist Party models such as DeepSeek to risk our natio

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at her first press briefing that the National Security Council was "looking into" the potential security implications of AI breakthroughs from China's DeepSeek,