US House panel calls China’s DeepSeek AI a ‘profound threat’ to security

A US congressional committee has branded the Chinese artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek as a “profound threat” to America’s national security amid the intensifying trade war between the two countries.

DeepSeek was described as being closely associated with the Communist Party and “designed to unlawfully undermine US technological leadership and critical American policies to protect national security”, said the report by the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.