New York State Bans DeepSeek From Government Devices
- New York State has banned the Chinese artificial intelligence assistant DeepSeek on government devices due to concerns about censorship and foreign surveillance, as stated by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
- Hochul indicated that the ban is part of a broader effort to combat cyber threats and protect data privacy.
- Concerns about DeepSeek's potential to harvest user data and steal technology secrets were highlighted in Hochul's office statement.
- Legislation has been introduced to prohibit Americans from downloading Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, emphasizing national security risks, according to Rep. Darin LaHood.
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DeepSeek launch underlines value of news content to AI companies
The release of the new R1 model by China-based AI start-up DeepSeek has a number of important implications for news publishers, cutting across the future economics of AI, the ability of IP holders to protect their rights and the risks that these technologies pose to the broader information ecosystem. Firstly, on the IP questions. DeepSeek’s training data was obtained without authorisation or even transparency; the crawlers it is using are undecl…
Is DeepSeek a Subsidised Ploy by the Chinese Government to Disrupt the Market? – The Daily Sceptic
Is DeepSeek subsidised by the Chinese Government? Is it as cheap as is claimed or is it a ploy to disrupt the market? Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks look at these and other questions surrounding the arrival of Chinese AI.
House bill would ban DeepSeek on agency workers’ devices
Federal employees would be banned from using the Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek on their government-issued devices under new legislation from a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. The No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act, introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Darin LaHood, R-Ill., and 16 of their House colleagues Friday, comes after weeks of panic in Silicon Valley following the revelation that the Chinese startup’s A…
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