Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors 

A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to keep the Chinese-made large language model out of government systems and networks, where lawmakers fear it could pose cybersecurity and national security concerns.

The bill, introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., would bar federal contractors from using the model to carry out any activity related to a federal contract. It also blocks contractors from using any successor model developed by High Flyer, the Chinese quantitative firm that made DeepSeek.

Cassidy and Rosen cited the potential that the use of DeepSeek — which acknowledges that it sends user data back to China — to carry out contract work may put sensitive federal data in the hands of the Chinese government.

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