Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on February 14, 2024, that his office has opened an investigation into DeepSeek’s privacy practices. DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company with ties to the People’s Republic of China, has been banned on state owned devices in Texas, New York, and Virginia. The Pentagon, NASA, and the U.S. Navy
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Three States Ban DeepSeek Use on State Devices and Networks
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
New York, Texas, and Virginia are the first states to ban DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned generative artificial intelligence (AI) application, on state-owned devices and networks.
Texas was first to tackle the problem when it banned state employees from using both DeepSeek and RedNote on January 31, 2025. The Texas ban includes other apps affiliated with the…
DeepSeek AI’s Security Woes + Impersonations: What You Need to Know
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Security researchers reported that DeepSeek “left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious…