China’s DeepSeek AI Banned in US

[ABS News Service/21.10.2026]

The Department of Homeland Security is banning the use of China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence from all federal government agencies.

DHS said in a Federal Register notice that it has decided to prohibit the use of information technology products and services developed by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Company, Limited, including affiliated entities as defined in applicable regulations, from federal civilian agency procurements.

The order also requires the removal of all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products, and third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations, from civilian agency information technology.

House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-Mich) praised the move to ban DeepSeek technology from all federal civilian agencies' IT systems.

“DeepSeek is a dangerous AI model that has no place in the federal government, and the Trump Administration is right to put this commonsense AI guardrail in place,” he said. “Last year, the Select Committee investigated how DeepSeek is a tool for the CCP to spy, steal, and subvert export controls on the world-leading chips that keep America ahead of the CCP.”