US Government Mandates Removal of DeepSeek from Federal IT Systems Amid Security Concerns

10/20/2026

Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad

10/19/2026

The Department of Homeland Security told civilian agencies to remove China's DeepSeek and any service built on it, and banned buying more, citing the risk of sensitive data reaching Beijing.

10/19/2026

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The...

10/19/2026

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered that products from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek be removed from federal agency IT systems and barred from government contracting. The...

10/19/2026

Federal civilian agency IT systems must remove all products affiliated with the Chinese AI company, the Department of Homeland Security ordered.

10/19/2026

The order, which also bars future purchases of the company’s products and services, extends to products developed by DeepSeek affiliates and third-party products built using the company’s...

10/19/2026

The order cites national security concerns, including sending data to servers in China, the potential for malware and the overall risk to federal IT systems.

10/19/2026

The DHS order cites risks of sensitive data transfers and potential security vulnerabilities as Washington steps up scrutiny of Chinese technology in government systems.

10/20/2026

The AI race just saw another development. The US now wants federal agencies to stop using AI models made by Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. In a notice sent on Monday, the US Department of Homeland...

10/19/2026

The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI products and related services from IT systems, citing national security risks and concerns over potential data transfers to China.

10/19/2026

US is also banning acquisition of DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek by US civilian government agencies. DHS said DeepSeek models pose "multiple threat vectors"...

10/19/2026

The Trump administration barred civilian US government agencies from using products or services from Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, whose more affordable open-weight models pose...

10/19/2026

DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.