Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how surprising it was to the world’.

The US holds a "durable lead" over China in deploying advanced artificial intelligence technology at scale and harnessing civilian resources for military use, a leading AI policy expert has argued, as Washington weighs its response to the emergence of Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek’s recent prominence has “woken up” the United States-based tech lobbyists, who are now waiting to see what Washington will do to counter China’s artificial intelligence capabilities.

Security researchers say the website of the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has computer code that could send some user login information to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company that's been barred from operating in the United States.

A security expert warns "Deepseek," the no. 1 downloaded app on Apple and Google, could pose potential privacy concerns for American users.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, said on Thursday it had ordered DeepSeek to block its chatbot in the country after the Chinese artificial intelligence startup failed to address the regulator's concerns over its privacy policy.

The Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek has been banned from Australian government devices over national security concerns. Political reporter Olivia Caisley has the details from Canberra.