As China’s DeepSeek grabs headlines around the world for its disruptively low-cost AI, it is only natural that its models are coming under intense scrutiny—and some researchers are not liking what they see.

The U.S. tried to slow China’s advances, but the startup showed how hard that is.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (January 27) that Chinese startup DeepSeek's technology should act as spur for American companies and said it was good that companies in China have come up with a cheaper,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.

The sudden rise of Chinese AI app DeepSeek has leaders in Washington and Silicon Valley grappling with how to keep the U.S. ahead in the crucial technology.

DeepSeek was the most downloaded free app on Apple's US App Store over the weekend. By Monday, the new AI chatbot had triggered a massive sell-off of major tech stocks which were in freefall as fears mounted over America's leadership in the sector.