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The Department of Homeland Security is requiring all civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and 'any third-party services developed using DeepSeek implementations,' and to stop buying them.Read original on X
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US government bans DeepSeek from civilian federal agency systems
The Homeland Security mandate covers third-party services built on DeepSeek, turning Chinese-model dependencies into a procurement and compliance risk for US vendors.
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SITUATION DETECTED: The US government is banning DeepSeek from all civilian federal agency IT systems under national security.Read original on X
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