Greg Abbott (R), Governor of Texas, has banned state officials on Friday to use Chinese -owned technology, such as DeepSeek and re -notebooks, on government equipment.
“Texas does not allow the CCP to invade important infrastructure in the state through data harvest AI and social media apps,” said Abbot. press release。 “Texas will protect and protect our nation from hostile foreign actors.”
In the last few weeks, Deepseek, a startup of artificial intelligence (AI), and Rednote, a short video social media app, have continued to escalate due to concerns about the technology owned by China. The popularity is increasing rapidly nationwide. US
“Important infrastructure, intellectual property, and state institutions and employees who are in charge of processing personal information must be protected from malicious spy activities by the Chinese Communist Party,” Abbot added. 。
President Trump called a new Holds of Deep Shek in Japan a “wake -up call.”
“The release of Deepseek, a Chinese company, should be a call for an industry that must focus on lasers by competing to win,” he said earlier this week. I told the Republican member of the Republican Party.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the AI startup explosion the global artificial intelligence race “turning point.”
“If DeepSeek can compete with them with less resources, the US leading high-tech players are clearly pressure,” he wrote in OP-ED.
However, DeepSeek has been mainly rejected by other technical leaders. Openai's creator Sam Altman claimed that the influence of the AI model was “very exaggerated,” and META's Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his confidence in his own company's AI work.
ABBott's banned Rednote is one of the top free downloads of Apple's US App Store, and the Tiktok court will be banned.
Abbott used to ban Tiku from government devices in 2022.
Other apps included in the ban on Texas include Webull, Tiger Brokers, Moomoo, and Lemon8.
