Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has launched a survey of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek on privacy practices, claiming about a popular new AI model.
Paxton on Friday submitted requests for information to Apple and Google, saying it was asking for an analysis of Deepseek's applications and documents that need to be submitted to display in their respective app stores.
“Deepseek appears to be nothing more than a proxy for CCP to undermine American AI control and steal civil data,” Paxton said in a statement. “That's why we are calling on Google and Apple to work together immediately by publishing a thorough investigation and providing all relevant documents related to the DeepSeek app.”
“The US and Texas remain at the forefront of global AI innovation, and companies lined up with CCPs that violate Texans' rights and undermine their control by illegally burdening American technology companies, are now fully in law. He faced a lot of strength.
Paxton also said it notified Deepseek that its platform violates Texas data privacy and security laws.
Following the release of the startup's new AI model last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has banned state officials from using IT and other Chinese technologies on government equipment. Virginia and New York are following with similar bans.
Deepseek's relationship with China, unlike those surrounding Tiktok, has sparked data privacy and national security concerns.
Chinese companies will need to share data with the Chinese government when requested, increasing the likelihood that Beijing can access or manipulate US user data.
Lawmakers expressed similar concerns about Tiktok, leading a broad, bipartisan majority last year to pass a law last year that required China-based parent companies to face a US ban.
The ban was scheduled to come into effect in mid-January. However, President Trump has put on hold for 75 days as he tries to reach a deal to make the popular video sharing platform available in the US.
The emergence of Deepseek last month was an investor who sold billions of dollars worth of tech stocks after claiming that Chinese startups spent just $5.6 million to train a new R1 model comparable to Openai's latest model I was surprised.
This threatened to adhere to current consensus on AI development as US technology companies leaked billions of dollars, such as chips and data centers, into infrastructure to build new models.
However, US technical leaders expressed confidence in the decision to continue the vast amount of AI infrastructure, largely dismissing concerns.
