Bangladesh, Feb. 7 -- The United States government is taking steps to prohibit the Chinese-developed AI chatbot application DeepSeek from all government-owned devices, citing national security concerns. A bipartisan bill introduced in the US House of Representatives on February 6 follows similar actions taken against TikTok in previous years, reflecting broader tensions between Washington and Beijing over data security and technological dominance.

DeepSeek, developed by the Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek Inc., has rapidly emerged as the most downloaded app in the US, surpassing OpenAIs ChatGPT on Apples App Store. Its popularity has been fueled by its freely accessible DeepSeek-R1 model, offering AI-powered assistance without a subscrip...