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The US Just Ordered DeepSeek Ripped Out of Federal Systems — Including Apps That Quietly Use Its Models

Original illustration: a dark government server room at night, rows of racks with one glowing red node being pulled out by a silhouetted hand, cables hanging, cool blue emergency lighting with an amber alarm glow in the distance, teal and amber grade

In brief The Department of Homeland Security has ordered all US federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. The order does two separate things: it excludes DeepSeek products from future procurement, and it mandates the removal of … Read more