US bans use of China’s DeepSeek AI tools by government agencies

📰 US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China. 📰 Source: BBC News 🔗 Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkgeq0k1wevo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss # AI # ArtificialIntelligence

AI News — Oct 20, 2026 🔘 Google DeepMind ships Gemini 4 Argon — 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3, only second frontier lab past 95% 🔘 Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 — 30% faster and cheaper than Sonnet 5, same price 🔘 US bans DeepSeek on federal systems — DHS removes tech, blocks future purchases 🔘 Tenstorrent raises $1.5B — valuation doubles to $6.2B, targets NVIDIA alternative territory 🔘 Microsoft launches "Guardian Agents" — agent-watches-agent inside Project Perception Anthropic cutting Sonnet pricing the day after Opus cuts is straight margin compression — they're pricing for volume, not margin. Meanwhile the DeepSeek federal ban + Tenstorrent's raise together signal the China-AI decoupling is moving from rhetoric into silicon. 💰 #AI #Anthropic #AISafety #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #CNN #TechNews

Homeland Security has ordered US civilian agencies to rip out DeepSeek and every product built on it. US hosting doesn’t get you out. The order removes all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products, and third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations, from civilian agency information technology, under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. DHS says DeepSeek’s hosted models store data on servers in China, where national security laws give Beijing wide latitude to obtain data from domestic companies. Because every prompt and response passes through that service, DHS warned the transferred data, alone or combined with public information, could produce actionable intelligence on US persons and government programs. @aipost 🏴