DHS orders DeepSeek AI removed from federal agency systems and barred from government contracts
Photo: The HillThe Department of Homeland Security has ordered that products from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek be removed from federal agency IT systems and barred from government contracting. The order, first issued in July, was published on the Federal Register website on Monday. It states that DeepSeek's AI models pose several distinct kinds of security threat. The directive applies to federal civilian agencies. It comes as DeepSeek's model has surged in popularity and competition in artificial intelligence intensifies.
Left-leaning outlets tracked by Crosswire had not reported this story at the time of writing; alternative/independent and right-leaning outlets had. The right-leaning New York Post calls the move a crackdown and the latest blow to a top Chinese model, placing it within growing AI competition and highlighting the order's threat warning. The Hill, the alternative/independent source, leads with the procedural details: the July issuance, the Monday Federal Register publication, the removal requirement and the contracting ban. Both agree on the core facts of the order and its security rationale.
How the sides differ Left sources have not covered this; right sources frame it as a blow to a popular Chinese model, while alternative sources stress the order's procedural details.
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Not covering this story. None of the left-leaning outlets Crosswire tracks has reported it yet. What one side leaves out can be as telling as what the others report.
The Hill leads with the order's mechanics: removal from agency IT systems, a government contracting bar, the July issuance and Monday's Federal Register publication, citing the order's threat language.
The New York Post calls it a crackdown on a surging Chinese AI model amid intensifying competition, highlighting the order's warning of multiple threats and describing federal civilian agencies as affected.