TNB Tech Minute: U.S. Likely to Ban DeepSeek From Government Devices
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French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI plans to release models that its CEO said could outperform DeepSeek's latest version. In an interview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, its CEO said the company views DeepSeek as a contributor to the open-source realm rather than a competitor, and that embracing open-source is a cost-effective approach to developing increasingly powerful AI. Mistral AI and some other startups make their models available to the public.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek rattled markets in January after it developed a model that it said nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips, raising questions about the need to spend huge sums on advanced gear.

Speaking of DeepSeek, we exclusively report that the White House is likely to ban the chatbot app from government devices due to national security concerns. That's according to people familiar with the matter. They say U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek's handling of user data and that the Chinese company says it stores that data in servers located in China.

Sources say the Trump administration is also considering banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek's AI models to their customers, though they cautioned that discussions about those two moves were still at an early stage.

And Apple says it's delaying some AI upgrades to Siri. The company said today that it would take longer than expected to make Siri more personalized and make it able to take action for the user within and across apps. It anticipates rolling out the new AI features in the coming year. The delay follows recent efforts from the iPhone maker to make Siri more conversational. Apple has faced slumping iPhone sales in recent months.

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