Chinese startup DeepSeek has caused a massive stir in the AI world, with Donald Trump looking set for another TikTok-style headache amid concerns over DeepSeek’s competitive edge and privacy policies.
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The U.S. is being forced to grapple with the power and advancement of another Chinese app, while the future of the TikTok ban, which was upheld by the Supreme Court on January 17, is still unknown after Trump signed an executive order telling the U.S. Attorney General not to enforce the law yet.
The TikTok ban was “designed to prevent China—a designated foreign adversary—from leveraging its control over ByteDance to capture the personal data of US TikTok users,” the Supreme Court said.
This was the backdrop against which Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI Assistant overtook Western rival ChatGPT and became the top-rated free app on Apple‘s App Store in …