DeepSeek’s disruption signals that the U.S. needs more competition, not Big Tech dominance, to be the world's AI leader

China on Monday unveiled its DeepSeek artificial intelligence, shocking the U.S. tech sector and sending chip-maker Nvidia's stock tumbling. Anna Coren reports.

DeepSeek has secured a “completely open” database that exposed user chat histories, API authentication keys, system logs, and other sensitive information, according to cloud security firm Wiz. The security researchers said they found the Chinese AI startup’s publicly accessible database in “minutes,” with no authentication required.

Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot

Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data. The authority, known as Garante,

Export controls need to be tightened after revelations the Chinese company used Nvidia technology, the leaders of a congressional committee said.

OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.

DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model,