Texas prosecutor General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into Deepseek, the Chinese artificial intelligence company that rocked Wall Street last month, alleging that it violates the laws on the confidentiality of data from its state.
The Republican AG said that “the blatant allegiance of Deepseek in the Chinese Communist Party (CPC)” is extremely worrying, because it “seems to be an indirect indicator for the PCC to undermine American domination of AI and to steal data of our citizens ”.
The controversial company is subject to Chinese laws, which obliges cooperation with government intelligence agencies and potentially compromised private user data, said Paxton, adding that he informed Deepseek that he violated the law on law Texas confidentiality and security.
He also ordered Google and Apple to put their internal analysis of the AI Chatbot application from Deepseek and all the documentation that the company should submit before appearing in their respective application stores.
“I am announcing an in -depth investigation and I call Google and Apple to cooperate immediately by providing all the relevant documents linked to the Deepseek application,” PAXTON at Post.
“The United States and Texas will continue to be at the forefront of AI global innovation, and any company aligned by the CCP which tries to undermine this domination by violating the rights of the Texans and illegally American technology companies will be faced with the whole law of the law. “”
Last month, Paxton prohibited the AI assistant on all of his office aircraft due to national security problems and the risks he would promote propaganda and CEO censorship.
This week, the governor of New York Kathy Hochul and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin followed the step and prohibited from depth on all the devices and networks of their states.
However, President Trump was more optimistic about the emergence of Deepseek, saying that she should push Silicon Valley to innovate.
“The liberation of Deepseek AA of a Chinese company should be alarm to our industries that we must focus on the laser in competition to win because we have the greatest scientists in the world,” said Trump last month when the Bas -Cost Chatbot launched.
Paxton has continued aggressive disputes in the past, notably investigating technological companies on confidentiality and security problems and pursuing Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical giants for potential deceptive business practices in their marketing of the COVV -19.
