While the U.S. government is pondering a ban on Chinese AI, communist Chinese government-tied TikTok’s future still hangs in the balance.
After putting a pause on the TikTok ultimatum, giving the video platform a few months of reprieve, President Donald Trump‘s administration is reportedly considering a ban on biased Chinese AI DeepSeek from government devices.
Much like what occurred under the first Trump term with TikTok parent company ByteDance, unnamed sources allegedly told The Wall Street Journal that Trump is “likely” to ban DeepSeek from government devices. The reason for the potential ban: “national-security concerns.”
According to The Journal, “U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, which the Chinese company says it stores in servers located in China, the people said. Officials also believe DeepSeek hasn’t sufficiently explained how it uses the data it collects and who has access to the data, they said.”
Trump appointed David Sacks as artificial intelligence czar and has touted his goals for AI innovation in America, including by securing a $500 billion AI investment. Sacks warned in January that communist China was catching up to America on AI. That same month, radio talk show host Glenn Beck and a friend exposed DeepSeek for rewriting history in real time to defend the CCP’s genocidal record.
Trump originally issued an executive order to ban communist Chinese government-tied TikTok on national security grounds during his first term, but now his second administration is working on a deal with TikTok, according to the Associated Press. If TikTok is not sold to an American company by its Chinese parent ByteDance — in which the Chinese Communist Party owns a board seat and a financial stake — by April 5, however, then a nationwide ban on TikTok will still go into effect. Trump suspended the Biden administration January ban after taking office.
At the same time, as part of its free speech overhaul, American tech giant Meta is backing up the Trump administration‘s efforts to pull far ahead of China technologically.
Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, posted on Threads in response to FCC Chair Brendan Carr: “Meta's Llama models are American-made and free to use. We look forward to working with you and the [Trump] Administration to keep the US at the cutting edge of AI and make sure the global AI standard is based on our shared values, not China's.”
Zuckerberg also said in January that his company planned to coordinate with the Trump administration to defend free speech from foreign governments.
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