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.

Chatbot vanishes in Italy amid claims OpenAI's model was used to train Chinese AI - DeepSeek says its AI model is similar to US giants like OpenAI, despite fears of censorship around issues sensitive

DeepSeek is just one of many Chinese companies working on AI to make China the world leader in the field by 2030.

OpenAI believes its data was used to train DeepSeek’s R1 large language model, multiple publications reported today. DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence provider that develops open-source LLMs.

If you’ve been keeping up with the news regarding emerging technology such as generative artificial intelligence, you’re likely already aware of popular services such as ChatGPT and Meta AI. While these models have been disrupting the tech space for the last few years,

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has surged past OpenAIs ChatGPT in Apples App Store downloads, sparking national pride and raising concerns for U.S. tech giants. The company recently launched a free AI assistant that