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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds

The Albanese government is banning DeepSeek – the Chinese artificial intelligence model – from all government systems and devices on national security grounds.

It says this is in line with the actions of a number of other countries and is based on “risk and threat information” from security and intelligence agencies.

The Chinese platform TikTok is already banned from government systems and devices.

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