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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

South Korea becomes latest country to ban DeepSeek

South Korea has become the latest country to introduce a ban of the popular Chinese AI app DeepSeek over data protection concerns.

It follows significant pushback against the chatbot, which overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to become the most popular AI app in the US last month.

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