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Benedict Collins

The US almost blacklisted DeepSeek for contributing to China’s military and intelligence — but the White House held back to avoid escalating tensions

A conceptual image featuring Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping on a screen, with undulating stocks and a dollar bill in the background.
  • DeepSeek was recommended to be added to the US Entity List
  • The company was accused of assisting Chinese military and intelligence
  • White House avoided blacklisting companies ahead of Trump China visit

Despite claims from Anthropic that Chinese AI firm DeepSeek distilled its Claude model to improve their own models, and further evidence that DeepSeek supported Chinese military and intelligence operations, the US has held back on adding the firm to the Entity List.

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