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House advances bill to bar DeepSeek and similar foreign AI from state devices
Summary
Lawmakers approved an amended House Bill 23 13 restricting the use of the AI platform DeepSeek and similar platforms tied to specified foreign entities on state devices and networks, after adopting a narrower amendment to avoid banning web browsers.
Representative Hohisler, the bill sponsor, told the Kansas House that House Bill 23 13 would prohibit the use of the artificial-intelligence platform DeepSeek — which he described as having ties to China Mobile and storing user data on servers in China — on state-owned devices and state networks.
Supporters argued the platform raises national-security and data-privacy risks. “DeepSeek has direct ties to China Mobile,” Hohisler said on the floor, and “its terms of service…
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