DHS orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and tools built on it
Original title: The US orders every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it
Order 2026-01, signed July 24 and published in October, bars purchases immediately and excludes military systems.
The Department of Homeland Security ordered every federal civilian agency to stop buying Hangzhou DeepSeek products and to remove them, plus third-party tools developed using DeepSeek implementations. The order cites China-based servers, data collection, and possible model flaws, using public sources rather than a stated case of government data reaching DeepSeek. National security systems are excluded. Agencies may request written exceptions within 60 days, which CISA reviews.
Unconfirmed: DeepSeek has not commented, and the order does not describe a confirmed case of government data reaching DeepSeek.
- The notice is docket DHS-2026-0628 and was due in the Federal Register on October 20.
- The order does not list covered third-party products or how US-hosted models should be treated.
- Until removal, agencies must monitor traffic, increase logging, and flag unusual activity.
- Italy, Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia had already restricted DeepSeek on government devices.
- Products
- DeepSeek
- Organizations
- Department of Homeland SecurityCISA
- Countries
- United StatesChina
- AI models
- DeepSeek Flash
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Markwayne Mullin in his official US Senate portrait, taken before he became Homeland Security Secretary. Image: United States Senate / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, cropped The US government has ordered every federal civilian agency to strip DeepSeek out of its computers and stop buying it, along with any third-party product built on the Chinese lab's AI.
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