DHS orders US civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek
Original title: DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies
The order also covers affiliate products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek, a phrase critics call undefined.
The US Department of Homeland Security on Monday ordered federal civilian agencies not to use Chinese AI lab DeepSeek and to remove existing implementations. The order covers all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products and third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations. Defense networks, the Navy, NASA, and the House had already restricted DeepSeek after DeepSeek-R1’s early 2025 release. Katie Moussouris of Luta Security said banning DeepSeek’s app and API is workable, but the third-party wording is not practical to verify and goes beyond data flowing to servers in China.
Unconfirmed: The order does not define whether developed using covers API access, derived models, or code written with DeepSeek.
- A 2025 No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act never left committee.
- DISA began blocking DeepSeek on Pentagon networks in January 2025.
- NIST found DeepSeek more vulnerable to prompt injection and easier to jailbreak than US models.
- OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway can route requests to DeepSeek by default.
- 1.Federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek, affiliate products, and covered third-party implementations.
- Vendors
- DeepSeek
- Countries
- United StatesChina
- AI models
- DeepSeek-R1
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