A bipartisan House panel released a report Wednesday accusing DeepSeek of posing a “profound threat” to U.S. national security, alleging the Chinese AI startup harvests user data on behalf of the Chinese government,

In a new report, the bipartisan House committee came to the unsurprising finding that DeepSeek sends user data back to China.

A bipartisan House committee said today that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek Ltd. represents a “profound threat” to America’s national security, accusing it of serving as an “open-source intelligence asset” that funnels data on U.S. users back to China.