House Panel Calls DeepSeek a Risk, Presses Nvidia Over Sales (1)

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a “profound threat” to US national security, a bipartisan House committee said, urging Nvidia Corp. to hand over information on sales of chips that the startup may have used to develop its breakthrough chatbot model.

The House Select Committee on China alleged in a report Wednesday that DeepSeek’s ties to Chinese government interests “are significant,” citing corporate filings obtained by the panel. Lawmakers claimed that DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, controls the firm alongside the High-Flyer Quant hedge fund in an “integrated ecosystem” linked to state-linked hardware distributors and Chinese research institute Zhejiang Lab. ...