Policy & safety · 21 October 2026
US orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
Federal civilian agencies must stop buying DeepSeek products and remove them from IT systems on national-security grounds; the order also covers third-party services built on DeepSeek technology, with exceptions by request.
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Selling to US government now means auditing whether any feature depends on DeepSeek-derived models.
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