{"id":147157,"date":"2025-01-30T23:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/pentagon-scrambles-to-block-deepseek-after-employees-connect-to-chinese-servers-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:49:23","slug":"pentagon-scrambles-to-block-deepseek-after-employees-connect-to-chinese-servers-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/pentagon-scrambles-to-block-deepseek-after-employees-connect-to-chinese-servers-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon scrambles to block DeepSeek after employees connect to Chinese servers | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeepSeek\u2019s terms of service <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.deepseek.com\/downloads\/DeepSeek%E9%9A%90%E7%A7%81%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">explicitly states<\/a> it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawinfochina.com\/display.aspx?id=23733&amp;lib=law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mandates<\/a> cooperation with the country\u2019s intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that didn\u2019t stop U.S. Department of Defense workers from getting caught up in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/30\/how-deepseek-changed-silicon-valleys-ai-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the DeepSeek hype<\/a> this week and connecting their work computers to Chinese servers, using the service for at least two days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-30\/pentagon-workers-used-deepseek-s-chatbot-for-days-before-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon has since started blocking DeepSeek on some of its network, although some employees could still access the service, according to Bloomberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. government is grappling with the national security implications of soaring interest in the Chinese AI chatbot, which has climbed to the top of both the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-displaces-chatgpt-as-the-app-stores-top-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-reaches-no-1-on-us-play-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play<\/a> stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 24, the U.S. Navy banned employees from accessing DeepSeek over security and ethical concerns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us-navy-restricts-use-of-deepseek-ai-imperative-to-avoid-using.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CNBC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/30\/pentagon-scrambles-to-block-deepseek-after-employees-connect-to-chinese-servers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek\u2019s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law \u2014 which mandates cooperation with the country\u2019s intelligence agencies. But that didn\u2019t stop U.S. Department of Defense workers from getting caught up in the DeepSeek hype this week and connecting their work computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}