When asked whether Trump found DeepSeek’s origins or costs concerning and if China’s ability to develop AI models faster and cheaper could impact US strategy on data centres,

White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is a wakeup call for the AI industry in America. She says President Donald Trump will restore America's AI dominance.

The economic hardware/software debate about China just got more complicated. Before DeepSeek flipped the script on the artificial intelligence game, many economists worried China had way too much of the former and not enough of the latter.

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation." The technique,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.