Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has banned artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from all government devices over fears the Chinese-developed ChatGPT competitor is a national security risk.
The move was made after national security agencies determined DeepSeek posed an unacceptable risk to government technology.
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