US lawmakers are moving quickly to block DeepSeek on government devices after the Chinese-owned AI triggered security and privacy fears

Lawmakers in the House are proposing to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from U.S. government devices

Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not only poses a threat to US AI stocks;

In an effort to compete with DeepSeek's models, Google is also introducing a new and more cost-efficient AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite. The company claims that the model outperforms its predecessor but works at the same price and speed as the previous version.

One of the standout features of Gemini 2.0 Pro is its massive 2-million-token context window, which can process around 1.5 million words in a single session

The Google Gemini app now includes a reasoning model that shows its "thought process." On Wednesday, the tech giant announced the availability of Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental on Gemini's desktop and mobile versions.