Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced an investigation into Chinese technology company DeepSeek over security concerns about the startup’s privacy practices with its artificial intelligence platform.

Paxton’s top concern is DeepSeek’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party, which requires the country’s corporations to share data if requested.

In addition to notifying DeepSeek that its platform violates the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Paxton asked Google and Apple for documents concerning DeepSeek’s chatbot application.

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