The U.S. Commerce Department is looking into whether DeepSeek - the Chinese company whose AI model's performance rocked the tech world - has been using U.S. chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China,

For a slew of AI chip companies chomping to dethrone Nvidia, DeepSeek is the opening they’ve been waiting for.

DeepSeek has raised questions about the effectiveness of US chip restrictions that aim to curtail China’s tech development. Now, the White House and the FBI are trying to determine if DeepSeek managed to buy advanced Nvidia chips through middlemen in Singapore to bypass those limits,

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Karen Freifeld and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang discussed DeepSeek - the Chinese company whose AI model's performance rocked the tech world - and tightening AI chip exports during their meeting at the White House on Friday,

The meeting comes amid broad anxiety about the success of a Chinese artificial intelligence app called DeepSeek.