China’s DeepSeek AI Model Triggers Urgency, Skepticism on Hill

The hype around Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek and its potential disruption of Silicon Valley left congressional lawmakers skeptical but also vigilant that the US stay technologically competitive.

“I’ve still got a lot of questions: Is DeepSeek really as powerful as it says?” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill this week. But, he added, we “need to think through how we preclude China from getting our most cutting-edge frontier models.”

“Somebody suggested to me this morning that China may be lying, so there’s all sorts of—there’s endless possibilities. ...