Texas Governor Abbott banned specific AI platforms and apps tied to China on government devices, citing security against espionage and data harvesting by the CCP.

Texas ordered a ban on the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on government devices days after the popular chatbot has shook investors and the tech community.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) banned state officials from using Chinese-owned technology such as DeepSeek and RedNote on government devices Friday. “Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist ...

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Most of the presidential actions Trump has taken thus far don’t seem to relate to China directly. Yet all of them will impact the China-U.S. competition.

"Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our state’s critical infrastructure through data-harvesting AI and social media apps," Gov. Abbott said.

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Gov. Greg Abbott added six more AI and social media apps to the state’s prohibited technologies list that already included ...