Day after Trump calls DeepSeek as positive, US officials u-turn and classify it as IP theft

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump framed China’s DeepSeek AI as a “positive” development, the narrative flipped as authorities branded it a potential case of intellectual property theft. White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks now claims there is “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s models—a process he likened to […]