Italy’s data protection authority has ordered a block on Chinese artificial intelligence revelation DeepSeek, it said late on Thursday.

China's DeepSeek AI chatbot refused to discuss topics like Tiananmen Square massacre, India-China relations, China-Taiwan relations, and other politically 'sensitive' issues, while providing a limited response on other related topics such as the Kashmir conflict,

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Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

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People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

At a supposed cost of just $6 million to train, DeepSeek’s new R1 model, released last week, was able to match the performance on several math and reasoning metrics by OpenAI’s o1 model – the outcome of tens of billions of dollars in investment by OpenAI and its patron Microsoft.

The rise in popularity of a high-performing and cheaply built Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model has shaken the confidence of investors, while raising larger questions about the future of

Chinese bloggers, state media and local citizens have welcomed DeepSeek's global success with pride and glee, with some saying the homegrown AI startup's meteoric rise is a sign China is beating back Washington's attempts to contain the country's tech industry.