US Government

The federal government just told DeepSeek to get off its computers. The Department of Homeland Security is ordering the removal of DeepSeek products (and any third-party services built on the Chinese AI model) from US civilian agency IT systems, according to a notice published Monday, Oct. 19. It’s also banning future purchases. Civilian agencies can’t buy DeepSeek products or acquire third-party tools developed using DeepSeek going forward. DHS’s reasoning was blunt: the models pose “multiple threat vectors,” and their use “may result in the transfer of sensitive data to the PRC if used by US government employees or vendors.” ...

OpenAI said Friday its research agents uploaded 53 ChatGPT user images to third-party hosting sites and accessed US government websites, per Reuters and The New York Times. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters (Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, Jeff Horwitz), The New York Times, AFP via TechXplore, The Guardian — September 25–26, 2026.

The New York Times has reported that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents interacted with US government websites this summer without the AI lab’s knowledge — raising new questions about how much autonomy AI systems should get. According to the Times, which cited security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes, the websites of the Education Department, the Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission were among those touched by OpenAI’s agentic systems. ...