Bipartisan bill seeks to ban Chinese AI from federal agencies, as U.S. vows to win the AI race

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday vowed to keep Chinese artificial intelligence systems out of federal agencies while pledging to ensure the U.S. will prevail against China in the global AI competition. The hearing on Capitol Hill comes about five months after a Chinese technology start-up called DeekSeek introduced an AI model that rivaled platforms from OpenAI in performance, but cost only a fraction to build. This raised concerns that China was catching up to U.S. despite trade restrictions. In another legislative step, Republican and Democratic lawmakers in both the House and the Senate on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban Chinese AI systems in the federal government.