U.S. Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI

Overview

• The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal agencies to remove any DeepSeek artificial‑intelligence technology from their systems, a directive that covers affiliates and third‑party products built on DeepSeek tools.
• DHS justified the action by pointing to DeepSeek servers in China and the Chinese legal system’s broad authority to access company infrastructure, saying those factors raise the risk of sensitive data transfer.
• Accenture and Google have announced a joint offering to place engineering teams inside agencies to build and deploy AI agents quickly using Google’s Gemini models as the underlying platform.
• Agencies now face immediate procurement choices: they must audit and strip prohibited DeepSeek elements from workflows while deciding whether to adopt embedded commercial teams to avoid project delays.
• The moves reflect a broader U.S. pattern of supply‑chain and national‑security scrutiny of foreign AI and are likely to push federal buying toward domestic platform providers and systems integrators.