Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk

Tom GerkenTechnology reporterGetty ImagesAustralia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices and systems over what it says is the security risk the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup poses.DeepSeek stunned the world in January when it unveiled a chatbot which matched the performance level of US rivals, while claiming it had a much lower training cost.Billions of dollars were wiped off stock…