US Holds Off Blacklisting China's DeepSeek And Other Firms: Reuters The US has held ​off adding China’s AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to a trade blacklist, Reuters reportedas the Trump administration tries to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing. Recall that Anthropic claimed this year it identified a campaign by DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI ​labs to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI platform to improve their own models, and OpenAI warned lawmakers that DeepSeek also was targeting its models.(zerohedge)