Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of US rivals called "distillation."

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.

This week the U.S. tech sector was routed by the Chinese launch of DeepSeek, and Sen. Josh Hawley is putting forth legislation to prevent that from happening again.

U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, while President Donald Trump's crypto czar said it was possible that intellectual property theft could have been at play.

China's DeepSeek, a ChatGPT competitor reportedly built for just $6 million, has sent shockwaves and challenged assumptions about AI development costs.

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and an author of Rebooting.AI, told Newsweek: "Nobody has landed on the moon yet, or will they soon, but China has basically caught up to the U.S. in the flawed and faddish techniques of generative AI."

DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips.

CNBC’s Kate Rooney and OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil join 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's new initiatives and government partnerships, his thoughts on China's DeepSeek AI development,

The framework would divide the world into AI “haves” and “have nots,” based on their willingness to align with the U.S. against China.