DeepSeek shot to the top of the app-store charts—and triggered a brutal stock market selloff—last week. But the Chinese artificial-intelligence chatbot could soon face the same fate as TikTok. Lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill Thursday that would block the app from government-owned devices,

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has introduced legislation to ban federal employees from using the Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing national security concerns and the potential for data misuse by Beijing.