China’s success in artificial intelligence has the Trump administration and lawmakers weighing rules and investigations to slow Beijing’s progress in the industry.

The letter came after the panel released a report that said DeepSeek, which trained its model on Nvidia chips, posed a “profound threat” to US national security. Moolenaar said DeepSeek was a “weapon in the Chinese Communist party’s arsenal, designed to spy on Americans, steal our technology, and subvert US law”.