Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot. The authority,

Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data. DeepSeek could not be accessed on Wednesday in Apple or Google app stores in Italy,

DeepSeek is a new artificial intelligence chatbot that’s sending shock waves through Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Washington. The app, named after the Chinese start-up that built it, rocketed to the top of Apple’s App Store in the United States over the weekend.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CFO Susan Li spoke of the benefits of DeepSeek's flagship AI model to its company in a leaked all-hands.

The cofounder and CEO of Meta doubled down on plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure as China's DeepSeek raises questions about the costs of the AI arm's race.