A bipartisan House panel released a report Wednesday accusing DeepSeek of posing a “profound threat” to U.S. national security, alleging the Chinese AI startup harvests user data on behalf of the Chinese government,

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a “profound threat” to US national security, a bipartisan House committee said, urging Nvidia Corp. to hand over information on sales of chips that the startup may have used to develop its breakthrough chatbot model.

In a new report, the bipartisan House committee came to the unsurprising finding that DeepSeek sends user data back to China.