Wednesday, 17 June, 2026
Cold War on Hold: US Pauses Blacklist for DeepSeek and 100 Chinese Tech Firms
By TechShots Studio
The Trump administration has delayed placing Chinese AI breakout DeepSeek, chipmaker CXMT, and over 100 other firms onto a federal trade blacklist, despite an interagency committee approving the bans last year. The freeze aims to avoid escalating economic tensions with Beijing. US officials have accused DeepSeek of backing Chinese military intelligence and using shell companies to illicitly siphon tech from American rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.