Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and several other states’ attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. Congressional leadership asking them to pass legislation that would ban DeepSeek

Jason Miyares cosigned a letter to Congressional leadership explaining how the Chinese AI software could pose a national security threat to the United States.

The U.S. Navy and NASA already prohibit personnel from installing DeepSeek’s app on work devices. Texas, New York and Virginia rolled out similar rules for state employees in recent weeks. In South Korea and Italy, meanwhile, privacy regulators have blocked app stores from offering DeepSeek to consumers.