Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot.

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. The authority, known as Garante,

ROME (Reuters) - The Chinese artifical intelligence application DeepSeek was not available on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy. A notice to customers on iPhone's App Store said the app was "currently not available in the country or area you are in."

The DeepSeek app is no longer available in the Italian App Store and Google Play Store. Yesterday, an Italian news agency, ANSA, reported that the DeepSeek app was no longer avail