The US government is considering a ban on DeepSeek's app on government devices due to concerns about data processing and privacy.DeepSeek gained popularity with its release of DeepSeek-R1, a large language model optimized for reasoning.The ban is primarily focused on DeepSeek's ChatGPT-like chatbot app for consumers.Discussions are also underway to potentially limit the distribution of DeepSeek models and placing restrictions on US cloud providers.