U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, while President Donald Trump's crypto czar said it was possible that intellectual property theft could have been at play.

President Donald Trump said Jan. 27 that DeepSeek’s release “should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win.”