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AI Daily Brief — 07 February 2025

Friday delivered a bipartisan US House move against DeepSeek and the close of Sam Altman’s whirlwind Asia tour. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Darin LaHood (R-IL) introduced H.R.1121 — the “No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act” — directing OMB to develop standards to remove DeepSeek from federal agency IT within 60 days, citing CCP data-sharing risks via China Mobile linkages. Altman wrapped Tokyo, Seoul, New Delhi, Dubai, and a Berlin TU panel stop ahead of Paris. South Korean ministries kept expanding DeepSeek access blocks. AI Action Week opened formally in Paris with Science Days at Institut Polytechnique.

Top stories

  • House introduces “No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act” (H.R.1121). Bipartisan Gottheimer-LaHood bill directs OMB to develop standards to remove DeepSeek from federal agency IT within 60 days. Press release cites research showing DeepSeek code links to China Mobile (FCC-banned) and CCP data-sharing capability. via Congress.gov · via Gottheimer office
  • Altman wraps Asia tour ahead of Paris. Tour leg recap: Feb 3 Tokyo (SoftBank JV), Feb 4 Seoul (Builder Lab + Kakao), Feb 5 New Delhi (closed-door meetings with Modi, Minister Vaishnaw, Paytm/ixigo/Snapdeal founders), Feb 7 Berlin TU panel. Tour framed as a rush to counter DeepSeek and shore up Stargate backing. via Business Standard
  • German Chancellor Scholz confirmed for Paris Summit. Bundeskanzleramt confirmed travel to the AI Action Summit at Macron’s invitation, including the EU heads-of-state dinner. Scholz would urge EU companies to unite behind “AI made in Europe.” via Bundeskanzler.de
  • South Korean ministries expand DeepSeek block. After the Feb 4-5 Industry/Defense/Foreign/Trade access restrictions, more agencies block access pending privacy review through Feb 7. Formal app-store removal would follow Feb 15-17. via Korea Herald
  • AI Action Week Science Days open in Paris. The International AI, Science and Society Conference convened at Institut Polytechnique de Paris on Feb 6-7 as the academic-track opening of AI Action Week, immediately before the Feb 10-11 Grand Palais Summit co-chaired by Macron and Modi. via Élysée

Who shipped

No frontier-lab releases. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, and Mistral all silent on the product side. The Kakao deal from Feb 4 and the Le Chat mobile launch from Feb 6 kept reverberating.

Open-source pulse

DeepSeek API capacity-strain pause continued. Hugging Face’s Open-R1 effort kept building toward Update #2. No new Chinese open-weight releases dated Feb 7.

By the numbers

  • 60 days — H.R.1121’s OMB standard-setting window
  • 5 countries on Altman’s completed Asia tour
  • 4 Korean ministries restricting DeepSeek
  • Most-mentioned target: DeepSeek

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 7 February 2025.