EXCLUSIVE — A new report from the American Security Project revealed “extensive” financial and political ties between DeepSeek, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool, and the Chinese Communist Party.

The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank, started in 2006 by former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, found DeepSeek is deeply intertwined with the CCP through “state-owned enterprises, military-linked technology suppliers and official state media narratives.”