DeepSeek, the Chinese AI research lab that rattled U.S. markets Monday through claims that its latest model uses less advanced computer chips while still performing comparatively with OpenAI, likely sends more data to China than TikTok, according to a new report.

“It shouldn’t take a panic over Chinese AI to remind people that most companies in the business set the terms for how they use your private data,” according to John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, reports Wired on Tuesday. “When you use their services, you’re doing work for them, not the other way around.”

Wired reports that its review of the DeepSeek website’s underlying activity shows the company is sending data to Chinese tech giant Baidu, likely for web analytics, and to Voices, a Chinese internet infrastructure company.

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