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.

David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model.

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.”

Leavitt told reporters in her first White House press briefing that Trump also is still "very much" considering fresh tariffs on China for Saturday. Shortly after taking office last week, Trump set a Feb.

U.S. President Donald Trump still plans to slap Canada and Mexico with steep tariffs on Saturday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt says. Leavitt told reporters at the White House that she spoke with Trump on Monday night and he indicated Feb.