Queensland and Western Australia have become the latest state governments to ban the use of DeepSeek on government devices. The moves come as a response to a directive issued by Canberra banning federal public servants from accessing and installing the China-developed artificial intelligence app over national security concerns.

China has hit back at the Australian government’s banning of DeepSeek on all public sector devices, labelling it “ideological discrimination”.

China has reacted with fury after the Australian government moved to ban the controversial Chinese AI company DeepSeek from all of its government systems and devices on national security grounds.