By Andrea Shalal, David Shepardson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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,

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.”

As Chinese AI application DeepSeek attracts hordes of American users, Trump administration officials, lawmakers and cybersecurity experts are expressing concern that the technology could pose a threat to U.