“Banning DeepSeek’s own app and API is workable.”
DHS banned DeepSeek and anything “developed using” it, then never said what that means. Models distilled from DeepSeek? Gateways like OpenRouter that silently route to it? Nobody knows, including the people who have to comply. The bill to do this stalled in committee in February 2025. So they did it by memo, with vaguer language than the bill had.