OpenAI sending the Trump White House a sweeping new policy proposal calling for a ban on Deepseek and others of what it calls PRC-based models.

And that's not all OpenAI is asking for.

Our dear Derbosa has more in today's tech check. Morning, Dee.

Hey, good morning, Carl. So we are starting to get a better picture of how the Trump administration will regulate tech. And so far, it seems like big tech gets still out, but AI could get a break, especially as China makes huge strides in the race. Now, it's something the Open AI team is no doubt tracking closer than anyone else. And so this new policy proposal,

it's seeking to use that nuance as an edge.

The 15-page proposal, it begins with a quote

from President Trump just earlier this year.

It is the policy of the United States

to sustain and enhance America's global dominance.

It then admits that DeepSeek shows that our lead

is not wide and is narrowing. The paper then argues that DeepSeek shows that our lead is not wide and is narrowing.

The paper then argues that DeepSeek and other PRC produced models should be banned to protect privacy and security risks.

Now, all of this comes amid reports that DeepSeek is rushing to release its next generation R2 model.

And reminder for our audience, there's a distinction here, deep seek

the app and deep seek the open source model, which are hosted by Microsoft, Amazon Perplexity,

many other American companies who can strip out the censorship and host it themselves because

it is open source. Now, OpenAI doesn't make that distinction in the paper. A fact that many Twitter users or ex-users called out online.

Now, there's other signs, too, that our American AI players are perhaps gauging the Trump

administration, seeing how far they will go to protect and, quote, strengthen America's

lead globally.

Open AI and Google, they are asking the administration

to make it easier for AI companies to learn from copyrighted material. It's a bold ask given

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