Texas Governor, Greg Abbott has banned the AI chatbot DeepSeek for state-issued devices, sighting data privacy and national security concerns.

Texas has banned the use of DeepSeek, RedNote, Lemon8, and a few Chinese stock-trading apps from government devices.

American users have been migrating in droves to Xiaohongshu – a Chinese social media platform known as RedNote in English – ...

Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced a ban on Chinese social media apps RedNote and Lemon8 and artificial intelligence app ...

The Chinese app Rednote exploded in popularity around the time of Tiktok’s short ban, promoting cultural exchange, but it ...

The Chinese startup and its new chatbot seem on track to surpass the popularity of U.S.-based AI companies such as OpenAI’s ...

Some creators are also flocking to other foreign platforms as well. RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China, was the top free ...

In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which offered a similar experience to their favorite short-form video app. The app, which is ...

During that period, Americans flocked to Xiaohongshu as both a TikTok alternative and a form of protest against the crackdown ...

Rednote has gained millions of US users as TikTokers, outraged by the US government’s banning of the app, flock to the Chinese-owned TikTok-like app. The app had 3.4 million active daily users ...