Being the first nation to outlaw DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot that has rapidly become well-known throughout the world, Italy has shown courage.

Wiz, a cloud security firm, says it has uncovered a massive data exposure involving Chinese AI company DeepSeek.

DeepSeek’s surprise superstardom has ignited a firestorm of data concerns globally, with regulators and privacy experts sounding alarms over the Chinese AI app’s potential national security risks.