Just one day after banning DeepSeek in South Korea, officials said the AI chatbot, developed by a China-based startup shared user data with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok.

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One day after banning DeepSeek in South Korea, officials said the AI chatbot, shared user data with ByteDance.

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