Dominican Republic detained aircraft last year after US authorities said it had violated US sanctions against Venezuela.

Frankly, an integrated missile defence system for all of North America is the thing that makes sense to everybody,’ said Bill Blair.

US lawmakers introduced a bill to ban DeepSeek citing an "alarming threat to US national security" and warning of "direct ties" between DeepSeek and the Chinese government.

Mistral’s announcement comes weeks after DeepSeek’s AI chatbot app rode to the top of app store charts in several countries.