The Trump administration is reportedly probing whether DeepSeek bought Nvidia’s advanced computer chips through Singapore – despite US export controls blocking the sale of the powerful technology to China-based firms. Key tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey, have been skeptical of DeepSeek’s claim that it trained an AI model on par with US rivals for less than $6 million and without Nvidia’s most powerful chips. Officials at the White House and the FBI are investigating whether DeepSeek may have acquired the banned chips from third parties in Singapore to get around the ban, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar...