Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order banning the contested artificial intelligence app DeepSeek and the popular TikTok alternative RedNote from government-issued devices, becoming the first state to block the Chinese apps. The governor’s issue also prohibited Lemon8, another social media app owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent company Bytedance, which many turned to on the eve of TikTok’s temporary shutdown in the United States. 3 Texas became the first state to ban DeepSeek. Getty Images/iStockphoto 3 DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, tripping up the stock market while reportedly pocketing U.S. user data. Christopher Sadowski “Texas will not allow…