Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n This is the latest example of a state government official banning technology from Chinese-owned companies in the name of security. Abbott’s ban restricts employees from using the companies’ “physical hardware, artificial intelligence and software” on state-owned devices and networks.<\/p>\n The Trump administration, which Abbott supports, has sought to rein in its own actions that could antagonize Beijing. The two countries reached a detente in a long-running trade and technology war in October.<\/p>\n Abbott’s ban covers Chinese drone maker Autel and products from Chinese artificial intelligence firm iFlyTek.<\/p>\n The companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.<\/p>\n Reporting by Courtney Rozen, Editing by Franklin Paul<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a> Courtney Rozen reports on the Trump administration’s transformation of federal agencies and government spending. She previously worked at Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Texas will bar its employees from using Shein, Alibaba and TP-Link hardware and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5932,8593,18044,5915,36233,5949,5951,7378,7375,26599,5943,7373,18042,36225,18045,5920,58927,5947,7357,5933,5923,5910,7370,26600,7379,7365,5925,5948,5929,302,27,29,28,5930,5935,393,5934],"class_list":["post-139564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-amers","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-cmpny","tag-cn","tag-destlita","tag-destodat","tag-destopub","tag-destousdnm","tag-destouspom","tag-destoustcm","tag-destoustpm","tag-easia","tag-ecomma","tag-emrg","tag-gen","tag-hk","tag-legal","tag-mtpix","tag-namer","tag-netsv","tag-nrlpaodat","tag-nrlpaopub","tag-packageus-politics","tag-packageus-top-news","tag-pol","tag-publ","tag-reuters-legal","tag-swit","tag-tech","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tmt","tag-topicworld-us-texas","tag-us","tag-usatx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Courtney](\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/https%3A%2F%2Fauthor-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub%2Freuters%2Fa5ee6454-ca45-4a48-a683-ba2c76b848a7.jpg?auth=215ed396f5fb6d71bb7811020ea364ef8108794cae9dc5b376fb342cac60ff3c&height=120&width=120&quality=80&smart=true\")
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