2025-01-13
The Biden administration has unveiled its “AI diffusion rule,” which aims to restrict the export of GPUs that are most coveted for AI applications. Although it does not mention the nation by name, it's broadly viewed as a means to prevent China from outpacing the US in AI development.
The rule proposes three licensing tiers. The first tier is unrestricted and includes the domestic market as well as 18 strategic allies. The majority of countries fall into a second tier, which will have caps on how much compute power they can import via top GPUs from the US. T [...]
2025-07-28
After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of c [...]
2025-07-15
NVIDIA will be able to start selling its H20 AI GPU to China again soon after gaining approval to do so from the US government, the company announced in a blog post. Earlier this year, the company was [...]
2025-07-24
Financial Times is reporting that $1 billion worth of NVIDIA AI chips were smuggled into China in the three months after the Trump administration tightened semiconductor export controls. Citing sales [...]
2025-07-05
The US government is reportedly planning new restrictions on the export of AI chips to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to prevent suspected smuggling to China.<br /> The article US government plan [...]
2025-06-26
The rollout of Deepseek's R2 model has been pushed back, reportedly because US export restrictions have made Nvidia chips hard to come by in China.<br /> The article Deepseek's R2 is r [...]
2025-05-13
President Donald Trump's administration has undone one of the last regulations set by his predecessor. Today, the Department of Commerce rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule implemented by former Pres [...]
2025-05-08
The Trump administration is moving to overturn the Biden administration's AI chip export restrictions.<br /> The article Trump administration aims to scrap Biden-era AI chip export rules ap [...]