Biden Administration Looks to Close Loophole Allowing Chinese Access to US AI Chips
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Biden administration considering closing loophole allowing Chinese companies' overseas units access to US AI chips. This could be included in upcoming restrictions.
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In initial restrictions, overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies still had access to banned AI chips, allowing them to be smuggled into China.
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US struggling to cut China off from top AI tech as it's difficult to police transactions of chips purchased legally by Chinese employees abroad.
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Nearly all AI chips used by Chinese military sourced from US companies like Nvidia, Xilinx, Intel.
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US also looking into how to address access to US cloud computing services, which provide same AI capabilities as chips, by Chinese parties abroad.
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