Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: 'standard guardrails that we talk about all the time'. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he and Xi Jinping discussed AI guardrails and Nvidia's H200 chips during the two-day Beijing summit, Bloomberg reported .
Applied Materials Inc. will pay $252.5 million to settle a US Commerce Department investigation into improper exports to China, ending a yearslong saga for the largest American supplier of chipmaking machinery. The agreement resolves allegations by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security that certain shipments to China between November 2020 and July 2022 didn't comply with export regulations, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
Instead of paralyzing China's AI sector, these controls have promoted domestic self-reliance. With no choice but to develop indigenous workarounds and architectural innovations, Chinese businesses are decoupling AI progress from sheer hardware volume. U.S. policies have undoubtedly bought time, but they have also ushered in a parallel innovation ecosystem totally independent of Western influence.
An NDP MP is calling on the government to take action to stop Canadian businesses from having any dealings with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Heather McPherson posted a letter she penned to Prime Minister Mark Carney on X Thursday, saying that the government should consider a number of actions against Canadian companies that have business with the agency.
Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., sent a letter Thursday to NSF interim director Brian Stone asking the agency to revoke China-linked entities' access to the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support - or ACCESS - program, according to a copy of the missive first seen by Nextgov/FCW. ACCESS is a free, nationwide collection of supercomputing systems made available to academics and other researchers. It's frequently used across U.S. institutions and national labs to assist with national security and economic research.
In what appears to be a case of diplomatic mind games in action, one day after the US government issued a regulation clearing the way for Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence processors to Chinese companies on a case-by-case basis, a published report has revealed Chinese custom officers have been told not to let them into the country. The ruling announced Monday by the US commerce department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),
When Benchmark led a financing round for Manus earlier this year, the investment sparked immediate controversy. U.S. Senator John Cornyn complained about the deal on X, and the investment prompted inquiries from the U.S. Treasury Department around new rules restricting American investment in Chinese AI companies. The concerns were significant enough to spur Manus's eventual relocation from Beijing to Singapore part of what drove the company's step-by-step disentanglement from China, as one Chinese professor described it on WeChat this past weekend.
In 2022, Jake Sullivan, then national security adviser under President Joe Biden and a powerful figure in the White House's foreign policy team, assembled an interagency planning exercise out of the Situation Room: What were all the possible circumstances and outcomes of an AI arms race between the US and China - from trade wars to real wars, possibly even the arrival of AGI - and how would the federal government respond?
Nicholas J. Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, said: "These chips are the building blocks of AI superiority and are integral to modern military applications. The country that controls these chips will control AI technology; the country that controls AI technology will control the future." Ganjei's stark warning to anyone plotting to send Nvidia's top end chips to China came as US President Donald Trump gave the green light to Nvidia to ship its H200 parts to China,
