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Jake Roach

New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September

The autograph of Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., on Nvidia's GB300 NVL72 GPU at the Foxconn Technology Co. booth.

The Trump administration is considering a new AI export control that would close a loophole in current U.S. trade policy toward China, that being the PRC's access to advanced AI compute through remote servers in nearby countries, reports The Information. The rule, should it go into effect, would target remote access through Thailand and Singapore, which aren't subject to the same export controls as China. The Department of Commerce could share the rule with trade groups to gather feedback as early as September, according to the report.

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