Last week, we reported on Democrat congressman Bill Foster's plans to introduce a bill that requires manufacturers of AI processors, like those in Nvidia GPUs, to implement tech that allows the US government to track where they end up. Well, it looks like the Senate didn't want to be outdone, because less than 24 hours later Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas announced the Chip Security Act, his own bill requiring AI hardware manufacturers to allow for geotracking of those all-so-important chips (via Tom'sHardware).
The press release announcing Cotton's bill, which says the legislation will keep American hardware from "falling into the hands of adversaries like Communist China," uses the word "chips" nine times. That's how you know it's serious.
