Despite the setback, China hardliners plan to keep pressing for tougher export controls on advanced AI hardware. They are preparing a new proposal — the so-called Secure and Feasible Exports Act — that would turn current limits on chip exports to China into permanent law, essentially only allowing American companies to ship cut-down version of their 2022 and 2023 products — which are on the verge to become largely irrelevant — to the People's Republic.
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blppt The sidelined proposal — known as the Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence Act of 2025 (GAIN AI Act) — would have mandated suppliers like AMD or Nvidia to prioritize American customers ahead of buyers in China and other arms-restricted countries. I mean, unless I'm missing something here, how exactly does one sell sidelining this as "America First"? Is the idea to sneak some backdoors into Nvidia silicon and get the Chinese to use them? Reply
ohio_buckeye Possibly. But the idea could also be for companies like nvidia to try to become the market standard in order to choke out competition from abroad to make it harder for competing tech to get a foothold. Reply
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