Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country ‘chose not to’ sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country 'chose not to' sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

Trump also said he discussed AI guardrails with Xi during the summit, describing them as "standard guardrails that we talk about all the time." U.S. officials had previewed the topic ahead of the trip, telling reporters the administration would explore opening a dedicated bilateral channel for regular AI discussions.

The White House last month also unveiled measures targeting distillation attacks, a practice in which Chinese AI developers are accused of extracting outputs from frontier U.S. models built by companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to train competing systems at lower cost.

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PEnns Hmmmm….it's a bummer when the whiplash export! / no-export! "policy" explodes in one's face! Maybe that's why Jen didn't get an invite till, literally, the last minute! Reply

warezme China doesn't need anyone at this point. Their technology sector may not be the top of everything but it has enough to support itself even at this stage and grow and develop independently as needed. China has numbers, influence and power that it can leverage to get what it needs one way or another. And a government that isn't lost in it's own tiny selfish agendas with no perspective of the global economy. Reply

jp7189 It also doesnt matter that their chips are 4x less efficient when they deploy power 10x faster. Reply

CelicaGT I can't find the heart to shed a single tear for anyone affected… Reply

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