{"id":1235570,"date":"2025-02-27T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235570"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:16:15","slug":"trump-should-block-bidens-ai-gift-to-china-microsoft-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235570","title":{"rendered":"Trump should block Biden\u2019s AI \u201cgift\u201d to China, Microsoft argues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft is pushing the Trump administration to change last-minute export controls implemented by Joe Biden on his way out of office that were largely designed to limit access to advanced AI chips so that less surplus could find its way into the hands of China or other foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n

Considered critical for US national security, the AI Diffusion rule<\/a> divides the world into three tiers. At the top are countries that can access US-made AI chips without restrictions, including key chip ally Taiwan and 17 other countries. Access is completely restricted for about 20 countries in the bottom tier, including China, Russia, and North Korea. But stuck in the middle tier are 150 countries that must endure artificial limits on computing supply chains that are kept at least a generation behind US technology accessible by the top tier.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday blog<\/a>, Microsoft President Brad Smith warned that the rule will hurt US businesses by placing heavy restrictions on some of America’s “friends”\u2014including countries like Switzerland, Poland, Greece, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. He cautioned that the rule makes “uncertain” their “ability to buy more American AI chips in the future,” and this will inevitably force US allies to seek supply chains outside the US. And “it\u2019s obvious where they will be forced to turn” if Trump doesn’t intervene, Smith suggested.<\/p>\n

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