US lawmakers urge White House to ditch Biden's AI chip rule

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Last Friday (April 11), seven Republican senators wrote to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, urging the Trump administration to withdraw the third-level control measures on artificial intelligence (AI) chips issued by the Biden administration at the last minute of its term, which will take effect on May 15, and adopt alternative measures to prevent China from obtaining such chips. According to Reuters, the senators called for a revision of…

US lawmakers urge White House to ditch Biden's AI chip rule

Seven Republican US senators have sent a letter to US Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, urging him to scrap a Biden administration rule restricting global access to AI chips before it kicks in next month. The letter, signed by senators Pete Ricketts, Tommy Tuberville and Thom Tillis, argues that the AI diffusion rule will damage US leadership in artificial intelligence and calls for “immediate action” to halt it before it takes effect on May 15…