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The Biden administration is reportedly weighing new limits in the ongoing US-China trade war, which would ban high-end AI accelerators to adversary nations and impose restrictions on AI models for others. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reports the new rules, which could come as early as Friday — 10 days before president- …

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  1. Gene Cash Silver badge

    Limit AI exports?

    Why wouldn't you want to handicap all the other countries by sending them AI?

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  2. Michael

    win for all

    US finally making a move to reduce the global carbon footprint of data centres.

    Or more likely increasing non US based competition in the long term. Which is also a good thing.

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  3. Rich 2 Silver badge

    PLEASE ban it all

    I think all American AI products should be blocked completely from the rest of the world, especially anything to do with MS, Faecesbook, Googlies or Amazon.

    For the sake of the kids/self-interest/whatever of course.

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  4. Tron Silver badge

    Amusing.

    I wasn't aware that Taiwan was a US state. It's economy may do better under China if the US bans any more of its products.

    Still, if that's the plan than perhaps Presidents Biden, Trump and Musk could ban AI from leaving the US in all forms. Starting with AI PCs and all the AI crud produced by GAFA. We can all happily continue using versions of Browsers, OSs, and PCs with all the AI removed. The US can build a wall in cyberspace and trash itself with AI. Sounds good to me.

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    1. Rafael #872397
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      Re: The US can build a wall in cyberspace...

      ...and make the AI pay for it!

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    2. martinusher Silver badge
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      Re: Amusing.

      Per the Constitution Mr. Musk cannot become President, he's not a "natural born citizen" of the US. But not to worry, he can't become President but he and his ilk can certainly buy one.

      It was said of the US years ago that "We've got the best democracy money can buy".

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  5. harrys Bronze badge

    The more the US isolates itself from the rest of the world the better for the rest of the world i say, especially now with the total bojo's that will be coming in soon :)

    Whats really really surprising is how previously uk residing register journo's prefer living there!

    says it all really

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    1. martinusher Silver badge
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      >uk residing register journo's prefer living there!

      Not just 'register journos'. The reason why its OK to live here is that, like Space, "Its a big place, a really big place" which unlike other really, really, big places it has a quite reasonable climate and the locals mostly speak understandable English. Like anywhere else there are drawbacks but if you keep your head down and make an attempt to get on with the neighbors it's just fine.

      The only snag from a 'Register' perspective is that its not the center of the technological universe that it used to be. This article, like a lot we see these days, is all about 'countering China' or, more accurately, 'countering competition'. Like with anything else if you're Top Dog then this position isn't guaranteed in perpetuity, you're just the team to beat. After all, its only an accident of history that means we're not reading "Das Register" -- up to the 1930s the primary language of science and technology was German (and if we don't sort ourselves out its going to be 登记册 ).

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