Moolenaar AI chip export idea eyed cautiously; groups await ‘diffusion rule’ successor

Early reactions to a proposal from House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) for how to control artificial intelligence chip exports to China include praise from a tech group that also urges the Trump administration to act quickly on a replacement for the Biden-era “AI diffusion” rule, while security advocates are renewing calls for strict prohibitions on such sales. “Attempting to engender a long-term, easily controllable dependency that China desperately wants to avoid is unlikely...