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The Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint that aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI exports to allies, in a bid to maintain the American edge over China in the critical technology.
This is bad news for artists and media companies that want a say in how AI companies use their intellectual property.
Star founders, Beijing officials and deep-pocketed financiers converge on Shanghai by the thousands this weekend to attend China’s most important AI summit. At the top of the agenda: how to propel Beijing’s ambitions to leapfrog the US in artificial intelligence — and profit off that drive.
The president’s plan for an artificial intelligence-driven future has garnered backlash from allies who are disturbed by its tech bro-friendly proposals.
At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of Washington’s efforts to restrain Beijing’s high-tech ambitions.
In January, Trump rescinded a Biden executive order that focused on AI standards. The administration also gutted a Biden-era rule that would have limited the number of advanced U.S. chips many countries could import for data centers because of national-security concerns.
An AI Action Plan outlines steps to advance U.S. artificial intelligence innovation and infrastructure.trump-ai-plan-data-centers-semiconductors-us-infrastructure