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Nvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controls


Nvidia said that Anthropic shouldn't tell 'tall tales' about AI chips being smuggled across borders, and should instead focus on innovation.

On Wednesday, Anthropic doubled down on its support for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion,” which would impose sweeping AI chip export restrictions starting May 15. “American firms should focus on innovation and rise to the challenge, rather than tell tall tales that large, heavy, and sensitive electronics are somehow smuggled in ‘baby bumps’ or ‘alongside live lobsters,’” a spokesperson for Nvidia told CNBC, in reference to Anthropic’s claims of how these AI chips are being smuggled into countries targeted by the U.S. controls, like China. Nvidia recently stated that a new licensing requirement for its H20 AI chips to be sold in China could cost the company $5.5 billion in Q1 of its 2026 fiscal year.

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