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Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China but lacks key details


The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions.

The first calls on government organizations, including the Department of Commerce and National Security Council, to work with the AI industry on chip location verification features. For instance, the Trump administration has contradicted itself multiple times on its export restriction strategy in the past few months — including just last week. Any executive order regarding chip export restrictions will likely be about getting the proper government departments together to figure out a path forward, as opposed to formal guidelines, quite yet.

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