US chip curbs put Australia in AI inner circle


Australia is one of a select few countries exempt from sweeping new controls to limit the export of US-developed advanced computing chips and sharing of closed-weight AI models as the AI arms race heats up.

The outgoing Biden Administration announced the rules on Monday in an 11th-hour bid to bolster AI hegemony, leading to immediate protest from chipmaker and AI kingpin NVIDIA, as well as the European Commission.

But the fresh curbs, which are not expected to come into effect for another 120 days, could be short lived, with president-elect Donald Trump set to take office in less than a week.

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