The Trump administration plans to introduce new AI chip regulations to restrict remote access to advanced AI chip computing power resources.
According to The Information, the Trump administration is studying a new AI chip regulatory rule aimed at restricting access to compute resources from advanced U.S. AI chips through remote means. The report states that after Trump began his second term in 2025, the White House announced the revocation of the AI Diffusion Rule introduced during the Biden administration. Currently, a small team within the U.S. Department of Commerce is drafting a smaller, more targeted alternative designed to limit how geopolitical competitors access advanced AI chips via remote methods such as cloud computing.