Trump Administration Scraps Biden's AI Chip Export Controls (techcrunch.com) 70
The Department of Commerce officially rescinded the Biden administration's Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule on Tuesday, just days before its May 15 implementation date. The rule would have imposed first-ever export restrictions on U.S.-made AI chips to dozens of countries while tightening existing controls on China and Russia.
Instead of implementing blanket restrictions, the DOC signaled a shift toward direct country-by-country negotiations. The department released interim guidance reminding companies that using Huawei's Ascend AI chips anywhere violates U.S. export rules and warned about consequences of allowing U.S. chips to train AI models in China. Commerce Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffery Kessler criticized the previous administration's approach, calling it "ill-conceived and counterproductive."
Instead of implementing blanket restrictions, the DOC signaled a shift toward direct country-by-country negotiations. The department released interim guidance reminding companies that using Huawei's Ascend AI chips anywhere violates U.S. export rules and warned about consequences of allowing U.S. chips to train AI models in China. Commerce Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffery Kessler criticized the previous administration's approach, calling it "ill-conceived and counterproductive."
Double-talk (Score:4, Insightful)
warned about consequences of allowing U.S. chips to train AI models in China.
If you're not going to blanket stop exporting chips, allowing select countries to buy chips is the loophole China will use to get those chips.
Re:Double-talk [by AI chips?] (Score:1)
Can't figure out what point you were trying to make in your FP. Care to try again?
Recommended reading response? Perhaps Chip Wars to see why China has decided on the high-level strategy of favoring homegrown chips. The real question then becomes something to do with Taiwan and the answer probably involves drones. LOTS of drones.
I was actually looking for some kind of "Biden bad" joke, perhaps along the lines of "But how can the YOB continue to blame the Biden for all the bad stuff that is happening after
Re: Double-talk [by AI chips?] (Score:1)
Re:Double-talk [by AI chips?] (Score:5, Funny)
The plane grift is actually a bit worse. DoD will have to trick out the plane for security. That means stripping it down and rebuilding it more or less to make sure those nice Qataris haven't infested it with bugs, or maybe Vlad the Impaler will help them. And rebuilding will require the latest in comms gear because this is the airborne command center for the president.....well, in this case, alleged president.
Then el Bunko plans to run off with the plane to Florida. That doesn't stop him from describing it now as gift to DoD.
By the way, his take starting from 20 Jan. 2025 is $2.8 Billion. I guess he isn't tired of winning just yet. el Bunko thinks he's going to take it with him. The scene, el Bunko goes titsup and reaches the Pearly Gates:
St. Pete: Who the hell are you?
la Presidenta: But you know me!! I'm the Baby Christian, or whatever the gormless Christian preacher called me. Surely he told you I was coming.
St. Pete: Hang on a minute.
St. Pete pulls out iPhone and dials God.
God: God here, what can I do you for?
St. Pete: Guy here says he's the Baby Christian. Know'im?
God: Errrr....no, can't say as I do. Give Beelzebub a ringy-dingy, maybe he does.
St. Pete dials Beelzebub.
Beelzebub....(I want some hot stuff baby this evening, hot stuff baby tonight...). Beelzebub here, waddya want?
St. Pete: Hey Beelz, how are they hanging?
Beelz: Like two school girls excited about the prom, I've taught them how to skip rope. Wanna see?
St. Pete: I gotta see this, but maybe later. Say, we got a guy calling himself the Baby Christian, know'im?
Beelz: Oh him, I couldn't figure out where we left him. How'd he get up there?
St. Pete: The usual way.
Beelz: Well, keep him. We don't want his sort down here.
St. Pete: You do know you are running Hell, right?
Beelz: No, damnit, we don't want him, he gives the nuns the collywobbles. They think he'll introduce them to Jeffrey Epstein.
St. Pete: He cannot stay here, we gotta send him somewhere.
Beelz: Errrmmmm.....purgatory?
St. Pete: Genius!! Okay Baby, follow Jesus, he'll take you to your final destination.
Jesus: Follow me, and lose the bags.
la Presidenta: But, but, but, I need all this, it is my security blankie.
Jesus: Okay, take them with you. You'll enter Heaven when you pass your test.
la Presienta: Hot damn! Let's go!!
Jesus leads him off, deposits him, and comes back.
St. Pete: What's his test?
Jesus: He has to give all the loot he brought with him to the poor.
St. Pete: Bwahshahahaha.....You are a cruel man, Jesus. Well, I guess we won't be seeing him for awhile.
Jesus: Ya, I've made a reservation for him in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.* 5 bucks says he's late.
St. Pete: I'm not betting you. You rooked me on Billy Graham. Has he found a way to love his fellow man yet?
Jesus: Not exactly. He's still working on L of LGBTQ.
*Thanks Douglas Adams
Give China the damn high tech jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Let's work in a shoe factory instead. Bring back farmworker and shoe factory jobs! There's nothing like the amazing feeling of satisfaction you get from gluing a shoe sole to its upper, like 1000 times a day. Who wants to sit at a computer all day writing code or drawing rectangles on a screen?
Re:Give China the damn high tech jobs (Score:5, Informative)
Let's work in a shoe factory instead. Bring back farmworker and shoe factory jobs! There's nothing like the amazing feeling of satisfaction you get from gluing a shoe sole to its upper, like 1000 times a day. Who wants to sit at a computer all day writing code or drawing rectangles on a screen?
I know you're being sarcastic, but that's exactly the kind of thing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is saying. ... [yahoo.com] (and other sources) :
From Howard Lutnick Says Army Of Millions Will Build iPhones In The US
"The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones — that kind of thing is going to come to America," Lutnick said.
Sounds like fun, satisfying work. /s
Re:Give China the damn high tech jobs (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, Lutnick does like to say "the quiet part out loud". It pretty clearly demonstrates how all those billionaires on the Trump Cabinet view "the little people".
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In a cabinet packed with clowns, Lutnick might have the biggest clownshoes of them all. And that's really saying something with the poodle pumper DHS secretary and WhiskeyLeaks in attendance.
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Re:Give China the damn high tech jobs (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Give China the damn high tech jobs (Score:5, Interesting)
You gotta look at it from the perspective of the average Fox News viewer, though. Jokes about not being able to get one's head that far up their ass aside, there's been a narrative pushed for quite awhile now that there's a significant number of deadbeats mooching off of government assistance. They're not expecting you or I to take these jobs, they're expecting the supposed "welfare queens" and other various layabouts to take up these menial jobs as a means of gainful employment. They then expect that this would result in a reduction of tax money spent on social services.
The reality is though, these jobs wouldn't pay well and would still likely end up subsidized by government income assistance programs. Like as it's done in China.
Theater. Business as usual. (Score:1)
Re:Theater. Business as usual. (Score:5, Insightful)
Bothsides!
What an intellectually bankrupt take. One side is throwing the rule of law out of the 25th story window. The other actually followed the law.
One side limited GPU sales in order to create a tech barrier to AI advancement in adversarial countries. The other just removed that tech barrier.
Stop trying to act like this is business as usual, because it's most definitely not, and you just look like a moron for saying it is.
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Did you really just try to say that the standard of living, or life expectancy has not risen in the US in 300 years while calling me a moron?!
Average life expectancy in 1800 in the US was around 40 years. That was 225 years ago. You're a fucking idiot.
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The other actually followed the law
Tell that to Assange or anyone else that threatened the uniparty.
Meeting notes (Score:5, Insightful)
Instead of implementing blanket restrictions, the DOC signaled a shift toward direct country-by-country negotiations.
"Welcome, let's get the meeting started. What have you guys got to offer in return for our AI tech?
We're already full up on luxury 747s, so it would have to be something else."
Re:Meeting notes (Score:5, Insightful)
If Obama had accepted a 747 jet as a gift from a middle eastern country there would have been an impeachment vote that same day.
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To be fair, this would be also true for any previous president, no matter the party. But the current republican base is a qult.
Re:Meeting notes (Score:5, Insightful)
It appears we no longer have a president, we have a king.
Re:Meeting notes (Score:5, Insightful)
No, we still have a President. He's just openly corrupt as fuck.
What we don't have is a functional legislative branch capable of executing their government oversight responsibilities. If we did, there would be articles of impeachment being voted on, and Senators from his own party telling him to resign or be convicted and expelled, like Republicans did with Nixon.
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A president immune from law. What is that called?
"What we don't have is a functional legislative branch capable of executing their government oversight responsibilities. If we did, there would be articles of impeachment being voted on, and Senators from his own party telling him to resign or be convicted and expelled, like Republicans did with Nixon."
Well sure, but Republicans also made it very clear post-Nixon that they were going to fix that, and they did. And the corruption of Republicans generally doe
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No, you have a dictator. Literally, a person who rules by dictate. That's what all those executive orders are.
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They're directions to the executive branch. They don't set law, they don't override law, and they have no force outside of the constitutional powers of the office.
Every single President has pushed those bounds with their orders to their departments.
This isn't a defense of Trump, but can we please stop skullfucking the language so that when a day comes that we have actual Rule by Diktat, we can fucking recognize it for what it is? Thanks.
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Executive orders are not "rules by dictate". This isn't a defense of Trump, but can we please stop skullfucking the language so that when a day comes that we have actual Rule by Diktat, we can fucking recognize it for what it is? Thanks.
Come on, I was hoping they would ride this all the way to the endpoint of "Franklin D. Roosevelt was the biggest dictator in US history".
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"They don't set law, they don't override law, and they have no force outside of the constitutional powers of the office."
The President now operates outside the Constitution, as he has absolute immunity from law, and the Constitution is law. Trump not only believe Executive Orders ARE law, they might as well be law because the Constitution no longer binds the President. There is no such thing as "constitutional powers of the office", power of the president can no longer be constrained by the Constitution or
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When the motherfucker dissolves Parliament and starts ruling by decree, or declares his son with the brain cells (nominally, at least) his successor, then we have a King.
What we have right now, is a corrupt piece of shit in the office of the Executive, with all of the awesome powers that implies.
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You know he is already ordering the arrests of judges, right? He has also ordered the prosecution of members of Congress. Who's the idiot?
If you cut the balls off of "Parliament", you don't need to dissolve it. Ask Putin how that's done.
Re:Meeting notes (Score:5, Informative)
And to underscore just how guilty Roberts is of stabbing this country in the gut, neither of those are even in the top three of this disgraced court's worst decisions. No, those would be:
* Citizens United, in which Roberts was the deciding vote joining the other fascists on the court in allowing unlimited, unaccountable spending by the ultra rich to completely corrupt our elections
* Loper v Raimondo, in which the disgraceful supreme court voted to effectively make it impossible for any modern regulatory agency to do its job
* Trump v US, in which the disgraceful supreme court voted along party lines to declare the President a King above the law and themselves the King's Council to declare in what ways he is untouchable
For CU alone, John Roberts is the one single person more so than any other to condemn for the fall of the United States. Yes, even more than the bastard from Kentucky known as the Gravedigger of Democracy.
Re:Meeting notes (Score:4, Interesting)
McDonnell v. US was an unanimous decision that held: "merely meeting with someone is not de facto corruption"
It didn't make corruption legal, it made really bad fucking prosecutions of corruption suspects illegal.
Snyder v. US wasn't unanimous, but its holding was also sound- the statute doesn't criminalize acceptance of money without prior agreement or explicit exchange.
It didn't make bribery legal, it made really bad fucking prosecutions of bribery suspects illegal.
In both cases, what you've got is a court that has tightened up prosecutions of corruption and bribery to be limited to... get this.... actual corruption and bribery.
In neither case did the court limit Congress' ability to be alter the statutes to clarify, it merely said that prosecutors can't bend the rules to catch the bad guys.
You seem to be arguing that bending the rules to catch the bad guys is necessary, and that any enforcement of the rules is the legalization of corruption and bribery.
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LOL you really addressed the issues!
It must be so hard pretending that you don't worship the people destroying the country.
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Your recall of recent history is impeccable, but the Gravedigger of Democracy was the enabler of the Roberts court. A crime of this magnitude always has more than one to blame, those two are at the top of the list.
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Re:Meeting notes (Score:4, Informative)
The 747 will be available for use by the next President, be it a Democrat or a Republican.
Bullshit. The plan is to give the plane to Trump's private presidential library foundation when he leaves office..
Re: Meeting notes (Score:2)
The highly unusual -- unprecedented -- arrangement is sure to raise questions about whether it is legal for the Trump administration, and ultimately, the Trump presidential library foundation, to accept such a valuable gift from a foreign power.
sorry, the source is abcnews. i could not get some random guy from twitter to confirm it.
Re: Meeting notes (Score:5, Interesting)
Direct from the horse's mouthpiece:
https://www.foxnews.com/politi... [foxnews.com]
The whole thing is surreal. Boeing doesn't build 747s anymore. The contracted 747s are already built, the expensive part is adding all the extra Air Force One stuff and still having them be FAA certified. All of that would also apply to any other 747, including the Qatari one.
Unless someone has decided maybe it's not so bad an idea for Trump to be on board a sex van in the sky instead of a flying nuclear command centre in the event of a crisis.
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It would be safer for the world if you were in the sex van in the sky versus flying nuclear command centre.
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This comment aged like milk in a hot car.
Fucking cultists are so predictable:
*someone points out corrupt shit Trump is doing*
cultist: "bothsides!"
*it's then pointed out how this corrupt shit is only being done by the current guy, with Trump confirming the details*
cultist: "NO U"
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"The 747 will be available for use by the next President, be it a Democrat or a Republican."
You are not paying attention. It most definitely will not. It transfers to Trump's "Presidential library" so it can continue to be used by Trump alone.
Not that I believe that will ever occur. Trump will never leave the White House except in a coffin.
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Well yea, you can't trust a guy in a tan suit.
I think Trump just likes negotiating (Score:1)
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No, Trump feels like they accomplished something. If Trump wanted to just enjoy playing businessman he didn't need to be President.
What he likes is negotiating *without any personal stakes to himself* and with parties who are forced to deal with him. He has a cheat code to make them come to the table since he can't do it himself, because he is bad at business and negotiating.
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Ok, so we judge the conduct of the President off of flippant quotes you hear at freshman year MBA school and don't actually apply to reality? This is just useless snark. Thanks for nothing.
Easy to say when you are the leader of a nation state with billions of dollars in trade with the largest economy in the world. We and they are all just chips to bargain eh?
The kneelers we are concerned with are Congress and our own elected. I don't begrudge any foreign leader for doing what they need to do. Like I'm
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Up them? We've been trading the entire time. This is honestly just downright pathetic sweeping. "Oh whatever, it's just theater" and you're the clown.
Well I'm glad some of us can be blase' about the whole thing. If anything I'm just as quick to point both those fingers right back you.
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I think he just likes being the center of attention and everything that goes with that. He doesn't actually seem to be that good at real negotiation.
Re: I think Trump just likes negotiating (Score:2)
Why are assuming any reason in the actions of a proven idiot?
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He's objectively terrible at business. It's proven he would be richer had he let his initial inheritance ride in the S&P 500. https://www.forbes.com/sites/d... [forbes.com]
That and the whole bankrupting casinos thing.
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Yeah, how are those "hundreds of new trade deals" coming along? We're 30 days into the 90-day tariff reprieve, and they've announced exactly one trade deal Great Britain) and one "I shot myself in the foot but at least I'm finally planning to get the bullet removed" announcement (China).
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And the UK trade deal is a fucking joke. Yay, expanded markets to the UK for things nobody in the UK wants to buy from us. Oh, and a 10% tariff on anything we buy from the UK.
This is worse than what we had before.
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Spoiler alert: this "90 day pause" is going to last far longer than 90 days, because Trump is fucking terrible at this and knows he was beat like a rented drum by the Chinese.
He got absolutely nothing, in return for completely caving in. "Art of the Deal" indeed.
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status quo method that was working previously is reinstated
Not quite... from what we've seen so far, the "negotiated" outcome is objectively worse for the US -- but Trump ends up personally wealthier. And it's the personal benefit to Trump that is really what he's after. Partly self-enrichment, mostly the feeling that he can make the world grovel.
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Makes sense (Score:4, Interesting)
I mean, Foreign countries want something of value in return for their "gifts" ... AI chips seem nice. From US to Boost Saudi AI Chip Access Even as China Issues Linger [yahoo.com]:
The agreement would boost Saudi Arabia’s ability to buy chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ...
The deal is one of two major AI chip accords that Trump officials are negotiating as they prepare to rewrite US rules governing the export of advanced chips worldwide. Trump may announce the second agreement with the United Arab Emirates later in his trip, Bloomberg has reported.
Yep, surrender (Score:3)
So yes. The victory was a complete surrender not just back to status quo put to an even ln better situation for China
how much cash did they offer him (Score:2)
DOGE? (Score:2)
This allows Trump to maximize his quid. (Score:1)
As in quid pro quo. Which I'm sure he thinks of tit for tat. And he has always been a quid man.
"We're negotiating what your chip quotas will be. By the way, I could use a favor..."