The U.S. banned Nvidia's best chips from going to China. Now it's trying to close a crucial loophole

U.S. export controls ban Nvidia's most advanced AI chips from China, but Chinese firms access these chips' computing power via Southeast Asian data centers, exploiting a loophole that regulates ownership of physical chips but not remote access. U.S. lawmakers are considering expanding regulation to cover remote cloud access to controlled technology, though legislative hurdles remain.

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