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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.

Some industries would not be impacted, because they are not crucial to national security, including supply chain activities and gaming chips.

The so-called AI diffusion rule from Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security faced swift pushback from industry.

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the new policy will help build a trusted technology ecosystem around the world.

The United States unveiled new export rules Monday on chips used for artificial intelligence, furthering efforts to make it tough for China and other rivals to access advanced technology in Joe Biden's final days as president.

The U.S. is imposing some of its strongest measures yet to limit Chinese advances in AI, aiming to block backdoors in other countries that Beijing could use to access technology.

The Birmingham Biotechnology Hub will receive funding to use artificial intelligence to shorten drug development to provide affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics.

The White House unveiled sweeping new limits on the sale of advanced AI chips by Nvidia Corp. and its peers, leaving the Trump administration to decide how and whether to implement curbs that have encountered fierce industry opposition.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.

The action "is designed to safeguard the most advanced AI technology and ensure that ... with partner countries," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said during a call with reporters about the ...

President Donald Trump downplayed the national security risk posed by TikTok in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, days after offering the social video app a reprieve from legislation that would have forced it to shut down.