Trump administration to rescind and replace Biden-era global AI chip export curbs

US President Donald Trump‘s administration plans to rescind and modify a Biden-era rule that curbed the export of sophisticated artificial-intelligence chips, a spokeswoman for the Department of Commerce said on Wednesday. The regulation was aimed at further restricting AI chip and technology exports, dividing up the world to keep advanced computing power in the United States and among its allies while finding more ways to block China’s access.

The Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion was issued in January, a week before the end of the…