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White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crackdown on US AI rules, document shows

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WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday intends to publish a plan that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let American AI flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows.

According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state AI laws conflict with its mandate.

It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department.

The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The document shows President Donald Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI to supercharge its military and harm allies.

Biden, who left office in January, imposed a raft of restrictions on exports of coveted American AI chips to China and other countries that could divert the semiconductors to China over national security concerns.

Trump rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not used for misinformation. He also pulled back Biden's so-called AI diffusion rule, which capped the amount of American AI computing capacity that some countries were allowed to obtain via U.S. AI chip imports.

Last month, White House AI czar David Sacks downplayed the risk that coveted American AI chips could be smuggled to bad actors and expressed concern that regulating U.S. AI too tightly could stifle growth and cede the critical market to China.

Under Trump's plan, the White House would also promote AI use at the Pentagon, launch a program to identify federal regulations that impede AI development, and streamline the permitting process for data center construction.

 
soAsian said:
The US will have to compete on being the best.
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That is the way it should be. Competition breeds innovation, let the best country win. Letting other countries use our AI is brilliant. Collaboration will win the AI race, absolutely.

President Donald Trump is laser-focused.........

I'm trying to figure out how a 79yo man can be laser focused on anything but bladder control. :ROFLMAO:
 
Daniel Nenni said:
That is the way it should be. Competition breeds innovation, let the best country win. Letting other countries use our AI is brilliant. Collaboration will win the AI race, absolutely.

President Donald Trump is laser-focused.........

I'm trying to figure out how a 79yo man can be laser focused on anything but bladder control. :ROFLMAO:
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If he was truly laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden, he wouldn't have issued the H20 ban in April ! Maybe he was distracted by bladder control at the time !

What Was the “H20 Ban”?
The so-called “H20 ban” refers to a U.S. government restriction—enacted in April 2025—on the export of Nvidia’s H20 AI chips to China. The H20 is a graphics processing unit (GPU) designed for high-end artificial intelligence applications, and was the most advanced Nvidia chip allowed to be exported to China under previous controls. This April ban was implemented due to national security concerns about China’s potential military and surveillance uses of advanced U.S. AI technology
 
soAsian said:
The US will have to compete on being the best.
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OK, here’s the “plan” - I guess we are past the H20 Ban stage.

www.whitehouse.gov

WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS AMERICA'S AI ACTION PLAN

WASHINGTON, DC – The White House today released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive
www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov

Now we’ll have to see if Trump is willing to steamroll Josh Hawley to get the Grain Belt Express power line project done and whether we can really start cranking out all the electricians and HVAC we’ll need.

www.wfyi.org

Major power line project to bring clean, cheap energy to Indiana faces backlash

A U.S. senator from Missouri wants to block an electric power line project that would run from western Kansas to Indiana's border with Illinois.
www.wfyi.org
 

Trump to outline AI priorities amid tech battle with China​


(Reuters) -The Trump administration is set to release a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to relax American rules governing the industry at the center of a technological arms race between economic rivals the U.S. and China.

President Donald Trump will mark the plan's release with a speech outlining the importance of winning an AI race that is increasingly seen as a defining feature of 21st-century geopolitics, with both China and the U.S. investing heavily in the industry to secure economic and military superiority.


www.yahoo.com

Trump to outline AI priorities amid tech battle with China

(Reuters) -The Trump administration is set to release a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to relax American rules governing the industry at the center of a technological arms race between economic rivals the U.S. and China. President Donald Trump will mark the plan's...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
 
KevinK said:
If he was truly laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden, he wouldn't have issued the H20 ban in April !
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You can't isolate this from the general context of trade with China. Which effectively banned export of 7 rare earths to the US in April 4th, the H20 export ban to China that followed on the 15th is almost certainly part of the response.

Now that a general deal is being hammered out, the US is getting a lowered amount of rare earths from China and it's been said the AI chip export ban is being relaxed.
 
lispwright said:
You can't isolate this from the general context of trade with China. Which effectively banned export of 7 rare earths to the US in April 4th, the H20 export ban to China that followed on the 15th is almost certainly part of the response.

Now that a general deal is being hammered out, the US is getting a lowered amount of rare earths from China and it's been said the AI chip export ban is being relaxed.
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Yup - we're kind of back I the place where we were, albeit a little less good with only limited rare earths, at least until the next tactical wrinkle, or a real deal (not just a framework) gets worked out. But I think this show the challenges of mixing tactical negotiations with overlapping strategic initiatives. Things are going to be very messy.
 
KevinK said:
Yup - we're kind of back I the place where we were, albeit a little less good with only limited rare earths, at least until the next tactical wrinkle, or a real deal (not just a framework) gets worked out. But I think this show the challenges of mixing tactical negotiations with overlapping strategic initiatives. Things are going to be very messy.
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Funny note, EDA spent 20 years getting China to respect software rights and made good progress resulting in billions of dollars in revenue. In the past China companies would buy one copy of software which we would call a site license because it would be cloned hundreds if not thousands of times. When the US suspended EDA sales this year what do you think China did? I was told you can now get a CD with Cadence Virtuoso software in a China train station. :ROFLMAO:

www.ft.com

Donald Trump orders US chip software suppliers to stop selling to China

Move by Washington is latest effort to stymie geopolitical rival’s technological advance
www.ft.com www.ft.com
 
Not sure what final decisions will be but:

US is a leader in semiconductor equipment
US is a leader in AI chips
US is a leader in AI software (probably written by an AI Bot)
with the Chips act and BBB followup, we will soon be the leader in Semi Fabs

Putting restrictions on exporting this tech .... Unless there is a clear and present danger ..... seems like a bad idea.

And as for Danger,

If a Chinese Missile launched from Beijing aimed at Washington DC were guided by the quality of "Artificial Intelligence" I get to work with....

.... It would likely hit Shanghai
 
MKWVentures said:
Not sure what final decisions will be but:

US is a leader in semiconductor equipment
US is a leader in AI chips
US is a leader in AI software (probably written by an AI Bot)
with the Chips act and BBB followup, we will soon be the leader in Semi Fabs

Putting restrictions on exporting this tech .... Unless there is a clear and present danger ..... seems like a bad idea.

And as for Danger,

If a Chinese Missile launched from Beijing aimed at Washington DC were guided by the quality of "Artificial Intelligence" I get to work with....

.... It would likely hit Shanghai
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When did US become a leader is semi equipment when they don't even make a litho machine 🤣🤣
 
lispwright said:
You can't isolate this from the general context of trade with China. Which effectively banned export of 7 rare earths to the US in April 4th, the H20 export ban to China that followed on the 15th is almost certainly part of the response.

Now that a general deal is being hammered out, the US is getting a lowered amount of rare earths from China and it's been said the AI chip export ban is being relaxed.
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Best explanation yet for why all the bobbing and weaving on trade and tariff policies. Donny and Xi are working through a series of game theory scenarios / strategies. So far, all have been failures but given how things work, we’ll eventually get back to one that is cooperative (and maybe not all that different from the starting place), but with each able to claim some victory.

The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory​


 
The difference in these negotiations is, Xi listens to most of his experts who are playing 4D chess (time being the 4th D) while Don tends to throw his marbles around and stomp off whenever the breeze shifts.

Negotiating real improvements with China is extremely hard even when you've got your A Team on it. And, well, the US currently does not.
 
Markwrob said:
Negotiating real improvements with China is extremely hard even when you've got your A Team on it. And, well, the US currently does not.
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Listen through the podcast. Their account of how game theory works in a bilateral negotiation like this (i.e. barring some massive intervention of a significant third party. like the EU teaming with China), is that you end up in a stable, marginally collaborative equilibrium that is not too much different than you started with, because the previous equilibrium was defined by the same economic realities that exist today. The only question is how much thrashing and time it takes to get there, plus what new priorities each player decides to exert in exchange for giving up something else.
 
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