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There are fears Chinese companies have taken advantage of a loophole to buy hundreds of thousands of the...

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The United States is expanding export controls to prevent Chinese firms from acquiring advanced Nvidia AI semiconductors via international subsidiaries, closing a critical loophole in existing hardware restrictions. These measures aim to slow the development of frontier military AI capabilities and large-scale compute clusters that could pose significant global security risks. The report highlights the growing tension between compute-based hardware governance and the rapid scaling of AI power, which has direct implications for international efforts to mitigate catastrophic AI-enabled threats. This development is particularly relevant to Australian strategic policy as a middle power navigating the security ramifications of the US-China technological decoupling.

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