The Biden administration has issued an executive order restricting US investors from funding Chinese companies engaged in certain technology development that could have military applications. The order aims to prevent these technologies from being utilized by China’s military.
China has introduced new regulations for generative artificial intelligence (AI), making it one of the first countries to do so. The guidelines, released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, aim to manage the rapidly growing industry and will take effect from August 15.
The use of spy balloons by China has raised alarm in the US, as they have been reportedly used for surveillance missions over US military facilities. These highly advanced balloons, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), are capable of conducting high-altitude reconnaissance operations.
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) have been told by the US government to suspend exports of certain high-performance chips, that have application in artificial intelligence, to China. Nvidia clarified in a regulatory filing that US officials had taken the step due to fears that the chips could potentially land up in the hands of a “military end user.”
Sunway, China’s newest supercomputer was used to train an AI model with 174 trillion parameters. The newest generation of China’s Sunway supercomputer has reportedly stolen a march on Frontier, a computer build by the US Department of Energy, and ranked earlier this month as the world’s most powerful. According to SCMP, the Chinese machine trained …