The US sneaks trackers into AI chips to thwart shipments to China

The AI race is the modern-day space race, and the US is concerned that China will make too much progress too quickly. This is precisely why President Trump recently suggested that the likes of NVIDIA only allowed to sell limited versions of its AI chips to Chinese customers. How could this be policed? Through the use of trackers, according to sources familiar with the matter. As Reuters reports, authorities in the US have secretly placed location tracking devices in certain chip shipments. The concern is that AI chips considered too advanced could be illegally diverted to China away from whatever… [Continue Reading]