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"This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of
Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.
In return, the US government will receive 25% of the sales revenue, in what has
become a hallmark of this administration to take a sales cut of a private
company’s revenues.
The H200 is Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI processor. It’s roughly six times
more capable than the H20 chips previously available to buyers in China.
These aren’t consumer gadgets powering the latest cat meme generator or helping
you with the weekly pub quiz. They’re the computational engines behind advanced
AI systems that increasingly drive autonomous weapons. This includes drone
navigation systems, automatic gun emplacements and targeting algorithms in
modern warfare.
Think less the futuristic world of the Terminator movies, more the very real
AI-powered targeting systems already being deployed, including in Ukraine and
Gaza.
At the end of a year that has seen the US and China locked in a bitter trade
war in which Trump lifted tariffs on China as high as 145% at one point, the
decision to allow these sensitive exports is stunning.
This policy reversal fundamentally challenges how export controls work. It also
raises urgent questions for US allies such as Australia, caught between
economic dependence on China and deepening defence alignment with an
increasingly unpredictable United States."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
