Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.
"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal does an "exit interview" with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. They talk AI, tariffs and more.
As part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China, the Biden Administration has finalized its rules for banning Chinese EVs in the US market.
President Joe Biden's outgoing administration plans to finalize rules next week cracking down on Chinese vehicle software and hardware, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters.
The United States is going to ban Russian and Chinese software in vehicles, according to the Department of Commerce, due to national security concerns.
The United States unveiled further export controls Wednesday on advanced computing semiconductors, boosting due diligence requirements for businesses as it seeks to prevent diversion of tech to China despite existing restrictions.
The US on Monday unveiled new export rules on advanced computing chips used for artificial intelligence, further curbing China's access to the technology.
But new rules announced by the White House on Monday seek to guarantee American supremacy in that race. The Biden administration's "unprecedented new export controls" intend to keep AI technology from falling into Chinese hands,
The U.S. is imposing some of its strongest measures yet to limit Chinese advances in AI, aiming to block backdoors in other countries that Beijing could use to access technology.
The moves are part of the Biden administration’s last-gasp efforts to clamp down on China’s harnessing of AI for its military and tech sector.
The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
By 2020, the plan called for “iconic advances” in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise—and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month government crackdown that shaved around $1 trillion off China's tech sector.