White House push for rule banning remote access to restricted AI chips

Citing two current US Commerce officials, The Information reports the White House in late October asked Congress to add a provision to the Overwatch Act requiring Commerce to write a rule against remote access to certain chips — the route Chinese AI labs use to reach restricted chips in Singapore and Malaysia data centers. It also asked to narrow the Match Act to cover only advanced chip production. Previous lobbying by Nvidia and internal opposition had stopped such rules.