Hacker News with Generative AI: Export Controls

US Government imposes license requirement on Nvidia H20 exports (techcrunch.com)
Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips.
Nvidia, Export Controls and the Trump Team's Art of Trading on Insider Knowledge (dataandpolitics.net)
A perfectly timed Nvidia put trade preceded Trump’s export controls by hours—and paid off by over 600%. In a month already shadowed by suspicious options activity, this one raises new questions.
Anthropic's CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working (techcrunch.com)
In an essay on Wednesday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, weighed in on the debate over whether Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s success implies that U.S. export controls on AI chips aren’t working.
On DeepSeek and export controls (darioamodei.com)
A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China. Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has managed to — at least in some respects — come close to the performance of US frontier AI models at lower cost.
Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (federalregister.gov)
With this interim final rule, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revises the Export Administration Regulations' (EAR) controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and adds a new control on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights for certain advanced closed-weight dual-use AI models.
Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools (bloomberg.com)
The Netherlands tightened export control rules to make ASML Holding NV apply for licenses with the Dutch government instead of Washington for some of its tools.