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China moves to curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks
The draft list covers 23 AI technologies, 12 solar technologies and 5 biomedicine ones, plus some chip designs. China's commerce ministry called the step "necessary" and gave national security as one reason. Under the proposal, AI models trained on sensitive national data couldn't be sold abroad, while models with 2 trillion or more parameters, a measure of learning capacity, could be restricted.
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