Jeffrey Bean

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

By Jeffrey D. Bean

All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance compute for AI at both a market level and in national defense applications, while blocking adversaries’ access to advanced AI chips and the capability to manufacture them.

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn

Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.