Taiwan plans to tighten controls on exports of AI servers and chips to China and to make shipping restricted AI hardware there a criminal offense, according to Bloomberg. The measure is part of a trade deal with the United States, turning a technical export rule into a matter of criminal law.
The move lands at the center of the global AI supply chain. Taiwan is the base for the world's most advanced chipmaking and for the server makers that assemble AI systems, so any limit on what can be sent to China reshapes how AI hardware moves around the world.
China drafts its own AI export control list
The same week, China's commerce and science ministries released a draft update to the country's list of banned and restricted export technologies, targeting 23 key AI technologies across large models, agents, compute clusters and data processing, according to Bloomberg and The Decoder.
Under the draft, AI tools that can write or alter malware on their own to attack critical infrastructure, the military or government agencies would face a total export ban. Certain AI tools for finding software vulnerabilities would not be banned outright but would face new export limits.
Large AI models would face controls in two cases. The first covers models trained on China's "important data" as defined by its Data Security Law, with exemptions for lawfully public data and for tiny amounts of up to 0.1 percent under strict conditions. The second covers core model technologies, including weights, checkpoints, source code, architecture and training or inference methods.
- 23 AI technologies targeted across large models, agents, compute clusters and data processing
- Controls kick in once a model hits 10^26 FLOPs of training compute
