More on AI Diffusion Regulations | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 23, 2025

Tech Field Day News Rundown · Jan 22, 2025 · 40m

We spoke last week about the executive order issued by former President Biden around AI export controls. There has been some more information released about the reasoning behind the controls. One of those was that, as mentioned, third party actors are shipping restricted hardware to countries that were already banned from receiving it. Still others were able to access those systems through cloud computing in countries such as Malaysia and Brazil. The AI Diffusion Framework names 18 "friendly" countries with no restrictions and designates 23 countries under embargo with restrictions and caps…