Senators are calling on Trump to continue preventing Nvidia from selling its best chips in China

A group of urges senators President Donald Trump to maintain US superiority in artificial intelligence development by denying China access to its most advanced chips and models. The bipartisan resolution, introduced by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), comes just days after… Trump retracted statement Which suggests he would consider letting Nvidia sell its powerful Blackwell chip in China.

The resolution, co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), calls attention to China’s “efforts to close the AI ​​gap and leapfrog” the United States when it comes to developing and deploying frontier AI models. He adds, “China’s inability to create and access computing power is the main obstacle to its progress.” To keep the United States ahead, the senators are calling on the government to urge US companies to continue offering “priority access” to the most advanced AI chips, cloud infrastructure, and models to allies, while preventing China and other adversaries from obtaining the technology.

“We cannot allow China to jump ahead of us, enhance its military capabilities, maximize its cyberattacks against American industry, and threaten the American economy and national security in the long term,” Senator Coons said in a statement. “This bipartisan decision puts us on a path toward a different future — one in which frontier AI systems are built in the United States by American companies.”

Senators want the government to continue enforcing the law Export controls That prevents American chipmakers like Nvidia from selling their most advanced chips to China, a policy that was jeopardized last month when… Trump said he would talk Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sale of Nvidia’s Blackwell chip in the country.