Overview

• Representative Bill Foster has introduced a bipartisan bill requiring AI chipmakers, such as Nvidia, to include location tracking and kill-switch technology in their products to enforce U.S. export controls.
• The legislation, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, mandates the U.S. Department of Commerce to establish regulations within six months to implement these measures.
• Independent experts confirm the feasibility of using signal-timing technology for country-level location verification of AI chips, which is already utilized by companies like Alphabet for internal security.
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns that losing access to China's projected $50–64 billion AI market would significantly impact U.S. revenue, jobs, and global competitiveness.
• The White House faces a May 15 deadline to finalize or revise the AI diffusion rule, which imposes stricter export limits on advanced AI chips and closed AI model weights.