Sources: the Commerce Department is finalizing a semiconductor control update that would prevent remote access and chip smuggling into China via data centers
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Washington is moving from export controls on physical chips to controls on remote access and data center routing—AI compute policy is shifting to service-level enforcement. If you rely on cross-border GPU tenancy or gray-area hosting, assume compliance, logging, and geo-fencing requirements are about to tighten materially.
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