AI Safety Newsletter #55: Trump Administration Rescinds AI Diffusion Rule, Allows Chip Sales to Gulf States
Summary
The Trump Administration cancelled the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which had regulated exports of AI chips and AI models (software trained to perform tasks) to different countries. At the same time, the administration approved major sales of advanced AI chips to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with deals including up to 500,000 chips per year to the UAE and 18,000 advanced chips to Saudi Arabia.
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Original source: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-55-trump-administration
First tracked: February 15, 2026 at 08:49 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%