Amazon, Microsoft back effort to curb Nvidia's exports to China, WSJ reports
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Short for Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence (GAIN), the Act was introduced as part of the National Defense Authorization Act and stipulates that AI chipmakers prioritize domestic orders for advanced processors before supplying them to foreign customers. Microsoft publicly came out in favor of the legislation, while officials at Amazon's cloud unit have privately told Senate staffers that they also support it, the report said. Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google have not taken a position on the Act, and neither has U.S. President Donald Trump, the report added.
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Short for Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence (GAIN), the Act was introduced as part of the National Defense Authorization Act and stipulates that AI chipmakers prioritize domestic orders for advanced processors before supplying them to foreign customers. Microsoft publicly came out in favor of the legislation, while officials at Amazon's cloud unit have privately told Senate staffers that they also support it, the report said. Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google have not taken a position on the Act, and neither has U.S. President Donald Trump, the report added.