Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Jim Banks (R–Ind.) sent a letter to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on May 29 about a facility the company is making in Shanghai. The senators expressed concerns about Nvidia advancing Chinese AI development that may pose a threat to the U.S. and enjoined the company's recent decision as "helping the [People's Republic of China] build cutting-edge semiconductor capacity." While the senators make it sound like Nvidia and the Chinese government are in cahoots to establish a global chipmaking monopoly, that's not what's happening at the company's Shanghai site.

Financial Times reports that "the R&D centre would research the specific demands of Chinese customers and the complex technical requirements needed to satisfy Washington's curbs" on chip exports. The Burea

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