Several top Senate Democrats are urging President Trump to walk back a deal with Nvidia and AMD that would allow the companies to sell artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China after they agreed to share 15 percent of revenue from sales.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democratic Sens. Mark Warner (Va.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Chris Coons (Del.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) argued in a letter sent Friday that the move runs counter to U.S. national security interests and could violate the law.

Warner is the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, while Reed, Shaheen and Warren are the top Democrats on the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Banking panels, respectively.

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