On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI accelerating GPU chips, like those manufactured by Nvidia , currently serve as the backbone for a wide variety of AI model deployments, such as chatbots like ChatGPT , AI...