Because China supposedly used Nvidia cards to train DeepSeek, which blew all of the US AI out of the water. Since China was eating big tech’s lunch, they cried to republicans (and gave them a bunch of reelection money) and now we have this bill. The point is to be able to remotely disable cards if they’re outside of their sale region.
Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why do gpus need tracking?
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
weirdboy@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Such a well-conceived feature could never possibly be abused for unintended purposes.
lorty@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It’s about not letting them be used in China, and any other future enemy countries.