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Bureau of Industry and Security: every development we track
4 developments and 3 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- US scraps AI Diffusion Rule and warns against using Huawei Ascend chips
It replaced a single global framework for AI-chip exports with country-by-country deals, which is why Gulf and China access since then has been negotiated case by case.
- US opens case-by-case H200 licences for China and adds 25% tariff on such chips
It reopened China to near-frontier US accelerators under a revenue-and-volume bargain, reversing the trend of tighter controls since 2022.
- US export-control order forces global shutdown of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US used export controls to halt a commercial frontier model, showing that cyber-capable models can be pulled from every customer overnight.
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- US moves UAE into top export tier, opening licence-free AI chips to approved users
It codifies the approved-entity model for exporting the US AI stack to partners, and lawyers expect it to be the template for any other Gulf or strategic partner given similar treatment.