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Lawmakers target chip smuggling

July 17, 2025

AI competition is “a race against time, and we know that China is very proficient at replicating our advances and replicating our technology,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), the bill’s sponsor, told us. “We don’t want those [chips] to be smuggled, we don’t want them to be replicated, we don’t want them to be sold in the black market.”