It’s worth noting that this splits countries into three levels - first without restrictions, second with medium restrictions, third with harsh restrictions.
And the second level, for some reason, includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).
This smells about as well informed as the genius move that forced Ukrainian owner, Max Polyakov, to divest from Firefly Aerospace. A US government position that was widely derided by space industry watchers, and has now been reversed.
This might be a product of the USA being a gerontocracy.
Someone still sees Eastern Europe as a provider of cheap brainpower. This is insulting.
>> And the second level, for some reason, includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).
> Yeah, this is really a bit insulting.
So you're insulted some country of other wasn't included in:
> First, this rule creates an exception in new § 740.27 for all transactions involving certain types of end users in certain low-risk destinations. Specifically, these are destinations in which: (1) the government has implemented measures to prevent diversion of advanced technologies, and (2) there is an ecosystem that will enable and encourage firms to use advanced AI models to advance the common national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and its allies and partners.
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IMHO, it's silly to get insulted over something like that. Your feelings are not a priority for an export control law.
Taiwan, even though it's a US ally, is only allowed limited access to certain sensitive US technology it deploys (IIRC, something about Patriot Missile seeker heads, for instance), because their military is full of PRC spies (e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/chinese-spies-target-taiwa...), so if they had access the system would likely be compromised. It's as simple as that.
I see the return of cold war computing model, where many countries had their own computer platforms and programming languages.
Which apparently might be a good outcome to FOSS operating systems, with national distributions like Kylin.
As European I vote for SuSE.