Congress Wants a GPS Tracker on Every Advanced AI Chip America Exports

The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the Chip Security Act, which would require technical location-verification mechanisms on exported advanced AI chips (e.g., Nvidia H100-class accelerators) after findings that the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek obtained restricted chips via smuggling; the report cites DOJ indictments for multi-million-dollar smuggling conspiracies and frames the bill as a hardware-based enforcement response amid political debate over export controls.