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Well, well, well, Invidia clearly doesn't agree with Anthropics support for export controls on U.S. made AI chips.

You see, on Wednesday Anthropic doubled down on its support for the U.S. Department of Commerce's framework for artificial intelligence diffusion,

which would impose sweeping AI chip export restrictions starting May 15th.

Well, the next day, Nvidia responded with a very different take on the upcoming controls,

in a statement to TechCrunch, an Nvidia spokesperson added that China, with half of the world's

AI researchers, has highly capable AI experts at every layer of the AI stack.

America cannot manipulate regulators to capture victory in AI.

Export restrictions would hurt NVIDIA's global revenue stream.

Nvidia recently stated that a new licensing requirement for its H20 AI chips to be sold in China

could cost the company $5.5 billion in Q1 of its 2026 fiscal year.

Google is reportedly showing ads and chats with some third-party AI chatbots.

You see, Google's AdSense advertising network started supporting ads inside users' chats with some third-party AI chatbots earlier this year, Bloomberg reported.

The company's rolling out the feature following tests with AI search startup, I Ask, and Liner,

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