AI chip smuggling crackdown: Nvidia builds location-tracking tech; ‘Monitor entire AI GPU fleet

Nvidia has developed a location verification feature for its chips, aiming to help prevent its advanced artificial intelligence processors from being smuggled into countries where exports are restricted, reported Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter
The move comes amid growing pressure in the United States to tighten oversight of high-end AI hardware. Lawmakers and the White House have been looking for ways to halt the flow of restricted chips to China and other banned destinations, a push that intensified after the Department of Justice brought cases against groups accused of trying to move more than $160 million worth of Nvidia processors into China.