

In a last-minute move, Biden sanctions what is basically the entire world regarding AI chips. There are now 3 tier countries, with tier 1 with unlimited access, tier 2 with 50.000 AI units limit and tier 3 countries with strictest restrictions. Tier 1 is (shrunk down list of) “always the same map” countries, Tier 3 China, Russia and friends, Tier 2 the rest of the world.
Interestingly enough, Tier 2 includes Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, all the Nazi Baltic states and Poland (heh heh). This could mean even gamers could have a hard time, or more likely no chance at all due to red tape, business demand, or inflated price, getting the upcoming Nvidia’s strongest RTX 5090s in those countries.
Bloomberg article on archive link: https://archive.ph/UKYTp
What a lovely day. First the Derpseek AI grift wipeout, and now Trump bullying the crap out of key vassal.
Here in Switzerland people are already squealing about US AI sanctions about to hit. „But we were such good dogs!“
The Empire is somehow accelerating its downfall and I am all here for it.