Microsoft has urged President Donald Trump's team to ease export restrictions imposed on artificial intelligence chips in the closing days of the Biden administration, saying the measures should not extend to a group of U.

The request highlights the president’s challenging task of trying to boost U.S. businesses and limit China’s advances in artificial intelligence.

Microsoft urged the Trump administration to change Biden-era limits on chip exports, warning that provisions of the regulations could give China an advantage in the global AI race if allowed to remain in effect.

Microsoft urged President Donald Trump to change U.S. policy about restricting exports of the most advanced artificial-intelligence chips in a blog post Thursday. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice chair and president,

Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues Microsoft would like the Trump administration to row back AI export restrictions introduced by his predecessor that affect countries where the cloud services giant has datacenters.