{"id":159129,"date":"2026-10-21T20:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159129"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:36:57","slug":"top-democrat-says-chip-restrictions-are-key-lever-for-us-ai-edge-over-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159129","title":{"rendered":"Top Democrat says chip restrictions are \u2018key lever\u2019 for US AI edge over China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust two weeks before the US midterm elections, Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he did not believe America would maintain its lead over China in frontier AI indefinitely, describing restrictions on advanced chips as Washington\u2019s key leverage.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t believe for one second that we\u2019re going to maintain a lead over Chinese frontier models forever. But we should for as long as we can,\u201d said Himes at a Brookings event in Washington.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd the one real lever we&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3371692\/top-democrat-says-chip-restrictions-are-key-lever-us-ai-edge-over-china\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust two weeks before the US midterm elections, Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he did not believe America&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}