The White House has already been looking to prohibit American technology companies like Nvidia from selling products like chipsets purpose-built for AI applications to China. These new restrictions could curb American cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft from selling cloud access to AI developers in China.
The US has feared Beijing's advancement into cutting-edge fields like AI and how the Chinese government may use the technology to bolster its influence around the world. like Nvidia from selling certain kinds of chips to China, it hasn't prevented cloud providers like Microsoft and AWS from offering their hosted services.