Potential targets of the law could include companies that have faced accusations of extracting capabilities from US AI models, including Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — as well as larger companies. The Chinese AI industry is currently led by far bigger rivals like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and ByteDance Ltd.
(April 16): House Republicans are calling for US sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract results from leading US artificial intelligence (AI) models to develop their own competing systems, part of a widening effort by Congress to counter China in the global AI race.
Legislation proposed by Representative Bill Huizenga would direct the government to identify entities in China and Russia that use improper query-and-copy techniques on American models, according to a draft seen by by Bloomberg News. It would prompt consideration of sanctions on offenders via the Commerce Department’s blacklist and through presidential emergency economic powers established under a 1977 law.
