SINGAPORE: The United States' Department of Commerce on Tuesday (May 13) issued new guidelines which state that the use of Huawei's Ascend AI chips "anywhere in the world" violates the country's export controls. The department's Bureau of Industry and Security also warned of the "potential consequences" of allowing US AI chips to be used for training Chinese AI models. The training process for AI models involves providing them with data to learn patterns, while inference is when the trained