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US push to create AI, tech supply chains faces big hurdles

By Bradley Dress ( April 24, 2026, 20:21 GMT | Comment) -- The Trump administration is pushing forward with a major new initiative to create an alternative system for emerging technologies and an export program for artificial intelligence materials, but both efforts will face structural challenges and run up against entrenched issues such as a fractured global trade order and domestic polarization. A pact announced late last year, called Pax Silica, marks a significant new era for the US in its bid to outcompete China with emerging and powerful technologies such as AI. Similarly, the American AI Exports Program runs in tandem with Pax Silica to promote the exportation of the US stack for AI, a critical industry that Washington is racing in to beat China.The Trump administration is pushing forward with a major new initiative to create an alternative system for emerging technologies and an export program for artificial intelligence materials, but both efforts will face structural challenges and run up against entrenched issues such as a fractured global trade order and domestic polarization. ...

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