Microsoft (MSFT) called on the Trump administration to change a last-minute Biden-era AI rule that would cap tech companies' ability to export AI chips and expand data centers abroad. In a blog post Thursday morning, Microsoft criticized the so-called AI diffusion rule imposed by the Biden administration in the former president's final days in office. Aside from 18 "key" US allies, the rule capped the amount of AI chips that roughly 150 countries can purchase from US companies without obtaining a special license, with the aim of thwarting chip smuggling to China. These "tier two" countries include Israel, Switzerland, and...