White House moves to secure 'critical' technologies

The White House announced guidelines for protecting technologies viewed as critical to U.S. national security, including artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and semiconductors.

A senior administration official told reporters on a call that the United States would “no longer turn a blind eye” to countries “who steal technology, force companies into handing over intellectual property, undercut free and fair markets, and surreptitiously divert emerging civilian technology to build up their militaries.”