The U.S. Treasury has proposed new restrictions under its Outbound Investment Security Program targeting American high-tech investments in artificial intelligence and other advanced fields to countries deemed adversarial. The expanded rules would apply to sectors including hypersonic systems, quantum technologies, and high-performance computing, tightening controls on capital flows to nations like China, Russia, and North Korea. The move aims to limit U.S. firms' financial support for emerging technologies that could strengthen national security threats. Businesses and investors may face heightened scrutiny over transactions involving these sensitive industries.
The Treasury Department on Thursday proposed a rule to curb American high-tech investments, including AI, outbound to U.S. adversaries like China, Russia, North Korea and other "countries of concern." The rule expands restrictions in the Outbound Investment Security Program (OISP) on hypersonic systems and quantum information technologies, high-performance computing and supercomputing, as well as AI....
