Nvidia is pushing back against the proposed law, which would force the company to prioritize selling leading GPUs to Americans before foreign buyers.
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Nvidia is trying to kill the momentum behind a proposed US law that would force it to sell the most advanced GPUs to Americans first before they could be exported abroad.
“In trying to solve a problem that does not exist, the proposed bill would restrict competition worldwide in any industry that uses mainstream computing chips,” the company tweeted today.
Nvidia took direct aim at the “GAIN AI Act” after the US Senate added the legislation to the latest draft of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026.
Whether the proposal will survive future drafts remains unclear. But the bill’s sponsor, US Sen. Jim Banks (R-Indiana), says it «puts American companies and researchers before our adversaries like China.
