The debate over the United States' "strictest AI chip ban" is heating up. Recently, Anthropic, a U.S.-based AI startup and developer of Claude—a competitor to ChatGPT—submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the interim final rule of the Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Framework. In these comments, Anthropic urged for stricter export controls on high-end AI chips. However, what has stirred up even more controversy is Anthropic's official blog post, which accused China of establishing elaborate smuggling networks for chips, involving sums of money potentially reaching hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.