On February 11, 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat hailing from Massachusetts, declared that she, in conjunction with Senator Jim Banks, a Republican representing Indiana, would co-sponsor a bipartisan bill. This bill seeks to forbid the sale of particular artificial intelligence chips to China.

The underlying objective of this proposal is to bolster export control measures and endow Congress with more robust oversight and checks-and-balances mechanisms concerning foreign export matters. By doing so, it aims to curtail the likelihood of the Trump administration exporting cutting-edge AI chips to competing nations.

This initiative arises from a bipartisan agreement within Congress regarding the security implications of high-tech exports. This consensus was particularly solidified after Trump sanctioned the sale of certain chips to China by NVIDIA, albeit under restricted conditions. The Warren camp aspires to curb the executive branch's discretionary approach to exporting high-performance computing chips to China through legislative means. Their goal is to avert the potential misuse of pivotal technologies by rival nations.