Lutnick pushed to weaken chip rules that overlap with his family business

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WASHINGTON — In Malaysia’s lush southern peninsula, a data center known as A201 is set to open next year, packed with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence servers. The data center plans to supply this computing power to a Chinese tech giant. The setup is legal and profitable. It will also sidestep U.S. rules that ban sales of the most advanced AI chips directly to Chinese firms. The company operating the data center is a client of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm formerly led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who handed off leadership…

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