Congress Revisits Export Curbs in Wake of Trump’s H200 Approval

House Republicans are calling for arms-sale style congressional oversight of artificial intelligence chip exports as the Trump administration moves to approve licenses for Nvidia Corp. to ship its H200 processor to China.

Representative Brian Mast, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which oversees export controls, introduced a bill Friday dubbed the AI Overwatch Act that would require Congress to be notified of AI chips sales to adversaries. Any processors equal to or higher in capabilities than Nvidia’s H20 would be subject to oversight, according to the draft bill text.

The legislation would give lawmakers 30 ...