The request highlights the president’s challenging task of trying to boost U.S. businesses and limit China’s advances in artificial intelligence.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is requesting the Trump administration to ease and simplify a new system which would curb the sales of advanced U.S. AI chips to much of the world. "The Biden administration’s interim final AI Diffusion Rule caps the export of essential American AI components to many fast-growing and strategically vital markets,