The Trump administration has now lost its third artificial intelligence testing chief in about a year. According to sources that spoke to Axios, the Commerce Department considered adding multiple Chinese AI companies to its “Entity List,” which would prohibit Americans from accessing their software without a license. This would’ve discouraged U.S. companies from using Chinese AI models, Axios reported. Chinese AI models cost as little as 18 cents per million tokens, versus roughly $4 for comparable American models, Straight Arrow previously reported. U.S. usage of Chinese AI models has also surged.