Tyron Smith is set to retire with the Dallas Cowboys after the perennial Pro Bowl left tackle spent his final season with the New York Jets, a person with knowledge of Smith's plans said Tuesday.
The Cowboys set a Wednesday announcement from Smith without providing any details. A person who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the 34-year-old intended to sign a ceremonial one-day contract in order to retire with the franchise that drafted him in the first round 14 years ago.
The selection of Smith at No. 9 overall triggered a rebuilding of the Dallas offensive line, which was among the best in the NFL within a few years of that move.
Smith's retirement comes a little more than a month after right guard Zack Martin made the same announcement following an 11-season career spent entirely with the Cowboys. Martin and Smith were teammates for 10 years.
Smith was the first of three offensive linemen drafted in the first round by Dallas in a four-year span. Center Travis Frederick was a late first-round pick in 2013, followed by Martin a year later. Frederick retired following the 2019 season.
Smith played right tackle when he debuted as a 20-year-old rookie out of Southern California. He switched to quarterback Tony Romo's blind side in 2012 and ended up as an eight-time Pro Bowler at left tackle. Smith was a two-time All-Pro, first with Romo in 2014, then in Dak Prescott's rookie season in 2016.
After missing just one game in his first five seasons, Smith began to have issues with injuries and missed at least three games in each of his final nine years. That included a pair of seasons with the Cowboys in which Smith was limited to a total of six games.
Smith made 161 starts over 13 seasons with the Cowboys before making 10 starts for the Jets last season.
Dallas had seven winning seasons and six playoff appearances during Smith's tenure, but couldn't get past the divisional round. The Cowboys have gone 29 seasons without reaching an NFC championship game since winning the franchise's fifth Super Bowl title.
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FILE - New York Jets offensive tackle Tyron Smith (77) reacts during an NFL football game against the Houston Texans Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
FILE - Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Tyron Smith (77) in action against the Green Bay Packers during an NFL wild-card playoff football game Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Maria Lysaker, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval.
“These new requirements would have stifled American innovation and saddled companies with burdensome new regulatory requirements,” the Commerce Department stated in its guidance.
President Joe Biden established the export framework shortly before he left office in an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. While the United States had already restricted exports to adversaries such as China and Russia, some of those controls had loopholes and the rule would have set limits on a much broader group of countries, including Middle Eastern countries that President Donald Trump is visiting this week.
The Biden rule's sorting more than 100 countries into different tiers of export restrictions drew strong opposition from those countries, as well as U.S. chipmakers like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. They argued the restrictions could actually push some countries to turn to China instead of the U.S. for their AI technology.
What Biden's rule did "was send a message to 120 nations that they couldn’t necessarily count on us to provide the AI they want and need,” said Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, at a U.S. Senate hearing last week.
Commerce Undersecretary Jeffery Kessler said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration will work to replace the now-rescinded rule to pursue AI with "trusted foreign countries around the world, while keeping the technology out of the hands of our adversaries." The administration said a replacement rule is coming in the future but hasn't said what the new rule will say.
The European Commission welcomed the change, said spokesperson Thomas Regnier, arguing that the Biden rule, if it took effect, would "undermine U.S. diplomatic relations with dozens of countries by downgrading them to second-tier status.”
European Union countries should be able to buy advanced AI chips from the U.S. without limitations, Regnier said.
“We cooperate closely, in particular in the field of security, and represent an economic opportunity for the U.S., not a security risk,” he said in a statement.
President Donald Trump listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event about investing in America in the Cross Hall of the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
