China’s Tencent uses ‘weakest link’ in export rules to access Nvidia’s top chips

Tencent is using a Japanese cloud service to access Nvidia Blackwell chips that remain banned to Chinese customers.

China is secretly building an AI chipmaking machine in Shenzhen. How its ‘Manhattan Project’ could change the AI era

China is reportedly building one of the most fundamental components of AI computing: the lithograph machines that make advanced AI chips using Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light source technology.
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Houston stopped a $160 million AI smuggling scheme. Then Trump surrendered to China. | Opinion

Why is Trump surrendering in our AI war with China, asks Chris Bronk, a professor at the UH Hobby School of Public Policy.