The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly $62M worth of export-controlled Nvidia A100s and H100s into China
The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.
PCMag Michael Kan
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Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China @FBIAtlanta Read more about this case: https://fbi.gov/... [image]
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Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China https://www.justice.gov/... Another Nvidia chip smuggling case, this time to Thailand. sounds like compliance worked this time [image]
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Another day, another case of Chinese spies stealing from the U.S. to advance their military capabilities. Thank you, @FBI, for your continued work protecting our national security.
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A national of China and two Americans are alleged to have sought millions of dollars' worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for illegal shipment to China through Thailand. https://www.justice.gov/... https://flipboard.social/.…
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This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark up one of the most important bills of 2026: The Chip Security Act. After more than a year in the making, we stand on the cusp of revolutionizing 🇺🇸's approach to export control — to PROMOTE U.S. AI. Here's how: 🧵 1/ [image]
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New Day, New Smuggling Charge. This Time: Thailand. The DOJ just unsealed charges against three individuals, a Chinese national and two US citizens, for conspiring to smuggle export-controlled AI chips to China through Thailand. The alleged scheme involved ordering 750 servers [i…
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Julian Ku
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So this is what lawprofs mean when they say you need evidence of mens rea, “a guilty mind”. [image]
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Ryan Fedasiuk
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2/ Smuggling AI chips to China is a serious problem. Last week, @TheJusticeDept charged the co-founder and CEO of Supermicro — one of the world's largest data server companies — with diverting $2.5 billion of U.S.-designed product. https://www.justice.gov/...