2025-06-15
Not the most efficient way but definitely an option if in a pinch: Chinese engineers carrying hard-drives with data to Malaysia to use GPU infrastructure to train AI models : https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips
Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
2025-05-26
Interesting new paper by @gfw_report on the nature of provincial firewalls inside China, enclosed by the Great Firewall. To this date there is not much material on it but such research delivers valuable insights. [image]
The Guardian
Study: users in China's Henan province were on average denied access to 5x more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between Nov. 2023 and March 2025
once blocking 10× more domains than the GFW. 👉 https://gfw.report/... [image] @gfw_report : Henan Firewall now has an official Wikipedia page! Huge thanks to @Timfurry233 and many ...
2024-05-31
This story is a prime showcase of how far away TikTok was from having separated the non-CN and CN operations, despite them claiming otherwise for a while now. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance
TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version …
2020-12-26
Trump being tough on China seems to be not so tough: “So far, US companies have been given licences to supply Huawei, while European suppliers cannot,” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies
Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives …
2020-12-25
Trump being tough on China seems to be not so tough: “So far, US companies have been given licences to supply Huawei, while European suppliers cannot,” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies
Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives … Tweets: @anupamchander , @pastynome , @j_b_c16 , @chadbow...