Sources: the US Commerce Department finished reviewing Nvidia's H200 China license, but the State Department wants tougher restrictions, delaying final approval
The state department has pushed for close scrutiny before approving export licences — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
Sources: China deepens its probe into Meta's Manus acquisition in December to investigate cross-border currency flows, tax accounting, and overseas investments
Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore
Commerce ministry assessing whether deal for Chinese-founded group violates technology export controls
Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports
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Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in
Nvidia (NVDA.O) has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in …
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency
but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schr...
President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut
President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs — Top Chinese companies are training …
Sources: SMIC is testing China's first domestically produced deep-ultraviolet lithography machine, aiming to reduce reliance on western chipmaking technology
SMIC takes significant step on road to wafer fab equipment self-sufficiency Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : China's SMIC Pilots Domestic Lithography Machine To Push 7nm Chips As Beijin...
Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear
Fabrication plants serving Huawei push to increase production as US cuts off access to Nvidia's top processors
Sources: China's H20 curbs were triggered by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's not selling China the “best stuff” remark, which officials found “insulting”
Comments by US commerce secretary trigger Chinese regulatory effort to stop tech groups buying H20 processors
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 version for China, modified to meet President Trump's tightened export controls, as soon as September
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Q&A with Feng Ji, the founder of top Chinese quant fund Baiont, on using AI to develop trading strategies, its small team, China's quant landscape, and more
The founder of one of China's top-performing quant funds explains how his team of young computer scientists are using machine learning to disrupt the sector X: @zijing_wu X: Zijing...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules
Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
Sources: DeepSeek and its hedge fund parent, High-Flyer Capital, forbid some R&D staff from traveling abroad freely, asking them to hand in their passports
DeepSeek's sudden rise to global stardom has earned the startup a status akin to national treasure in China. Bluesky: @bribox Bluesky: @bribox : Yeah, totally not state-sponsored. ...
Sources: DeepSeek has shown little intention to further commercialize its tech in the near term, instead focusing on model development and building AGI
160-person team focused on developing new models TechRadar : OpenAI calls on US government to ban DeepSeek, calling it ‘state-subsidized’ and ‘state-controlled’ Diya Lal / Tech in ...