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AI In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that he doesn't believe export controls will work to curb China's AI progress, and that the US is underestimating its power.

Hardware National security risks take a backseat as President Trump confirms a 15% levy on NVIDIA and AMD's AI chips to China.

AI NVIDIA firmly denies claims of secret tracking devices in AI chip shipments, asserting its innocence amid rising export tensions.

AI Just when NVIDIA thought it was in the clear to resume sales of its H20 AI GPUs to China, a new report suggests that Beijing is putting pressure on its major firms to avoid the chips.

AI That fresh order is on top of the 600,000 to 700,000 H20 chips already stockpiled.

AI NVIDIA is once again free to sell its H20 AI GPUs to China, and I can't tell if that's a positive or a negative.

AI A House committee described DeepSeek as a significant threat to US national security, citing its strong government ties and alleged unauthorized data collection.

AI Dario Amodei recently spoke on DeepSeek, China, and its potential future competing against US-based AI firms amid a chip ban imposed by Biden's administration.

AI breakthrough Chinese AI data centers are splitting their generative AI workloads across multiple data centers, potentially solving the issue of power limits and working around US-based blocks.

TRADE SECRETS Two former Samsung executives were jailed for allegedly stealing Samsung technologies worth approximately $3.2 billion to build a chip-making plant in China.