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Chinese State Bank Funded Illegal Nvidia Chip Servers Despite US Ban
Export controls work until someone with a state checkbook decides they don't. Chinese state-backed lender financed servers packed with Nvidia chips that were supposed to stay out of China under U.S. export restrictions
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Trump Lets Big AI Police Itself as Safety Rules Go Voluntary
The companies building the most powerful AI systems just got permission to grade their own homework. Trump announced a voluntary AI safety accord with six major tech companies, calling for "self-regulation" of frontier AI risks instead of federal oversight.
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Google's Top Lobbyist Admits Big Tech Can't Police Itself
Google's global affairs chief just told regulators what they want to hear — that Big Tech can't be trusted to police itself. James Manyika, Google SVP for Global Affairs, told Bloomberg that AI safety requires a "collective effort" beyond any single company
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Amazon CEO Compares Data Center Bans to Losing World War II
Amazon just compared data center NIMBYism to losing World War II, which tells you everything about how desperate Big Tech is getting.
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Lockheed Martin Brings ChatGPT Into America's Most Broken Warplane
The world's most expensive weapons program just hired ChatGPT's parent company to fix its math homework.
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Feds Missed $300M in Smuggled Nvidia Chips for Eight Years
The world's most valuable compute is now moving through the same shadow channels as counterfeit handbags, and it took the feds eight years to notice.
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Amazon Tells Communities: Stop Blocking Our Data Centers or Pay the Price
Amazon just published a 3,000-word manifesto telling local communities to get out of the way of its data center expansion, or else. Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman published a blog warning that blocking data centers threatens U.S. economic and national security
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California Man Ran $300M Black Market for Banned Nvidia AI Chips to China
The illegal AI chip pipeline just got a price tag — and it's bigger than most startups will ever raise. Federal prosecutors arrested a California man for smuggling $300 million worth of Nvidia AI chips to China, packaged in computer servers to evade export controls
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Chinese Cities Are Stockpiling Blackwell Chips Before Trump's Export Ban
The export controls were supposed to box China out of advanced AI — turns out local governments just became the world's most ambitious chip smugglers.
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FTC Targets OpenAI and Anthropic Using 50-Year-Old Consumer Laws
The White House throws a voluntary AI safety party on Tuesday, and by Wednesday the FTC's already drafting subpoenas. The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and unnamed others over AI safety claims and consumer risk, with plans to demand documents and executive testimony in coming weeks
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TSMC Plans Third Texas Plant Before Second One Even Opens
The world's most critical chipmaker just signaled that US AI demand is so relentless it needs a third Texas campus before the second one is even running at full capacity.
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OpenAI Catches Rival AI Lab Stealing Its Models at Industrial Scale
The model extraction arms race just went public, and it's not script kiddies probing the API — it's a billion-dollar AI lab. OpenAI accused Moonshot AI of orchestrating thousands of attempts to extract hidden reasoning data from its GPT models, disclosed in a Wednesday blog post
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Tencent Bypasses US Chip Ban With 100,000 Oracle GPUs
China's internet giants are building their AI empires on American cloud infrastructure, and Oracle just became the landlord. Tencent signed a five-year deal with Oracle to lease 100,000 AI chips, accessing Oracle's Southeast Asia data centers as the WeChat owner races against ByteDance and Alibaba
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OpenAI Catches Chinese AI Startup Stealing Its Model's Intelligence
When your AI learns by cheating off someone else's homework, it turns out the teacher notices. OpenAI disrupted a model distillation campaign targeting its models, linked to Chinese AI company Moonshot AI and its Kimi assistant
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Countries Are Outsourcing AI Safety to the Companies They Should Be Regulating
The companies building the most powerful AI systems want to grade their own homework, and most countries are letting them. Former researchers from Anthropic and OpenAI are publicly warning that neither company is "acting responsibly" and that they're "gambling with our lives"
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Trump Wants an AI Force While OpenAI Begs Someone to Pump the Brakes
The man who brought you Space Force wants an AI Force—while the people building frontier models are begging someone to slow them down.
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Chinese AI Hardware Stocks Drop 30% as Infrastructure Spending Freezes
The AI infrastructure boom just learned what every gold rush eventually does: you still have to show the gold. Chinese tech hardware stocks closed their worst quarter on record, driven by a July selloff when investors started questioning AI valuations
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DeepSeek Just Handed China's Chip Industry the Nvidia Escape Plan
The company that proved you could train frontier models on a shoestring budget just opened the door for everyone else to leave Nvidia behind. DeepSeek released open-source software tools built with Huawei to program AI chips, directly challenging Nvidia's CUDA moat
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OpenAI Lost the Google Wars to a Dress Company Named Dots
OpenAI just proved you can have the best AI in the world and still lose the SEO war to a women's clothing retailer. OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay, always-on AI agents that work across projects after you close the chat, represented as colorful blob avatars
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