How Jensen Huang built a multibillion-dollar business to let Chinese companies access Nvidia AI chips in SE Asian data centers, exploiting a gap in US sanctions (Wall Street Journal)

According to the Wall Street Journal, massive data centers in Southeast Asia have exploited a gap in U.S. sanctions to provide computing power to Chinese companies, which has served as a cover for alleged chip smuggling.

The Korean government stated that Nvidia's existing partnership commitments to Korea remain intact following the resignation of CEO Jensen Huang. The Ministry of Science and ICT held a meeting with Nvidia officials to confirm that plans to supply 260,000 GPUs and cooperate with Korean companies remain on track. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon noted that the parties agreed to continue ongoing projects, such as connecting Korean AI chips with Nvidia's platform through NVLink and building AI computing infrastructure.

Meanwhile, South China Morning Post and SCMP Tech report that leading Chinese artificial intelligence model companies are beginning to curb the cybersecurity capabilities of their most advanced open-weight models. This follows high-profile AI hacking incidents involving both U.S. and Chinese companies. Tencent Holdings recently reported that it stripped its latest Hy4 model of its cyber-hacking capabilities.

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