{
  "id": 20126155,
  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/how-jensen-huang-built-a-multibillion-dollar-business-to-let-chinese",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-15T05:55:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/jensen-huang-backdoor-ai-data-centers-a5e4499d?st=geQhk5"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nMeanwhile, 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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 7,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Will Jensen Huang’s downfall tip the scales against open-source AI?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/will-jensen-huangs-downfall-tip-the-scales-against-open-source-ai",
        "published": "2026-11-13T14:00:09.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Jensen Huang exit and US scrutiny imperil $3 billion in Chinese AI projects reliant on Nvidia",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/jensen-huang-exit-and-us-scrutiny-imperil-3-billion-in-chinese-ai",
        "published": "2026-11-14T02:55:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "As Jensen Huang leaves Nvidia, what really is the threat to the AI economy?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/as-jensen-huang-leaves-nvidia-what-really-is-the-threat-to-the-ai",
        "published": "2026-11-14T11:40:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Live Mint",
        "title": "‘Why did you cheat?’: How sharing Jensen Huang’s name became blessing and a headache for AI founder",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/why-did-you-cheat-how-sharing-jensen-huangs-name-became-blessing-and",
        "published": "2026-11-14T12:11:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Jensen Huang's resignation is a setback for US open models, as his funding gave open-source developers time to find their footing and will very likely dry up (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/jensen-huangs-resignation-is-a-setback-for-us-open-models-as-his",
        "published": "2026-11-14T18:05:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Moneyweb",
        "title": "Nvidia’s AI supremacy – and the cost of Jensen Huang’s scandal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/nvidias-ai-supremacy-and-the-cost-of-jensen-huangs-scandal",
        "published": "2026-11-15T02:00:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}