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Nvidia Manager and Supermicro Staff Indicted in Taiwan Over AI Server Smuggling to China
Nine people face charges of document forgery and breach of trust after allegedly helping hide billions of dollars' worth of restricted AI hardware shipped to China.

China's AI labs are renting Nvidia's banned chips from data centres in Southeast Asia
US export controls block China from buying Nvidia's most powerful chips. A legal grey zone lets Chinese firms rent the same computing power through servers in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan instead.

Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.

Meet the Seven People Deciding America's AI Policy Right Now
A senior White House official told Wired it is 'an argument with ten sides'. Here is who is pulling the strings on US AI rules, what each one wants, and what it means for the rest of us.

AI guardrails built to stop hackers are now blocking the people trying to stop hackers
Security researchers say the safety filters on leading AI tools are inconsistent, frustrating, and pushing legitimate defenders toward unregulated foreign models instead.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Found Over 10,000 Security Flaws, Then Got Restricted by the US Government
A powerful AI security tool is quietly reshaping how defenders hunt for software bugs. But its own creators are worried about who else might use it.

China's free AI model is tearing Trump's tech advisors apart
A new Chinese chatbot called Kimi has exposed a bitter split inside the White House over how America should respond to cheap, powerful AI from China.

The chip machine company caught between Washington and Beijing
ASML makes the only tools on Earth that can print the world's most advanced chips. Right now, it is trying not to upset either side of the US-China trade war.

The only company that makes AI's most important machine just raised its sales forecast again
ASML, the Dutch firm that builds the chip-printing machines the entire AI industry depends on, now expects up to 45 billion euros in sales this year. That is a huge jump from what it predicted just months ago.

A 'Very Small' Number of Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Have Made It to China, Says U.S. Official
Shipments have restarted, but only in tiny quantities. Here is what that means for Nvidia, China, and the tech cold war playing out between them.