The New York Times has laid out how Inspur, the state-owned server maker that has been on the US entity list since 2023, keeps getting access to advanced AI chips. The mechanism is not exotic. It is corporate structure: a spread of freshly incorporated subsidiaries and partner firms that are not themselves listed, and that can therefore buy what the parent cannot. This is the … [Read more...] about Inspur Is Routing Around US AI Chip Controls Through a Network of New Subsidiaries
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US to Raise AI-Directed Cyberattacks at September 24 China Talks as Beijing Returns to Export Controls
The September 24 round of US-China technology talks has picked up an agenda item that did not exist in the last cycle. According to Nikkei Asia's sources, the American side plans to raise the prevention of AI-directed cyberattacks, meaning intrusions where the planning and execution sit with a model rather than a person at a keyboard. Beijing, for its part, is expected to … [Read more...] about US to Raise AI-Directed Cyberattacks at September 24 China Talks as Beijing Returns to Export Controls