Oracle will lease 100,000 restricted AI accelerators to Tencent in a five-year deal worth $7 billion, exploiting a loophole in US export controls.
Tencent will reportedly pay $7 billion over five years to access 100,000 AI chips in Oracle data centers located in Southeast Asia.
Nvidia plans to ship 500,000 Blackwell workstation GPUs to China quarterly, potentially generating $26 billion in annual revenue by bypassing US export controls.
Beijing is considering allowing ByteDance and Alibaba to purchase Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips, potentially marking a shift in China's AI hardware procurement strategy.
AMD faces scrutiny over the alleged diversion of restricted RFSoC chips to China, which are reportedly being sold there at a fraction of their U.S. market price.
Senate leader Chuck Schumer has warned the Trump administration against easing export controls on AI chips to China ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington.
US export controls on AI are driving cybersecurity professionals toward less secure Chinese models, which are cheaper and lack the restrictive guardrails of American counterparts.
House Select Committee chair John Moolenaar is pushing for stricter AI chip export controls to prevent restricted Chinese firms from accessing advanced US technology.
A new C4ADS report reveals that billions of dollars worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips are entering China through shell companies, transit hubs, and research contracts.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed stricter US export controls on AI hardware to curb China's technological growth, sparking a diplomatic response from Beijing.
Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology reported a 1,998% revenue surge to $183.9 million in the first half of 2026, benefiting from restricted access to Western hardware in China.
Anthropic has restricted access to its Claude Mythos 5.1 model for the UK AI Safety Institute, sparking security and economic concerns in the British government.
