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US government rules restricting sales of advanced AI chips and chipmaking technology to China, aimed at slowing its AI and semiconductor progress.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick told the Wall Street Journal on 14 August that he had put it to Apple "plainly". No rule stops the purchase, and a Senate deadline falls on 21 August.
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Nvidia's revenue reached $215 billion in the latest fiscal year against $17 billion in 2021, and the labs that trained on those GPUs, OpenAI and Anthropic, are now asking Washington for the oversight Huang says engineering can handle.
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Buyers of $3bn of Z.ai paper accepted yields as low as minus 0.5 percent, roughly $15m a year on that size, in exchange for a conversion price only about an eighth above the last close before the placement.
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Bloomberg says executives have discussed an American majority shareholder. G42 already pulled Huawei gear out of its racks and wired US-specified monitoring into its own data centres, and each concession came with an expiry date.
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Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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