Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White House’s top technology adviser defended the move in the administration’s first public testimony discussing the latest export control measures. Allowing China…
Rather than seeing it as an olive branch, many Chinese commenters interpreted the move as a sophisticated Trojan horse-style trap that aimed to make Beijing dependent on American technologies in advanced semiconductors and other chokepoint sectors. Trump’s green light for the H200 – a template that he said would be applied to other US chip…
The US has officially green-lighted Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, as the Trump administration seeks to strike a balance between curtailing China’s AI progress and maintaining American AI firms’ global market share. The H200, US chip giant Nvidia’s second-most-advanced AI processor, can be shipped to China under conditions that include…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Washington and Beijing to resolve their differences, deeming economic decoupling “naive.” He believes the US-China relationship is crucial for global stability, advocating for technological independence alongside economic interdependence. Huang is optimistic about resuming sales of advanced chips in China, a market worth billions, despite geopolitical complexities. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…
Good morning. There’s been a recurring theme to some of the AI conversations I’ve had this week: using the technology to find things in sprawling corporations. For all that agentic AI promises for the future, several executives told me that the real value right now is in locating assets—documents, devices, intellectual property, et cetera—within companies. …
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek unveiled a groundbreaking training method, “Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections,” potentially slashing AI development costs. This innovation challenges the notion that advanced AI necessitates massive computing power, following their previous success with the R1 model. The breakthrough intensifies industry debates on scaling AI, with expectations high for DeepSeek’s next model release. Chinese AI startup…
“The Big Short“ investor Michael Burry has a China warning for the US. Burry, one of the most influential Wall Street investors, has warned that America’s reliance on power-hungry Nvidia chips will hand China victory in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. In a recent post shared on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter), he pointed…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest stories about AI developments in China this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language…
Chinese chip designer Moore Threads Technology has unveiled a suite of new products, including its next generation of chip architecture and artificial intelligence chips as it looks to challenge US chip-making heavyweights Nvidia and AMD. The Beijing-based firm, hailed as China’s “little Nvidia”, introduced two forthcoming chips Huashan and Lushan, named after two famous Chinese…
Nvidia stock (NVDA) jumped as much as 3.8% in Friday trading following a Reuters report that the Trump administration began its review of Nvidia H200 chip exports to China and news that US antitrust agencies cleared Nvidia’s investment into Intel (INTC). The move higher put shares of the world’s largest company on track for a…