NVIDIA AI chips worth $1bn smuggled to China
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Trump’s new AI plan pushes deregulation, attacks “woke” models, and speeds chip factory development as OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia drive global infrastructure expansion.
Nvidia's most powerful chips are banned for sale to China.At least $1 billion in Nvidia computer chips were smuggled into China in the three-months span after President Trump imposed
The leaders of America’s chip giants cheered the president’s artificial intelligence orders, which could help boost the domestic semiconductor industry.
Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it would soon resume selling its H20 chips to China after a breakthrough with the Trump administration on regulations.
In automotive, MediaTek’s Dimensity Auto cockpit platform now integrates Nvidia RTX GPUs for advanced in-vehicle graphics and compute tasks. On the edge AI front, Nvidia’s TAO toolkit works alongside MediaTek’s NeuroPilot SDK, streamlining model training and deployment.
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Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised a $110 million funding round from investors including Nvidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. — a deal that more than triples the startup’s valuation to over $1 billion.
A critical flaw in NVIDIA's AI container toolkit (CVE-2025-23266) allows full host takeover, posing serious risks to cloud-based AI services.
SK Hynix flagged plans to lift spending this year on advanced chipmaking after posting a record quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by strong demand for artificial intelligence chips and customers stockpiling ahead of potential U.
AI is driving new capabilities across creative apps, productivity tools and gaming. Many of these features can now directly run on a laptop or desktop without the need for subscriptions or cloud access.