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Supermicro says it assisted Taiwanese authorities in server smuggling bust that led to three arrests — company issues statement on working with US, Taiwan to block illicit diversion of servers to China

…government, and presumably Taiwanese authorities, have been cracking down on server smuggling to China over the past several months. In March, the Trump Administration proposed a strict licensing system for advanced AI…

May 28, 2026 · Jake Roach

Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to other countries

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang served as a guest speaker at Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems course and discussed the hardware that powers AI systems today. One of the topics covered in…

May 17, 2026 · Jowi Morales

More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026 — bipartisan opposition mounts nationwide over fears of soaring power and water costs

…The number of projects being blocked across the nation is concerning for both the federal government, which is competing against China to gain the edge in AI technology, and AI tech companies…

Jun 13, 2026 · Jowi Morales

China unifies tech sector to build grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX — Beijing's forced chip and satellite alliance announced a week before Musk’s AI1 reveal

The Chinese government quietly approved the Space Computing Industry Innovation Center in early June, which aims to bring together rocket and satellite manufacturers, semiconductor fabs, and AI tech companies to build a…

Jun 20, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first reading

…to AI tech giants Microsoft and Amazon — has passed a one-year pause as its studies the community impact of data centers. Most of these are just temporary delays, as governments try…

Jun 15, 2026 · Jowi Morales

U.S. gov't orders Anthropic to disable its newest AI models worldwide due to security threats — ban on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 bars access by any foreign national, even its own employees

Anthropic disabled its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, for every customer worldwide on Friday, after the U.S. government issued an export control directive barring…

Jun 13, 2026 · Luke James

Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production

Samsung and its largest labor coalition are sitting down for government-mediated negotiations over the next two days, the Korea Herald reported, with just 10 days remaining before a planned general strike…

May 11, 2026 · Luke James

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech

…Taiwan, trade, and tariffs China's latest round of rare-earth export controls explained Analyzing Washington's new AI accelerator export rules U.S. government plans tariff exemptions for TSMC Nvidia wants…

May 30, 2026 · Jowi Morales

China adds homegrown AI chips to 'secure and reliable' procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues

…The Xinchuang program had previously focused on replacing Intel and AMD CPUs and Oracle databases in government systems, but AI accelerators are the newest addition to that. Cambricon's absence stands out…

May 27, 2026 · Luke James

China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips