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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns — downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow Citing several sources… …

Jul 20, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale

A new AI model from Chinese firm Moonshot AI has had its "DeepSeek moment," causing major disruption in the global AI market and spooking Western developers. Kimi K3 is an open-weight model, with 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weight AI model ever released. …

Jul 21, 2026 · Jon Martindale
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China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow The measures would be … …

Jul 21, 2026 · Anton Shilov
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China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost

… The H20 is Nvidia's export-compliant AI processor developed specifically for the Chinese market after US export restrictions prevented sales of more powerful GPUs. …

Jul 6, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

… According to Huang, this happened much later, though again, he talks only about Nvidia's direct sales to Chinese customers. Indeed, Chinese developers are increasingly relying on local hardware, with companies like Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads, and MetaX advancing both silicon and software. …

May 3, 2026 · Anton Shilov
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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

… And even if that’s the case, Chinese firms still continue making frontier AI models and remain competitive against American AI tech companies. The chip ban did have a negative effect on Chinese AI development, in that it delayed its progress for a few years. …

May 30, 2026 · Jowi Morales
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OpenAI bans China-linked ChatGPT accounts that amplified US data center electricity price backlash — used AI-generated cartoons to stoke fears over U.S. data center energy costs

… The Tech and Tariffs cluster poked fun at U.S.-China competition around tariffs, rare earths, AI, 5G, and industrial resilience, and generated bulk comment batches in English, Italian, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese, the latter aimed at audiences in Taiwan. …

Jun 11, 2026 · Luke James