US Charges Four With Conspiring To Export Nvidia AI Chips to China

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US authorities have arrested four men for conspiring to violate export controls on AI chips to China. Two American and two Chinese citizens face decades in prison if convicted on charges of smuggling Nvidia GPUs to buyers in China, which is locked in a race with the US to achieve AI supremacy.

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00:00The U.S. has arrested and charged four people with violating export controls on AI chips

00:05to China.

00:07Two American and two Chinese citizens were busted for allegedly conspiring to sell millions

00:11of U.S. dollars' worth of NVIDIA GPUs to buyers in China.

00:16One of them is a senior executive at a U.S. AI cloud company.

00:20The arrests come amid tightened restrictions on exports of high-powered chips needed for

00:23artificial intelligence systems.

00:25China and the U.S. are in a race to reach AI supremacy, with NVIDIA's chips currently

00:30the most powerful on the market.

00:32If convicted, the suspects face decades behind bars.

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