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China has banned its major tech firms from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, tightening its grip on sensitive technology imports amid rising tensions with the US. Nvidia’s advanced products, including the RTX Pro 6000D and H20 models, were gaining lots of attention from Chinese firms eager to use the powerful technology.
The Cyberspace Administration of China has directed companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to terminate their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.
Reuters has reported that the deal, transferring TikTok's U.S. assets to U.S. owners from China's Bytedance, is similar to an agreement worked out earlier this year, but which was shelved after Trump announced steep tariffs on Chinese goods.
American companies have played a key role in developing technology used by China to spy on its citizens and commit human rights abuses, according to a report.
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Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.
In the chip war with the United States, China has proven itself to be an unrelenting force, but Washington still holds key levers of power – even over non-American firms operating in the world’s second largest economy.
China orders top tech firms like Bytedance and Alibaba to halt using Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D AI chips, intensifying US-China tech tensions
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k
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China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws, significantly escalating trade tensions with US
China significantly escalated its trade standoff with the United States Monday, saying that tech giant Nvidia, the most valuable company on the US stock market and a key provider of artificial-intelligence chips,
China's space programs, investments, and cooperative endeavours with third parties have accelerated so much in the past 10 years that a new report from the Commercial Space Federation indicates it's poised to become the leading country in aerospace technology.
The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the United States.