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Two arrested for smuggling AI chips to China — Nvidia says no to kill switches


The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping "tens of millions of dollars" worth of high-performance AI chips to China.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping “tens of millions of dollars” worth of high-performance AI chips to China. The DOJ said Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang were arrested in California on August 2 and charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act, a felony that carries a statutory penalty of a maximum of 20 years in prison. A review of export documents by the DOJ found that ALX Solutions sent chips and other tech to shipping and freight-forwarding companies in Singapore and Malaysia, but received payments from entities in Hong Kong and China in return.

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