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Nine Charged in Taiwan Over Smuggled AI Servers Destined for China, Nvidia and Super Micro Staff Among Accused
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine individuals, including employees from Nvidia and Super Micro, with illegally exporting banned high-end AI servers — specifically Nvidia B300 GPUs — to mainland China in violation of U.S. export controls. A total of 74 servers were successfully smuggled through routes involving Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong, while a further 56 servers were intercepted and remain in Taiwan. Prosecutors are seeking maximum five-year sentences for four of the defendants, including an Nvidia manager identified as a key figure in authorising the illegal releases.
White House Points Finger at China's Moonshot AI Over Alleged Anthropic Model Theft
A senior White House official, Michael Kratsios, has accused China's Moonshot AI of using large-scale distillation of Anthropic's models to develop its impressive Kimi K3 AI, rather than genuine innovation. US officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have warned that such covert IP theft could result in sanctions and Entity List designations. China has not responded to the allegations, and Beijing typically denies such accusations.
US Government Forces Anthropic to Pull Its Two Most Powerful Models Worldwide Over Foreign National Access Concerns
The US government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to block access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. Because compliance would be impossible without disabling the models entirely, Anthropic suspended global access to both, just days after rolling out Fable 5 for free to millions of users. Anthropic disputes the justification, stating the government's evidence amounts to a narrow, already-known jailbreak, and argues that applying this standard industry-wide would effectively halt all new frontier model deployments.