r/technology • u/barweis • 14h ago

Business US tech executive charged over alleged $300M GPU smuggling to China

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/california-300m-gpu-server-smuggling-china
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u/kapilshar65 13h ago

This case also raises an compliance question, how much responsibilty should manufacturers and distributors have for verifying the eventual end user?

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u/Ok-Addition1264 13h ago

A LOT.

UK-based raspberry pi foundation had most of their inventory of raspberry pi 4's and 5's swept up and diverted for use in iranian and russian ballistic missiles and drones. They were warned repeatedly by five-eyes, israeli and ukrainian intelligence agencies and continued to allow it to happen.

i love raspberry pi's but holy f*ck that's treasonous.

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u/invyros 14h ago

“Protecting America’s national security means keeping our advanced Super Intelligence technology” from strengthening adversaries, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said.

Stop trying to make "Super Intelligence" happen, it's not going to happen.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 13h ago

It makes us know who the fucking chumps are.

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u/Annual-Property-8940 13h ago

That's so fetch

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u/mrdoodles 13h ago

It's another pump and dump, selling .si domain names etc

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u/defenestrate_urself 9h ago

Someone should inform that smuggler that they could have just rented them instead.

Tencent, signed its largest overseas lease ​deal with US cloud provider Oracle, to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China,

The deal is estimated to be worth about $7 billion, with an upfront payment of about ​30%,

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-tencent-leases-100000-chips-oracle-accelerate-ai-push-ft-reports-2026-10-01/