The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered AI companies, including major developers such as Alibaba and ByteDance, to halt all present and future orders for RTX Pro 6000D chips made by California-based Nvidia, the world’s market leader in advanced AI processors, the Financial Times reported.
History’s wheel is turning. China builds, India rises, BRICS surpasses the G7—while America punishes allies and empowers its Enemies.
In the global race to dominate AI, China is the tortoise to the U.S.’s hare—and we know who won that fabled contest.
Beijing’s pressure on domestic tech companies to stop buying computer chips from foreign makers is boosting share prices for Chinese companies making chips of all kinds.
China’s government is increasing pressure on domestic artificial intelligence (AI) companies to not buy AI chips from Nvidia, the U.S. company that produces most of the world’s state-of-the-art AI processors.
Last month, growth in China’s retail sales and industrial production slowed from June, confronting Beijing with both facets of its economic malaise at the same time.
The global price of lithium has rocketed up as much as 30 percent over the past two months as Chinese authorities made clear they would not renew the operating license of a key mine.
Beijing’s efforts to rein in the bloody price war that has battered the country’s automakers in recent months showed some effect last month.
The Chinese regime’s penchant to control and surveil all mechanisms, in order to exert and maintain its political will, is facing greater challenges from crypto technology, now supercharged by the U.S. embrace of it.
At its World Artificial Intelligence Conference in late July, China said it wanted to help create a worldwide organization to guide AI’s development, regulate it, and foster global cooperation in the AI revolution, officials said.