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Uncle Sam just slammed the door on China's AI shopping spree. The U.S. added 80 companies to its trade blacklist Tuesday, targeting firms that have been gobbling up American chips like they're going out of style.
The Commerce Department's move primarily hits Chinese companies, including some clever operators who've been playing hide-and-seek with export rules. Take Nettrix Information Industry – they grabbed headlines in 2024 when investigators caught them doing a corporate costume change to dodge restrictions.
The story of Nettrix reads like a tech thriller. After the U.S. banned their parent company Sugon for military ties, executives simply started a new company, borrowed the old tech, and kept the same customers. They even shared office space with their "former" colleagues – subtle as a brick through a server room window.
But Nettrix isn't alone in this game of corporate musical chairs. Inspur Group, China's cloud computing giant, tried a similar trick. When the Biden administration blacklisted the parent company in 2023, Inspur just moved down the street – literally one mile away – and kept shopping for American chips.
The new restrictions target 54 Chinese companies, plus others from Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, UAE, and Taiwan. Howard Lutnick, commerce secretary, cut straight to the chase: "We will not allow adversaries to exploit American technology to bolster their own militaries."
China isn't taking this lying down. Their Foreign Ministry blasted the move as a violation of international law. Meanwhile, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, now on the naughty list, claims innocence louder than a cooling fan in a server room.
The U.S. didn't just expand the list – it supercharged it. New global restrictions mean these companies can't dodge the rules by shopping through other countries. It's like putting a bouncer at every entrance to the tech club, not just the front door.
This crackdown hits where it hurts: servers. These machines form the backbone of AI development, and China's tech giants just lost their VIP pass to America's chip buffet.
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