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China has blocked imports of NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 graphics chip. The ban came while NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was in Beijing. The restriction applies to the chip’s use in gaming and animation markets.
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Trump has announced a new Council of Advisors on Science and Tech that will include Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Sergey Brin. The panel is co-chaired by David Sacks. The advisory group is intended to guide the administration on technology policy and innovation.
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China has approved the import of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, allowing Chinese AI firms such as ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to purchase the high-end GPUs. The approval covers several hundred thousand units, marking the first batch of H200 chips permitted for entry into the Chinese market.
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