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Authorities in Taiwan charged nine people, including an Nvidia distribution employee and former Supermicro staff, for smuggling advanced Blackwell AI servers into China. The operation involved ordering 130 Supermicro server units containing Blackwell chips, with over 70 servers reaching buyers before law enforcement intervened. Officials noted that while significant, the intercepted volume remains far below what is needed to construct a major AI training cluster.

The US Justice Department filed court documents concerning a Minnesota statute that penalizes software creators for non-consensual explicit image generation. Federal attorneys expressed concerns that conflicting state regulations could conflict with national legal standards.