Speaker 1: Welcome back, listners. This is ting with Beijing bites you'll
Speaker 1: go to for all things cyber code and clever. In
Speaker 1: the ongoing US China tech war, settle in because the
Speaker 1: past two weeks have been straight out of a John
Speaker 1: Lacarey novel with a dash of Silicon Valley swagger, let's
Speaker 1: launch right into the big headline. The Trump administration made
Speaker 1: waves by lifting the ban on Nvidia's H twenty chip
Speaker 1: exports to China. Yes, you heard me, The same chips
Speaker 1: designed to skate just under US export restrictions are now
Speaker 1: fair game for Chinese companies. National Economic advisor Kevin Hassett
Speaker 1: says the move is partly to stem a black market
Speaker 1: bonanza for high powered chips, but also US chip makers
Speaker 1: argue to keep their Chinese customers hooked on American tech.
Speaker 1: The goal outpaced China through relentless reinvestment in R and
Speaker 1: D while dragging out China's drive for chip self sufficiency
Speaker 1: risk key business. This isn't a full on tech datante,
Speaker 1: though the AI Export Action Plan promises to patch any
Speaker 1: holes in current restrictions, especially on the high end tools
Speaker 1: that China needs to build its own semiconductors. Basically, Washington
Speaker 1: is handing out swimming lessons but keeping the deep end
Speaker 1: roped off. Of course, Beijing wasted no time firing back.
Speaker 1: Days after the export door creaked open, China cyberspace administration
Speaker 1: holed in Nvidia execs in for a grilling, demanding answers
Speaker 1: about alleged backdoor features in those H two to one chips.
Speaker 1: Chinese regulators site concerns that these chips could be tracked
Speaker 1: or even shut down remotely, a plot twist straight out
Speaker 1: of a cyber thriller. They invoked their own cybersecurity and
Speaker 1: data laws, warning that foreign tech will get intense scrutiny
Speaker 1: moving forward. In Nvidia flat out denied the existence of
Speaker 1: any backdoors. But in this trustful exercise, nobody's exactly feeling
Speaker 1: warm and fun. On the cyber battlefront. Both countries have
Speaker 1: been lobbing accusations like digital grenades. Microsoft just revealed that
Speaker 1: hacking groups tied to national with cool names like Salt
Speaker 1: Typhoon breached a U. S. Army National Guard network for
Speaker 1: ten months, barely missing a cyber season finale by going
Speaker 1: un detected for nearly a year. China meanwhile accused the
Speaker 1: US of exploiting Microsoft exchange floors to hack Chinese defense contractors,
Speaker 1: effectively hosting the cyber Blaine flag right back. This tip
Speaker 1: for TAT experts say erodes already fragile global corporation against
Speaker 1: cybercrime and pushes both nations to double down on digital
Speaker 1: defense industry ripple effects. American cloud giants are pulling up stakes.
Speaker 1: Amazon Web Services shuttered its Shanghai AI lab, admitting that
Speaker 1: rising US China tentions have made cross border research too risky.
Speaker 1: Yet Chinese firms like Huawei and AI champions deep Seek
Speaker 1: are pushing ahead, riding government support and growing their domestic
Speaker 1: AI market. According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese
Speaker 1: companies could grab a fifty five percent domestic AI market
Speaker 1: share by twenty twenty seven, no small feat given the headwinds.
Speaker 1: Security experts are warning that the stakes go far beyond
Speaker 1: stolen emails or slow internet. The Street highlighted that suspicious
Speaker 1: code has been found in Chinese made tech deployed in
Speaker 1: critical US infrastructure think power grids and pipelines. One form
Speaker 1: at Tech CEO said this is the trojan horse moment
Speaker 1: America should be sweating, but with the U s still
Speaker 1: heavily dependent on Chinese hardware unplugging isn't so simple, So
Speaker 1: what's the future forecast? Expect this digital slog to intensify.
Speaker 1: The US will close remaining loopholes, but likely keep the
Speaker 1: text use flowing, hoping to buy time and maybe influence.
Speaker 1: China will accelerate domestic innovation and keep up the pressure
Speaker 1: for tech self reliance and for cyber sleuths like us.
Speaker 1: This means more intrigue, more alliances, and more late night patching.
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