Speaker 1: Hey listeners, ting here your bite size expert and all
Speaker 1: things China's cyber and hacking coming to you straight from
Speaker 1: the epic center of Beijing Bites. It's August eighth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and let me tell you the US China
Speaker 1: tech war has been moving faster than a zero day
Speaker 1: exploit on a Friday night. First, let's talk hacking drama.
Speaker 1: The US National Nuclear Security Administration got a not so
Speaker 1: friendly knock on its door from a China backed hacker
Speaker 1: last month. Not your run of the mill ransomware, but
Speaker 1: a targeted cyber attack, highlighting once again that digital hygiene
Speaker 1: at nuclear agencies isn't just a suggestion, it's a survival skill.
Speaker 1: And while the US federal judiciary tries patching up its
Speaker 1: own infrastructure after cascading cyber attacks exposed sensitive case data
Speaker 1: coast to coast, Microsoft sitting high as a four trillion
Speaker 1: dollars monster, revealed two fresh vulnerabilities this week. Roger Cressey,
Speaker 1: ex White House cyber maven, summed up what's probably on
Speaker 1: every American sisadmin's mind. Microsoft's security woes make China's hackers
Speaker 1: feel right at home. Now, onto those infamous chips. Both
Speaker 1: silicon and policy. The Department of Justice just charged Chuan
Speaker 1: Gang and Shiwei Yang, two Chinese nationals, with exporting Nvidia's
Speaker 1: hone one hundred AI chips to China bypassing all the
Speaker 1: necessary licenses. That's the hardware, every mega language model, think
Speaker 1: GPT four and China's own upstarts craves. Meanwhile, Taiwan detained
Speaker 1: three for swiping trade secrets from TSMC. Nobody's named names yet,
Speaker 1: but you can bet every engineer has triple checked their NDAs.
Speaker 1: ENVID CEO Jensen one is sounding the alarm about America
Speaker 1: needing an energy policy and warning about Huawei, which is
Speaker 1: now shooking its own nine hundred ten z AI chips
Speaker 1: set to rival in Vidia's best over. In Congress, things
Speaker 1: are anything but quiet. Top Senate Democrats are absolutely fuming
Speaker 1: over the Trump administration's move to loosen restrictions and let
Speaker 1: AI chips flow to China again. They argue it's like
Speaker 1: giving Beijing a turbo boost for their AI ambitions. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, private US industry is loving the new
Speaker 1: AI regulatory sandboxes, because who doesn't want to test bleeding
Speaker 1: edge products without pesky oversight. Mince reports that while Congress
Speaker 1: fights over export controls. Wall Street's already placing bets on
Speaker 1: the next AI unicorn. Trump just threw a one hundred
Speaker 1: percent chip tariff into the mix. That's tough love for
Speaker 1: Chinese chip makers like SMIC, which is hustling to build
Speaker 1: out supply habs in Vietnam and Germany while watching revenue
Speaker 1: climb but net income sink thanks to costly US curbs.
Speaker 1: TSMC meanwhile is racking up subsidies and cashing in, proving
Speaker 1: the safest chip bet is to align with Washington Energy
Speaker 1: store Oridge also got hit with new FEO C rules.
Speaker 1: If you're a US company using too much Chinese tech,
Speaker 1: forget about tax credits for your shiny new power plant
Speaker 1: or battery farm. Norton rose Fulbright's breakdown says these rules
Speaker 1: are designed to force everyone to buy local or pay
Speaker 1: hefty penalties. By twenty thirty, developers will need seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of costs sourced from trusted countries, not China. As
Speaker 1: Shanghai veils new data centers for AI and ten Cent
Speaker 1: showcases more smart agents than gamer avatars, the strategic landscape shifts.
Speaker 1: Experts like Jeffrey Hinton and Eric Schmidt. At way I
Speaker 1: see call for U S China AI collaboration, though let's
Speaker 1: be honest, the handshake across the Pacific is more a
Speaker 1: thumb more than a bear hug. Looking ahead, industry leaders
Speaker 1: predict China will snag fifty five percent of its domestic
Speaker 1: AI market by twenty twenty seven, tariffs or not. For
Speaker 1: the US, expect tighter policies and a tough balancing act
Speaker 1: between innovation and national security. The next phase more hacks,
Speaker 1: more chips, and maybe just maybe a few moments of cooperation.
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