Speaker 1: Hey listeners, teing here, bringing you another high voltage Beijing
Speaker 1: bites forget trade talks over pandas and tariffs. Right now,
Speaker 1: its microchips, machine intelligence, and some eyebrow raising hacks driving
Speaker 1: the latest round of U S China tech showdowns. In
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, the battle for chip supremacy has escalated,
Speaker 1: with both Washington and Beijing turbo charging their semiconductor industry.
Speaker 1: According to Tom's Hardware, the US has been tightening export
Speaker 1: controls on AI chips, with the Department of Justice recently
Speaker 1: indicting two Chinese nationals for trying to reroute Nvidia H
Speaker 1: one hundreds through Malaysia and Singapore. Meanwhile, the Bureau of
Speaker 1: Industry and Security just dropped an eighty name entity list update.
Speaker 1: Think of it as a giant not Invited list for
Speaker 1: Chinese firms trying to buy critical US tech. The Biden
Speaker 1: era AI openness policy is history. Trump's administration just swapped
Speaker 1: it for hard nosed rules demanding rigorous due diligence on
Speaker 1: any investment headed for Chinese AI or semiconductor players. Treasury's
Speaker 1: new outbound investment screening, effective this January, is laser focused
Speaker 1: on advanced chip design supercomputing and AI software, basically the
Speaker 1: crown jewels of digital, military and economic power house. The
Speaker 1: industry reacting companies like Nvidia and a m D are
Speaker 1: revamping product lines, offering special light versions of chips for
Speaker 1: the Chinese market, while Intel and t SMC are literally
Speaker 1: pouring concrete in Arizona, New York, and even Germany to
Speaker 1: build friendshored fabs safe from geopolitics. But the real curveball
Speaker 1: China's risk fee gambit. At a recent risk fee summit
Speaker 1: in Shanghai, China rolled out its secret source, doubling down
Speaker 1: on open source CPU tech. Now Chinese reps are chairing
Speaker 1: most major risk fee committees, and Beijing just greenlit a
Speaker 1: wave of incentives to push risk fee across industries. The
Speaker 1: goal cut the cord to Western chip tech once and
Speaker 1: for all. But it's not just supply chains and rules.
Speaker 1: Cyber attacks are the new normal. Dark Trace warns that
Speaker 1: Chinese apts and RAS groups have been exploiting zero day
Speaker 1: flows like CVE DASH twenty twenty five, DASH nine nine
Speaker 1: four against US city infrastructure and government agencies. The healthcare
Speaker 1: sector is bleeding data with record breaches up to two
Speaker 1: a day, and then there's Lao Wang and his criminal
Speaker 1: crew recently profiled by gb hackers whose smishing attacks have
Speaker 1: stolen hundreds of millions in payment credentials. What's wild is
Speaker 1: their use of digital wallet tokenization, exploiting Apple Pay and
Speaker 1: Google Wallet to fly under the radar and launder money
Speaker 1: glid the strategic risk. Gladstone AI's report for the US
Speaker 1: government says AI labs are security equivalent of Swiss cheese,
Speaker 1: with Chinese hardware offering backdoor access and advanced espionage tactics
Speaker 1: that could theoretically paralyze data centers or reconstruct AI models
Speaker 1: just by sniffing electrical signals. Chris Ray of the FBI
Speaker 1: sums it up, China's cyber theft campaign is more damaging
Speaker 1: than ever, and the US is stuck reacting, not preventing.
Speaker 1: Looking ahead, expect deeper bifurcation or tech decoupling, with both
Speaker 1: sides dependent on each other for now. Experts like Chris
Speaker 1: Miller and William Matthews predict a split future, short term
Speaker 1: pain and skyrocketing costs, but potentially a world where two
Speaker 1: rival digital ecosystems evolve. If China cracks advance chip making,
Speaker 1: the global balance might tilt that's your bite for today.
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