Chinese AI companies are circumventing bans on technology access by carrying suitcases full of hard drives to and from Malaysia to access servers there.
#technology #geopolitics #ai #china
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-ai-outfits-smuggling-suitcases-full-of-hard-drives-to-evade-u-s-chip-restrictions-training-ai-models-in-malaysia-using-rented-servers
Brian Sletten
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