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California man charged with smuggling $300 million in restricted AI hardware to China

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Greg Lui is accused of procuring servers with Nvidia GPUs from U.S. manufacturers and sending them to China via Singapore and Malaysia.

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  1. Courthouse News Service

    California man charged with smuggling $300 million in restricted AI hardware to China (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    Courthouse News Service's feed description

    Greg Lui is accused of procuring servers with Nvidia GPUs from U.S. manufacturers and sending them to China via Singapore and Malaysia.

  2. Bloomberg

    Man Charged by US With Illegally Shipping Nvidia Chips to China (opens Bloomberg)

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    Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth of Nvidia Corp. artificial intelligence chips to China in violation of US export controls.

  3. Townhall

  4. Quartz

    California tech executive arrested for allegedly smuggling $300M in Nvidia AI chips to China (opens Quartz)

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    Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., faces charges of conspiracy, smuggling, and money laundering over an alleged scheme from 2023 to 2024

  5. The Register

    Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval (opens The Register)

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    Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’

  6. Insider

    California man smuggled $300 million in Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say (opens Insider)

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    Prosecutors say Yiu Kong Lui conspired with foreign shipping companies to trick US manufacturers into selling him the chips.

  7. The Guardian

    US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China (opens The Guardian)

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    Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of computer servers to China , the Department of Justice announced.

  8. Los Angeles Times

    California man's smuggling scheme sent $300 million in AI hardware to China, feds say (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    The owner of a San Gabriel Valley-based technology company was arrested Thursday after federal prosecutors charged him with smuggling more than $300 million worth of restricted computer hardware to China.