
Nvidia's H200 Chips Reach China - Congress Isn't Happy
Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.
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Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.

China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing restrictions on overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai's most advanced AI models, mirroring the export control regime Beijing has spent years fighting.

OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.

The Commerce Department reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, giving NVIDIA, AMD, and Cerebras a clear path to supply AI chips and servers without per-shipment export licenses.

DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip, confirmed by Reuters sources - the first semiconductor project in the lab's history, driven by US export controls that cut off China from Nvidia hardware and HBM memory.

The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, restoring global access today while industry partners draft a four-dimension jailbreak severity framework.

Claude Mythos 5 is the full release of Anthropic's restricted Mythos family - same weights as Fable 5 but without safety classifiers for cybersecurity and biology, at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens.

The Commerce Department partially lifts its two-week export ban on Anthropic's most powerful model, clearing Mythos 5 for ~100 US companies and agencies while keeping Fable 5 blocked.

Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.

The White House won't lift its ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 until the model can be made jailbreak-proof. Security experts explain why that condition is technically impossible.

New reporting reveals Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a Fable 5 jailbreak on a routine White House call, triggering a 90-minute ultimatum that shut down Anthropic's two best models worldwide.