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An investigation found two little-known Chinese firms cleared to buy Nvidia H200 chips had empty offices and ties to sanctioned Chinese military suppliers, while about two dozen firms have received licenses.

Concerns are being raised over vetting of Chinese firms cleared for Nvidia H200 AI chips after New Matrix, an approved firm, appeared to have no real office or online presence.

Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B into Arete-27B, cutting propaganda answers from 22 percent to under one percent while keeping general capabilities intact and releasing the model under Apache 2.0.

Chinese video-generation startup Sand.ai has completed a $200 million Series A+ financing round, bringing its fundraising over the past 10 months to $300 million and pushing its valuation above $1 billion, the company said.

The New York Times reports China's Ministry of State Security recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather information on American AI chips and influence Nvidia, whose CEO is Jensen Huang.