A seemingly reputable Amazon third-party seller appears to have duped at least 42 unsuspecting customers into paying $999 for a GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, shipping the buyers fanny packs instead. The scheme appears to have lured desperate buyers with the promise of the best graphics card on the market at just 50% of its MSRP, an offer that was, unsurprisingly, too good to be true.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule revising its licensing policy for semiconductor exports to China. BIS will now review export license applications for the Nvidia H200, AMD MI325X, and similar chips on a case-by-case basis provided certain security requirements are met.

A buyer in Spain has reported receiving a sealed DDR5 memory kit that contained counterfeit parts, raising fresh concerns about return fraud affecting high-value PC components sold as new through major online retailers, as AI-induced supply shortages cause prices to skyrocket. 

The United States has brought together a group of allied nations to launch Pax Silica, a strategic initiative aimed at securing global supply chains for artificial intelligence, critical minerals and advanced technologies amid growing competition with China.

One semiconductor project is complete, and others are making progress – that’s the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Thursday assessment of efforts under the CHIPS Act to strengthen the domestic semiconductor supply chain. GAO’s report outlined progress toward key project milestones for the 40 awards made to semiconductor manufacturers under the CHIPS Act.

Nvidia is piloting a new software feature that can verify the physical location of its AI chips, aiming to make illicit GPU diversion and smuggling significantly harder. The initiative, described in detail by Reuters, uses telemetry already present in data-centre deployments to estimate where a device is operating — without modifying the chip itself or embedding direct GPS-style hardware tracking.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he has informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that "the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China." Nvidia's H200 is a generation behind its latest Blackwell chip, which is considered among the most advanced and high-powered AI chips available anywhere.

This case study is an assessment of roughly one month of trade data scrutinizing Chinese exports to Russia of Tier 1 goods valued at roughly $40 millions of dollars.  Tier 1 goods are the most important items Russia needs to manufacture and build the precision-guided weapon systems critical to waging war in Ukraine.  

The cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and a recent change by Nvidia to its products could make it worse. AI data centers, on which tech giants globally are spending hundreds of billions of dollars, require chips from suppliers, like Nvidia, which relies on many different components and companies to create its coveted graphics processing units.

Tampa, FL — U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that two U.S. citizens and two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—all residing in the United States—have been charged with a conspiracy to illegally export cutting-edge NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which have artificial intelligence (AI) applications, to the PRC.