NVIDIA Blackwell stories

Nov 5, 2026

Moonshot AI sought Nvidia Blackwell access through European data centers amid US-China curbs

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, previously accused by the White House of accessing Nvidia advanced chips remotely in East Asia, sought access to Blackwell chips through data centers in Europe, according to sources.

Nov 5, 20264 sources

Nvidia chips pile up in Hong Kong as China withholds import approval

About 600,000 of Nvidia's advanced AI chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, as Beijing withholds import approval, according to Reuters.

Nov 5, 20263 sources

Top claims

▪Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model in July 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts system built to compete against artificial intelligence offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic
▪Renting advanced artificial intelligence hardware through foreign cloud data centers is legal under current U.S. Export Administration Regulations managed by the Bureau of Industry and Security
▪White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios alleged in July 2025 that Moonshot AI accessed advanced Nvidia server hardware remotely via a facility in Thailand

People involved

Donald Trump

Subtopics

AI chips2 Chip export controls2 Compute, chips & AI infrastructure2 Financial ties2 U.S. technology trade restrictions2 US–China AI competition2 AI data centers1 China-United States relations1 Chinese AI models1 Chinese Communist Party1 Hong Kong1 Michael Kratsios1 NVIDIA GPU1 OpenAI1 Semiconductor supply chains1 U.S. House of Representatives1 U.S.–China relations1

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