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Financial Times 14 Jul 2026 17 here now

Silicon shadows: inside the black market for AI chips | FT Film

As the US tightens export controls, a thriving black market is helping advanced AI semiconductors reach China. The FT's Eleanor Olcott investigates how resellers are bypassing US export controls and w

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Thanks for the video
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BUT AT WHAT COST
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"Right now the administration has not articulated a coherent strategy...." Sounds about right, for that you need a competent, intelligent leader.
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Opens coat up: "What are you buyin? What are you sellin?"
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@jyjy-w5z From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 9
It's rich that they can think and believe that they can be supreme judges of truth and goodness for humanity. It doesn't follow from their historical actions.
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Please do more long form videos about what’s going on with businesses. I like these
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Clearly the US has shown having that military dominance is a bad idea, and losing that dominance and the world moving to a more multipolar world then we could see the US move more to a co-operative world order.
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Remember when trump went to China to make DA BEST deal ever, and came how with nothing
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wtf this intro is sick! 🙏🏼
may you remember these words:
the more u buy 🟩
the more u save ⬛️
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More concerned with what outdated data center chips will sell for. Can those of us that want to run AI locally afford it.
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great content. can china hire top researchers and engineers from Nvidia and TSMC to design and build good GPU??
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I am so ready for this bubble to burst !!!!!!
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Tip of the iceberg. Plenty more to come😂🎉
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@hudsonmbg From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 10
by the way, doesn't the US also run clandestine operations in China?
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🙏🙏@financial times ❤
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@bob-007 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 3
Top 10! :)
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How many advanced chips were routed through Dubai? Dubai a hot bed and destination for smuggling.
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Thanks to U.S. export controls on AI chips, vast market opportunities have created for China domestic chip manufacturers, such as Huawei and Cambricon.
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@Eltener123 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 21
Export controls on GPUs are such a morally neutral law to break...
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@wiky-awan From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 29
"Necessity is the mother of invention"
That was one of the first thing we were taught in my early school classes.