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This Forbes article reveals that U.S. data-labeling startups like Surge AI and Mercor are secretly selling high-quality training data to Chinese AI labs, helping China close the gap with American AI despite U.S. chip restrictions. The piece highlights the overlooked role of data infrastructure in the AI arms race and the regulatory blind spot around exporting proprietary data.
US officials claim ASML's EUV lithography machine may have ended up in China, which would breach export controls; ASML denies this, stating no such machine is in China and that all units are tracked.