The U.S. Department of Justice has accused a startup entrepreneur who claims to be a partner of Nvidia Cloud of illegally reselling Nvidia's top-tier AI chips and HP supercomputers to China through a third party. According to Forbes, the Department of Justice specifically pointed out in the indictment that Beijing is using AI to design militarized weapons, including "weapons of mass destruction" and "advanced artificial intelligence surveillance tools." This case involves national security crises, transnational forgery, and smuggling crimes, raising significant concern in U.S. political and tech circles. Core figures and transnational smuggling networks exposed The indictment states that Brian Raymond, the founder of the artificial intelligence infrastructure company Bitworks located in Huntsville, Alabama (, along with three other men, conspired to sell restricted chips to a Chinese company registered in Hong Kong. Brian Raymond's accomplices are two men.

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