Three defendants face smuggling and export-control charges after allegedly routing $170 million in Commerce Control List servers through Thai front companies while signing false end-user certifications. IN BRIEF: Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English were charged on…
The Salem company is asking buyers to treat cooperative safety and a 2027 availability window as the bridge from Digit 4’s named North American sites to fleet scale, while the order figure remains conditional. IN BRIEF: On September 15, 2026,…
Figure has published a multi-billion-dollar compute commitment and a 2027 start window for Vera Rubin capacity, while the GPU delivery, the Nscale investment terms, and any humanoid supply-chain work remain prospective. IN BRIEF: On September 3, 2026, Figure announced a…
The Hong Kong affiliate stays on the Entity List, still subject to a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and a presumption of denial, after two addresses were cut and five were left in place. IN BRIEF:…
The country-group upgrade is not a general opening: advanced-computing items stay licensed to the United Arab Emirates except for government agencies, Group 42 Holding Ltd and Core42 Technology Projects LLC, and eight named U.S. AI firms, and the G42 and…
A Stuttgart supplier’s foreign-produced sensors and automotive software, sent to an Entity List party, drew a mid-eight-figure Export Administration Regulations penalty that a voluntary self-disclosure did not wipe out. IN BRIEF: On June 17, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s…
The May 2025 decision not to enforce the AI Diffusion Rule’s new compliance requirements did not, on BIS’s account, lift the preexisting license requirement for advanced computing items destined to entities headquartered in Country Group D:5 or Macau, or to…
Design houses that have not yet filed to join the approved integrated-circuit designer list keep authorized status, and the foundry presumption pathway that depends on it, for roughly eight more months. IN BRIEF: In a final rule effective April 7,…
A January 15, 2026 rule opens a discretionary license path for chips under 21,000 total processing performance and 6,500 GB/s total DRAM bandwidth, but only for exports from the United States, and only if supply, security, and U.S. lab-testing certifications…
A January 15, 2026 rule opens a discretionary license path for chips under 21,000 total processing performance and 6,500 GB/s total DRAM bandwidth, but only for exports from the United States, and only if supply, security, and U.S. lab-testing certifications…