The realm of international corporate smuggling and espionage is one that I tend to forget exists, sitting here in relatively small-town England, doing normal things like a normal person. But that realm is there, and there really are people out there organising corporate smuggling operations for tens of millions worth of product.
I am, of course, talking about the world's hottest kind of corporate technology today: Nvidia AI accelerators. In the latest case of smuggling shenanigans, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) reports that it's seized "over $50 million in Nvidia technologies and cash" from some who had been attempting to smuggle H100 and H200 GPUs to China, both of which were until very recently banned from being shipped to China, and the former of which still is.
