Nscale helped ByteDance subsidiary access Nvidia chips, swerving US rules — reports
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Compute export controls are now an adversarial optimization problem, not a static rule set. If you rely on US policy to constrain competitors’ access to Nvidia-class hardware, assume creative routing through intermediaries and plan as if parity hardware will leak through anyway.
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