TechMicrosoft Outage Hits Businesses as Nvidia Scandal Deepens

Bloomberg has learned that a Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, at the center of controversy involving Nvidia, obtained smuggled AI chips installed at a Shanghai data center linked to Megaspeed International. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s departure removes the industry’s most prominent opponent of US chip controls, setting the stage for a showdown over possible new restrictions that could speed China’s push for semiconductor self-sufficiency. Microsoft is still struggling to restore service.