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Malaysia customs seizes $12M in AI chips hidden in 30 mislabeled servers

Malaysian customs officials seized 30 servers packed with advanced AI chips worth over $12 million at Kuala Lumpur airport's free trade zone on October 15, after discovering the shipment was falsely declared as ordinary electronics. Officials say the shipment originated in one Asian country and was headed to another, using Malaysia as a transit point, and they believe it's linked to the same smuggling network behind a similar $13 million seizure in June and other cases totaling over $25 million.

Huawei, Alibaba unveil new AI chips ahead of Xi's US visit

Ahead of Xi Jinping's first U.S. state visit in over a decade, Huawei moved forward the release of its next AI chip by three quarters, Alibaba launched what it called China's most powerful AI processor, and DeepSeek reportedly assembled the largest known cluster of Huawei chips. The releases come as Washington continues restricting China's access to advanced Nvidia chips and chipmaking equipment.