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Nvidia Shares Jump as China Gets Limited H200 Chip Access

7/9/2026

Summary

China Approves Chips

China allows Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase limited Nvidia H200 AI chips, with requests for quantities and purposes and a cap of 200,000 chips.
Nvidia shares rose 3.7% to $204.12, its biggest one-day gain in over a month.
CFO Colette Kress said H200 sales have not yet generated China revenue and were omitted from the outlook.
United States continues to restrict AI chip sales to China for national-security reasons.

Summary

Coinbase Cuts AI

Coinbase says AI spending fell nearly half after adopting cheaper Chinese models GLM-5.2 and Kimi.
OpenRouter lists six Chinese AI models among its top offerings, with GLM-5.2 climbing to fifth place within a month.
Chinese open-source AI made up almost half of Hugging Face downloads from February 2025 through 2026.
Experts warn Chinese models may harvest U.S. data, risking regulatory bans and a chilling adoption effect.

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OpenAI Thwarts Plot

OpenAI disclosed that a Chinese law-enforcement-linked user attempted to use ChatGPT to plan a disinformation campaign against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which the model refused.
UC San Diego researcher Margaret Roberts found DeepSeek produced pro-China answers 99 % of the time, mirroring China’s 2022 “positive energy” AI rule.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute reported AI now scans, erases and flags media, making Chinese censorship faster and cheaper.

History

Historical Context

1999 Commerce Secretary William Daley halted U.S. sales of high-performance GPUs to China, marking the first major export ban on advanced chips. The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security expanded similar controls on 7 October 2022 and added 28 Chinese firms to the Entity List in March 2023, reinforcing the long-standing AI hardware rivalry.

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China Approves Chips

China allows Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase limited Nvidia H200 AI chips, with requests for quantities and purposes and a cap of 200,000 chips.
Nvidia shares rose 3.7% to $204.12, its biggest one-day gain in over a month.
CFO Colette Kress said H200 sales have not yet generated China revenue and were omitted from the outlook.
United States continues to restrict AI chip sales to China for national-security reasons.

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