export-controls

Smuggled Silicon: The DOJ Case That Puts AI Export Controls in the Spotlight

John Z Black Mar 21, 2026

Policy, Law & Governance #ai #export-controls #china #doj #supply-chain #national-security #hardware #policy

Three men charged with smuggling US AI hardware to China represent the first major criminal test of export control law applied to high-performance compute. The era of treating AI export controls as background noise is over.