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Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

And of course, you can go into the notes for the episode, you can take a look at links from a newsletter, you can go and buy some merch, as always.

But much more importantly, today I'm joined by the esteemed Steve Burke of Gamer's Nexus.

Steve, thank you for joining us.

Thanks for having me. So you did an incredible video on the black market smuggling of

Nvidia's AI GPUs into China. And then there has been a thing that's happened where the video

has been pulled down due to a DMCA complaint from Bloomberg. What is happening?

Yeah, it's, so the video, it's really cool video where we went all over China finding these

GPUs. As part of that, we included a recap of all the news of export controls where

the US controls GPUs that are above a certain performance threshold

and the allowance to export those to China by American companies.

And so that was the story.

We wanted to look into, okay, but they're still getting to China, and so how is that?

And as part of that recap, go through all the the news we've got clips of you know various

politicians there was a clip of Obama in there and there was a clip of Trump in there a couple of

them talking about AI or GPU export control bands of course AI I know Ed is one of your

favorite topics my faves, yes. Yes, me as well. And yeah, so we received a copyright strike from a small

publication called Bloomberg. Oh, so that strike took the video offline, and now we are currently challenging it.

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