The mastermind behind an extensive cyber-fraud empire, Vincent Chen Zhi, has been deported from Cambodia to China.
Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article…
Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chip makers improve their chips' performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/china-gains-trump-nvi…
CNN revamps its app's homepage with a new Shorts tab that provides a TikTok-style feed of short-form vertical video clips covering news stories (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/816638/cnn-app-shorts-feed-videos-launch
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor's race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold (Molly English/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/09/politics/miami-mayor-runoff-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p141#a251209p141
Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-removes-gay-dating-apps-china-app-store/
Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)
https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/ai-needs-more-power-than-the…
President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/trump-nvidia-ai-chip…
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/business/china-suspends-export-c…
The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pled guilty (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…