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AnnouncementProductNov 15, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reports Megaspeed arranged nearly $12 billion in Nvidia chip orders for Chinese buyers despite US export controls; Culper Research estimates over 20 percent of Nvidia's revenue came from China. Australia's central bank links ChatGPT-era AI to declining youth employment in exposed jobs. Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.5, trained on Chinese hardware. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon topped the MathArena benchmark. OpenAI dissolved its robotics team; Jacob Coxon cited Anthropic's IPO slide. Runway released Praxis-1 with open weights.

Why it matters

The Wall Street Journal reports that Megaspeed, a company owned by Alice Huang, a former romantic partner of ousted Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, brokered vast orders of Nvidia high-performance AI chips for Chinese buyers over a recent period. The chips were sought by US export controls to keep out of China, and Megaspeed reportedly enjoyed preferential access to scarce supply as an Nvidia cloud partner, partly because Alibaba was a major client. Nvidia's official China revenue figures understate the true dependence, according to short seller Culper Research, which believes Chinese customers account for a far larger share of revenue than reported, with much of that business flowing through indirect channels. Separately, Australia's central bank has found early evidence that AI is hurting young entry-level workers in exposed occupations, a trend author Mike Major warns could have other explanations. Together the items show AI's economic effects running ahead of formal measurement and regulation.

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the-decoder.comBloghttps://the-decoder.com/This source supplies the Wall Street Journal's documented account of how Megaspeed, tied to Alice Huang, obtained export-controlled Nvidia chips for Chinese buyers, and Culper Research's estimate of Nvidia's understated China revenue.
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