July 24, 2025

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Over $1B of Nvidia AI Chips Smuggled into China Despite U.S. Curbs

Despite Trump-era export restrictions, Chinese traders have smuggled over $1 billion of Nvidia’s top-tier AI processors into mainland China.

Shipments of the banned B200, along with H100 and H200 chips, flowed from Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces into local data centers.

Traders used social‐media–style networks to match hundreds of sellers with AI groups hungry for U.S. technology.

The surge underscores the limits of Washington’s controls and raises fresh questions about how to stem the flow of advanced semiconductors into China’s booming AI industry.

Google AI Overviews Boost Ad Revenue but Threaten Publishers

Google’s AI Overviews are driving ad revenue to new highs even as they starve publishers of traffic. In Q2, Alphabet’s advertising arm raked in $71.3 billion—a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase—on the back of AI-powered search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode. Sundar Pichai says Overviews, powered by Gemini 2.5, now serve 2 billion users monthly and boost query volume by over 10 percent.

But the very convenience that fuels Google’s coffers is causing alarm among content creators. A Pew Research study found that only 8 percent of users click through links when presented with an AI summary—half the rate of traditional results—prompting blogs and publishers to file antitrust lawsuits over lost organic traffic.

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Google Debuts AI-Powered Virtual Try-On and Smarter Price Alerts

Google on Thursday rolled out a trio of AI-driven shopping enhancements in the United States, aiming to reshape how consumers discover, visualize and buy products online. The centerpiece is a virtual try-on feature that lets users upload a full-length photo to see how clothing from Google’s Shopping Graph—spanning billions of apparel items—would drape and fit on their own bodies.

Alongside try-on, Google introduced enhanced price alerts, enabling shoppers to set size, color and price-threshold criteria and receive instant notifications when items hit their target. Looking ahead to this fall, the company teased an AI Mode “Vision Match” tool that will generate outfit and room-design inspiration using generative imagery and link to real–world products.

Voice Cloning Exposes Cybersecurity Gaps as CISOs Lag on AI Protection

U.S. security leaders and financial regulators warn that rapid AI adoption is outpacing protection, leaving critical gaps from boardrooms to bank lobbies.

Only 6% of firms have built an AI-native security program, despite 79% running AI in production, according to SandboxAQ’s latest report.

At a Federal Reserve conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared voiceprint systems “fully defeated,” predicting a fraud wave from cloned voices.

As 85% of companies plan to boost AI-security budgets, experts say organizations must adopt new defenses—from automated incident response to multi-factor authentication—to counter adversarial AI exploits.

AI Accelerates Portable MRI Access and Antibody Design

AI is reshaping both diagnosis and drug discovery in the U.S. A new clinical study at the University of Kansas is using Hyperfine’s FDA-cleared, AI-powered Swoop® portable MRI to streamline dementia screening in outpatient clinics, combining on-site scans, cognitive testing and blood biomarkers into a single visit. Meanwhile, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s three-year DeNOVO initiative, backed by ARPA-H and DOE, is applying supercomputing and generative AI to design therapeutic antibodies in silico—promising to cut lead times from months to hours.

Together, these efforts signal a turning point: from bringing advanced imaging to underserved areas to harnessing AI for ultrafast biologics discovery, U.S. researchers are leveraging cutting-edge platforms to boost accessibility, lower costs and accelerate timelines in neurological care and drug development.

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$1B of Nvidia AI Chips Smuggled into China Despite U.S. Export Ban