OpenAI and Google reportedly sold AI models to Chinese groups on U.S. blacklists

Important note: the content downloaded from this Financial Times link is only a paywall teaser. The returned page contains only the site's navigation (section menus such as World, Companies, Technology, Markets, Opinion), "most read" listings of other unrelated stories, and the FT's various paid subscription options (FT Edit, Standard Digital, Premium Digital). It was not possible to access the actual body of the article, so I do not have the data, figures, names of the alleged Chinese organizations, transaction dates, or the statements from OpenAI or Google that the original report presumably contains.

The only verifiable thing from the material received is the FT's own headline, replicated in several parts of the page: "OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups." This suggests that the Financial Times investigation indicates both companies allegedly provided access to their artificial intelligence models to Chinese entities subject to restrictions or sanctions by the United States, a sensitive topic given the context of controls on the export of advanced technology to China.

With the available information, I cannot specify which particular models would be involved, what mechanism would have been used to circumvent the restrictions (APIs, intermediary distributors, subsidiaries, etc.), which specific Chinese groups are listed as "blacklisted," or whether OpenAI and Google have responded to the accusations. Any additional detail would be speculation unsupported by the text received, so I prefer not to elaborate on it.

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