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FT: OpenAI and Google Sold AI Services to Pentagon-Blacklisted Chinese Firms via Singapore Units
The Financial Times reported (July 10) that OpenAI and Google supplied advanced AI to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent — whose parents sit on the Pentagon's 1260H list — legally, because US controls key on geography (mainland China) rather than ultimate ownership. OpenAI says it blocks mainland access but allows Chinese-owned entities elsewhere with safeguards, and suspended Alibaba-affiliated API access last month over distillation concerns. Anthropic, by contrast, bars Chinese companies and their overseas entities outright and is lobbying for tighter export rules.
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