OpenAI and Google sell AI access to overseas units of Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese companies

Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Sundar Pichai’s Google have provided powerful AI products to overseas businesses controlled by Chinese corporations named on a US military watchlist. The customers include Singapore units connected to Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), and Tencent Holdings (HKEX: 0700; OTC: TCEHY). Washington claims these three companies have links with China’s armed...