The market was mixed ahead of key economic data. Elon Musk reportedly diverted Nvidia AI chips from Tesla to X and xAI.
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Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) production in the face of U.S. sanctions, four people with knowledge of the matter said. Aiming to impede breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and supercomputing by China's military, Washington has imposed a series of export controls on highly sophisticated processors from companies such as Nvidia and on chip manufacturing equipment.