Singapore Seizure Reveals $42M Black Market for Restricted AI Chips

A US$42 million luxury mansion seizure in Singapore has moved the covert trade in AI hardware from a theoretical concern to a tangible front in the US-China tech war. The incident exposes the immense profitability and sophistication of black-market networks designed to circumvent US export controls on high-end Nvidia GPUs. This is not merely smuggling; it is the physical manifestation of a bifurcating global AI supply chain, complicating Singapore