Commercial shipments don’t work like when you receive a package from Amazon. The terms of the freight, including the point at which ownership is handed off, are negotiated terms. An $11.4 million contract would have this negotiated and agreed upon. Depending on how it’s structured, the shipment may not have been the shipper’s responsibility at all after it left the warehouse.
> I can't imagine their insurance is too happy about it either.
Insurance would take the risk of the transport method into account. The policy would say what transport methods are covered and the allowed methods would be used to calculate the risk of loss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOB_(shipping)
I always pay for FOB destination when ordering high value items. I bought two 250kVA UPSes from Eaton and one of the pallets tipped over on the truck.
The 2% I paid for FOB destination meant Eaton delivered another 250kVA UPS at their cost. Unsure if Eaton was made whole by the shipper or not.
Because decisions about how to handle individual units are made based on unit economics. And if you have unlimited money $10 million in lost goods is a rounding error that doesn't require any action.
Every logistics operations expects a certain percentage of theft, they insure for it. The cost of securing has to be less than cost of loss. The logistics departments are doing 10's of billions of dollars every month to every hyperscaler and all the neoclouds all over the country (and internationally).
Even military logistics routinely losses high value items - from the recent f-35 part they tried to ship via HK(and lost to China) to even full nuclear bombs that are lost to this day from the cold war era.
If we cannot secure nuclear bombs 100% during transit, there isn't going to be 100% success for computer chips.
[1]Even for foreign adversaries, probably not worth the risk of the scandal just to get two racks. They need orders of magnitude more - the South East Asian route in the news this week seems to be $5-10B worth of chips for context.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/data-cen...
Maybe there's going to be a GTA 6 mission based on this eventually..
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/chinaf-f35-components-hong-k...
2. Was it an issue with the courier? The article makes it sound like it was picked up by a truck that wasn't supposed to
2/ why would the FBI get involved in local police matters?
This is the point Jensen staked his legacy on, he will be proved right.
If I got caught selling even a handful of restricted GPUs to China, I would be in prison. If we want to even pretend we live under the Rule of Law, this guy should be too.
Why not?
Is Nvidia an American company or a global company?
Jensen is right, logical and pragmatic
> I hope he gets nailed to the wall over this
Hope whatever you want to hope, go look at your local towns and cities and tell me how they’re doing. Go see what our retarded mindset of self-harm did to us.
>Rule of Law
What a nice pipedream. America can’t be a place of dreams and of wanting harm to others at the same time, you’ve gotta pick a lane buddy. The jingoism is coming from a tiny tiny handful of people, most Americans don’t give a fuuuuuck and just wanna have fun. There’s no reason for us to restrict or fight China it’s the dumbest shit, they’re so innovative
Because as far as the US government is concerned, GPU technology is an export-controlled, somewhat sensitive item. Like non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, in a way.
Do you know what modern nukes do? They’re horrific. Token generators and JEPA are cute science experiments, barely useful at all. Prove me wrong.
When the company doesn't care, the insurance still cares.
When the police don't care, the insurance still cares.
Insurance always cares.
It’s baked into the cost
Insurance cares about losing hundreds more billions on hurricanes and floods, and even then they barely give a fuck. Nobody cares about some little shitty shipment
Clearly you've never owned a business or dealt with commercial insurance. Perhaps stop replying since you don't know what you're talking about.