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US Blacklists Sam Altman's Old Y Combinator China Pick Over Startup Built On Stolen Google AI Secrets

ZeroHedge23 October 2026, 09:45 UTCPeople's Republic of China

US Blacklists Sam Altman's Old Y Combinator China Pick Over Startup Built On Stolen Google AI Secrets Of all the people who could end up on a US sanctions list for bankrolling stolen Google AI technology, a former Microsoft executive hand-picked by Sam Altman to run Y Combinator's China arm was probably not on many bingo cards. And yet here we are. On Monday, the State Department blacklisted Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, the AI startup founded by convicted ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, along with MiraclePlus, the Chinese venture firm founded by ex-Microsoft AI scientist Lu Qi, a

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