Multiple reports say OpenAI and Google have provided access to their AI models to China-linked groups that are subject to US blacklisting or sanctions-related restrictions. The Financial Times reports that US companies supply AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries connected to major Chinese technology and internet firms, including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. Other reporting described the issue more broadly as model access sold to blacklisted China-linked groups, citing the same general pattern of use of intermediaries and regional subsidiaries. The accounts do not present specific details of which individual organizations received the access, how the customers were onboarded, or what compliance steps were taken by the AI providers. The reports also do not indicate whether the services were used for sanctioned activities or whether the affected groups are directly operated by the Chinese parent companies referenced. Taken together, the coverage focuses on the possibility that widely used AI services can be routed through third-party entities outside the main country of operation, raising compliance questions for vendors providing model access. The story is presented as a report-based allegation rather than a confirmed regulatory finding in the cited material.