  Holographic theories with classical gravity duals are maximally chaotic: they
saturate a set of bounds on the spread of quantum information. In this paper we
question whether non-locality can affect such bounds. Specifically, we consider
the gravity dual of a prototypical theory with non-local interactions, namely,
$\mathcal{N}=4$ non-commutative super Yang Mills. We construct shock waves
geometries that correspond to perturbations of the thermofield double state
with definite momentum and study several chaos related properties of the
theory, including the butterfly velocity, the entanglement velocity, the
scrambling time and the maximal Lyapunov exponent. The latter two are
unaffected by the non-commutative parameter $\theta$, however, both the
butterfly and entanglement velocities increase with the strength of the
non-commutativity. This implies that non-local interactions can enhance the
effective light-cone for the transfer of quantum information, eluding
previously conjectured bounds encountered in the context of local quantum field
theory. We comment on a possible limitation on the retrieval of quantum
information imposed by non-locality.
