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Apple Intelligence Clears China With Alibaba's Qwen Models
Chinese regulators approved Apple Intelligence for launch in China, with Alibaba's Qwen AI standing in for Apple's own models.
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AI
Apple Intelligence Clears China With Alibaba and Baidu Inside
Regulators approved Apple's AI feature set for the Chinese market, with Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu providing the local model layer.
Policy
China bans minors from AI emotional bonds
New rules bar children from forming romantic or dependent relationships with chatbots, part of Beijing's push to address low birthrates and screen dependency.
AI
Apple Intelligence Gets China Approval, Powered by Alibaba AI
Chinese regulators cleared Apple's on-device AI system this week, with Alibaba's Qwen model set to power it for users across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
Hardware
ZTE Gets US Clearance to Buy Nvidia H200 Chips
The US has approved ZTE and Maginfra to purchase Nvidia's Hopper-generation H200 accelerators, expanding a short list of Chinese firms with sanctioned access.
AI
Nvidia Cuts Asia Client List in Half to Curb Chip Smuggling
Under pressure from Washington, Nvidia has slashed its roster of verified buyers in Asia, sending inspectors to data centers to weed out shell companies.
AI
China Flags Claude Code as Security Risk, Boosting Local Rivals
Beijing's cybersecurity alert targeting Anthropic's coding tool is accelerating a migration already under way toward domestic Chinese alternatives.
Policy
How Blacklisted Chinese Firms Still Buy US Frontier AI
A Singapore loophole lets companies on the US military blacklist purchase advanced AI from OpenAI and Google, raising questions about export controls.
Security
Suspected Chinese Spies Hit University Mail Servers
A group tracked as UNK_MassTraction has been raiding Roundcube mail servers at US and Canadian universities since May, stealing credentials from research staff.
Security
China's NVDB Alleges Claude Code Sent User Data Without Consent
Beijing's NVDB alleges Claude Code versions 2.1.91-2.1.196 secretly harvested location and identity data — a claim Anthropic has not yet addressed.
AI
Meituan trained a 1.6T-parameter model on Chinese chips
LongCat-2.0 is Meituan's answer to US export controls: a massive AI model built entirely on domestic silicon, no Nvidia required.
AI
DeepSeek's $7.4bn Round Signals China's AI Funding Boom
DeepSeek closed the largest first-time raise by a Chinese startup, a sign that US pressure may be accelerating capital into China's AI sector.
AI
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Claims to Match US-Restricted AI on Security
China's Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model that researchers say rivals US-restricted AI on bug-finding and cybersecurity tasks.
AI
GLM-5.2 Claims Security Parity With a Phantom Anthropic Model
A Chinese lab's GLM-5.2 claims to match Anthropic on cybersecurity, but the Anthropic model it names as competition has no verified public existence.
Hardware
Baidu Chip Unit Eyes $50B Hong Kong IPO With a Catch
Kunlunxin is reportedly asking IPO investors to buy its chips too, blurring the line between capital raise and sales push.
Policy
Apple Lobbies for Access to Blacklisted Chinese Memory Chips
With DRAM prices up fourfold, Apple is pressing the Trump administration to let it buy chips from Pentagon-listed CXMT.
AI
Claude Is Blocked in China. Its Users There Disagree.
As Anthropic restricts Claude access by location, Chinese users are routing around the blocks with proxies, fake identities, and Telegram-sourced workarounds.
Policy
Polestar Loses US Market Access Over China Software Rule
The federal government denied Polestar's authorization request under the Connected Vehicle Rule, ending US sales of its EVs from model year 2027 onward.
Hardware
Smuggled Nvidia AI Servers Fetch $1M-Plus in China
Export controls have pushed black-market prices for Nvidia AI servers to almost three times their US retail cost, according to new reports.
AI
Anthropic Says Alibaba Distilled Claude via 25,000 Fake Accounts
Anthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to distill Claude into its own models, in a letter to two senators.
Hardware
Qualcomm Enters China AI Market That Nvidia Has Already Left
With 46% of revenue from China, Qualcomm is building export-compliant AI chips for Chinese data centers — a lane Nvidia already abandoned.
AI
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Illicitly Copying Claude
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from Claude, raising fresh questions about AI intellectual property enforcement.
Hardware
Morgan Stanley doubles China humanoid robot forecast to 50,000
The bank now expects 50,000 humanoid robots to ship in China this year, citing a shift from stage demos to real factory and retail deployments.
Hardware
China Tops the Supercomputer List With a CPU-Only Machine
China's LineShine system posted 2.198 exaflops on the standard benchmark using only domestic CPUs - but the real story is that China chose to submit it at all.
Hardware
Qualcomm Bets on ByteDance to Escape the Phone Market Slump
Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, a move that signals the chipmaker's pivot away from the saturating smartphone market.
AI
Zhipu Eyes Multibillion-Dollar Raise After 2,000% Stock Surge
The Beijing AI lab is exploring a major fundraising round after its Hong Kong shares soared, but profitability remains an open question.
Hardware
A100 Servers Triple in Price as China's AI Chip Supply Dries Up
With smuggling routes shut and legal imports blocked, Chinese buyers are paying triple for aging Nvidia AI hardware with nowhere else to turn.
Policy
48 Chinese Developers File Antitrust Complaint Over App Store Fees
A group of Chinese iOS developers petitioned China's market regulator, alleging Apple broke a promise to offer them the lowest available commission rate.
Hardware
China Bars Infineon from Selling GaN Chips After Court Loss
China's Supreme People's Court upheld an injunction against Infineon, handing domestic rival Innoscience a major win in an ongoing multi-region patent dispute.
Hardware
Enflame Wins $888M IPO Approval, the Last of China's Chip Four
Tencent-backed Enflame is the final member of China's homegrown AI chip quartet to win stock exchange listing approval, seeking $888 million.
Hardware
China Opens Photonic Computing Lab to Outmaneuver US Chip Curbs
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's new photonic computing lab signals Beijing's bet that light-based chips can substitute for the silicon it can no longer import.
Hardware
Nvidia Finds a New China Workaround in Its Vera CPU
After export controls gutted its GPU sales in China, Nvidia is now pitching its Vera CPU, a product that may sidestep current restrictions.
AI
Anthropic Built Fable 5 Curbs for China. Its Own Side Complained.
Anthropic's Fable 5 launched with controls blocking China's AI labs, but the loudest complaints came from Anthropic's own community.
Policy
Beijing Forces Meta to Unwind Its $2B Manus Deal
Meta has cut the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup off from its systems and is sunsetting the platform after Beijing demanded the acquisition be reversed.
Policy
China's Official Labor Paper Calls for AI Worker Protections
Workers' Daily, the official organ of China's state-controlled trade union federation, has called on the government to put guardrails on AI job displacement.
Security
FBI Seizes 13 Fake Consultancy Sites in Chinese Spy-Hiring Sting
The bureau says Beijing built a network of phony consulting firms designed to recruit cleared U.S. government employees.
Security
China-Linked Accounts Used ChatGPT to Stoke US Data Center Backlash
OpenAI says China-linked accounts impersonated Americans to manufacture grassroots opposition to US data centers by amplifying real energy cost concerns.
Security
China-Linked Botnet Doubles to 1,500 Routers, Scans Flaws in Hours
The JDY botnet has more than doubled to 1,500 compromised routers and IoT devices, and begins probing newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication.
Policy
Taiwan Eyes Criminal Penalties for AI Chip Exports to China
A proposed blanket ban would go further than blacklist-based controls, turning any AI chip sale to China into a potential crime.
Policy
Microsoft Trims Azure Staff in China as Cloud Borders Harden
Hundreds of Azure positions cut in China signal that US-China tech decoupling has reached cloud infrastructure itself.
Policy
Pentagon Flags Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese Military-Linked Firms
The Defense Department's updated list now names two of China's most recognizable tech companies, adding political risk to any U.S. business dealings with them.
AI
China Drafts $295bn AI Data Center Plan to Cut Out Nvidia
Beijing is writing a five-year blueprint to spend 2 trillion yuan on AI computing capacity built entirely on domestic chips.
Policy
Pentagon Flags Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree as Military-Linked
The Defense Department's 1260H list now names 188 companies, and the latest additions include some of the most recognizable brands in global tech.
Hardware
Prinano Claims Photonic Chips Without DUV Lithography
A Chinese startup says nanoimprint technology lets it make photonic wafers without the Western lithography equipment that export controls have largely cut off.
Science
China Issues the First Commercial Approval for a Brain Implant
China's drug regulator approved NeuraMatrix's NEO implant for spinal cord patients, putting it ahead of Neuralink on the commercialization timeline.
Startups
Moonshot AI's Valuation Jumped 7x in Six Months
The Kimi chatbot maker is raising up to $2 billion at a $30 billion target, six months after investors priced it at $4 billion.
Security
China's Military Recruits Unwitting Sources on Job Boards, FBI Warns
An FBI advisory says Chinese military operatives are using LinkedIn and Indeed to pay freelancers for research reports that end up in intelligence hands.
Policy
China pressured Zambia to cancel RightsCon over Taiwan dispute
The world's largest digital rights conference was called off after Zambia, under pressure from Beijing, demanded organizers exclude Taiwanese participants.
Consumer Tech
Chinese EVs Are Loaded With Screens and AI. Does It Matter?
Chinese automakers are packing vehicles with displays and artificial intelligence, but whether Western buyers care is another question.