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- The Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation accepts four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — and reaches 10 projects in its first yearSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · linuxfoundation.org ↗
- The US Department of Homeland Security publishes an order: federal civilian agencies must stop procuring DeepSeek products and remove from their IT systems both those products and third-party products built on DeepSeekLaws & regulation · Geopolitics & defense · Cybersecurity · Compute export controls · federalregister.gov ↗
- DeepSeek open-sources its production inference engine DeepInfer under Apache 2.0 and reports that a single cluster running DeepSeek V4.1 Flash serves 155 trillion tokens a day, earning $38 per GPU-hour at the off-peak rateSoftware development · Business & markets · Internet & infrastructure · Open weights · github.com ↗
- China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology put out for public comment amendments to the catalogue of technologies prohibited or restricted from export: 23 AI technologies are added to it — large models, agents, computing clusters; technologies already made public through open source or research papers are not subject to controlLaws & regulation · Geopolitics & defense · Software development · Compute export controls · news.cn ↗
- ByteDance’s Doubao phone assistant starts operating third-party apps through the screen on its own — except those whose developers opted out: 151 of them, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, DeepSeek, Kimi, banks and mobile carriers; 65 belong to Tencent’s ecosystemSoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · yicai.com ↗ ⧗
- QuestMobile: by August 2026 AI-native apps in China had 537 million users, each opening them 85.1 times a month on average — up 67.1% year on year; search-engine apps are opened 35.8 times a month (−21.7%) and general news apps 123.6 times (−7.6%)Media & information · Chatbots · i.ifeng.com ↗ ⧗
- StepFun releases its flagship agentic model Step 5 Preview on OpenRouter: 27B active out of 600B total parametersSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · openrouter.ai ↗
- CrowdStrike: a threat actor, likely Chinese-speaking, attacked South Korean financial organisations using ARTEX, an open-source Chinese agentic pentesting tool, and Claude Code; the number of affected organisations is unconfirmedCybersecurity · Finance & money · Autonomous AI agents · crowdstrike.com ↗
- A company owner is arrested in California, charged with smuggling servers with American GPUs worth more than $300 million to China via Malaysia and SingaporeGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- ByteDance Seed: with chunked KV-cache compression, open-weight models such as DeepSeek-V4 show long-context retrieval accuracy differing by up to 40 percentage points across “phases” — shifts of the input by a few tokensSoftware development · Science · Open weights · arxiv.org ↗
- NVIDIA: the US issues H200 licenses with inspection and a 25% levy, but the Chinese government restricts purchases, and sales to China are under 1% of data center revenue for the quarterBusiness & markets · Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- Kuaishou announces raising 13.82 billion yuan (about $2 billion) for its subsidiary Kling (video generation)Business & markets · Finance & money · Generative video · www1.hkexnews.hk ↗
- FLI AI Safety Index: the best grade among 9 companies is C+ for Anthropic; in existential safety none scores above C−; leading labs have weakened their commitments to stop at “red lines”Laws & regulation · AI safety · futureoflife.org ↗
- Epoch AI: by the end of 2025, between 290,000 and 1.6 million H100 equivalents had been smuggled into China, median 660,000, roughly a third of China's computing capacityGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · epoch.ai ↗
- SEMI: in 2025 China bought $49.3 billion of chipmaking equipment out of $135.1 billion worldwideBusiness & markets · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · semi.org ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2026: as of March 2026 the best US model (Claude Opus 4.6) leads the best Chinese one in the Arena ranking by just 2.7%, and the gap “has effectively closed”Geopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Large language model · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- China's share, including Hong Kong, of NVIDIA's revenue by customer headquarters location is 19% in fiscal 2025 and 9% in fiscal 2026Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- BIS begins reviewing applications to export the H200 and AMD MI325X to China on a case-by-case basis instead of a presumption of denialGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- The Beijing labor dispute arbitration commission includes among the year’s typical cases a ruling in favor of an employee dismissed after data collection was switched to automation: replacing a position with AI as an ordinary business decision does not count as a “major change in objective circumstances”, and new technologies must not become a cover for unlawful dismissalWork & jobs · Justice & courts · AI and jobs · news.cn ↗
- The US Department of Justice shuts down an AI chip smuggling network to China: from October 2024 to May 2025 H100 and H200 chips worth at least $160 million were exported or attempted to be exportedGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- Anthropic: a group it attributes to the Chinese state used Claude Code for cyber espionage against about 30 targets; AI performed 80–90% of the workCybersecurity · Geopolitics & defense · Autonomous AI agents · anthropic.com ↗
- After the meeting of the US and Chinese leaders in Busan, China suspends some of its export restrictions until 10.11.2026, and its ban on exporting gallium and germanium to the US until 27.11.2026Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- Huawei announces a plan to release Ascend chips once a year, doubling compute each time, and acknowledges that the Chinese mainland will lag behind in process nodes for a relatively long timeBusiness & markets · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · huawei.com ↗
- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China opposes the politicization and weaponization of tech and trade issues, which disrupt the stability of global industrial and supply chainsGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · fmprc.gov.cn ↗
- The US issues licenses to sell the H20 to China; officials expect 15% of the revenue to go to the government, but there is no regulation providing for itGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- CERT-UA reports LAMEHUG, malware that asks the Qwen 2.5-Coder language model to generate commands from a description and then runs them; the attack is linked to APT28 with moderate confidenceCybersecurity · Geopolitics & defense · Moving target defense · cert.gov.ua ↗
- CNAS: AI chip smuggling into China has likely been occurring at a scale that significantly undermines US export controls; the median estimate is about 140,000 chips in 2024Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · cnas.org ↗
- Epoch AI: in May 2025 the US accounts for about three quarters of the performance of the world's tracked GPU clusters, China for 15%Geopolitics & defense · Science · Compute export controls · epoch.ai ↗
- Jensen Huang: US policy was based on the assumption that China cannot make AI chips, and “now it's clearly wrong”; the $50 billion China market is effectively closed to US companiesBusiness & markets · Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · allmind.ai ↗
- Because of the H20 ban, NVIDIA takes a $4.5 billion charge and leaves a further $2.5 billion unshipped in a quarter; its outlook for the next quarter includes a loss of about $8 billion in revenueBusiness & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- The US informs NVIDIA that a license to export the H20 to China is required for the indefinite future; the company expects up to $5.5 billion in chargesGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- China introduces export controls on 7 medium and heavy rare earth metals, including magnetsGeopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- DeepSeek-R1: a cheap open reasoning model; on 27 January NVIDIA shares fall ~17%Finance & money · Business & markets · Open weights · api-docs.deepseek.com ↗
- Dario Amodei after the release of DeepSeek: export controls are “actually working and adapting”, loopholes must be closed faster, and the H20 should be bannedGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · darioamodei.com ↗
- DeepSeek-V3 was trained on 2,048 H800 chips cut down for China: 2.788 million GPU hours, about $5.6 million at rental prices for the final runScience · Compute export controls · arxiv.org ↗
- China bans in principle the export of gallium, germanium, antimony and superhard materials to the USGeopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · cn.chinadaily.com.cn ↗
- BIS introduces export controls on HBM memory and 24 more types of chipmaking equipment, and adds 140 entities to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng: money has never been the problem for the company; bans on shipments of advanced chips are the problemBusiness & markets · Compute export controls · chinatalk.media ↗
- Bletchley Park summit: 28 countries and the EU, including the US and China, adopt a declaration on the risks of frontier AI; on 2 November the UK launches the first government AI safety instituteGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.uk ↗
- BIS closes the loophole for the cut-down A800 and H800 chips by introducing a performance density threshold; for NVIDIA the ban takes effect immediately, from 23 October 2023Geopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Alibaba opens the weights of Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-ChatSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · cointelegraph.com ↗
- China introduces export controls on gallium and germanium from 1 August 2023Geopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- Buyers in China pay $20–30 for the World IDs of people scanned in Cambodia and Africa; Worldcoin admits that collusion between seller and buyer cannot be preventedCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- The US Commerce Department's BIS restricts sales to China of advanced AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipmentGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- The US government informs NVIDIA that exports of the A100 and H100 to China, Hong Kong and Russia now require a licenseGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- The US Commerce Department expands the foreign direct product rule against Huawei: a license is also needed for chips made abroad using American technology; another 38 affiliates are added to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · content.govdelivery.com ↗
- The US adds Huawei and 68 of its foreign affiliates to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · govinfo.gov ↗
- The US adds the Chinese military university NUDT and three national supercomputing centers to the Entity List: according to the authorities, the Tianhe supercomputers were believed to be used in nuclear explosive activitiesGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · govinfo.gov ↗