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20 AI Weekly issues and 68 live stories from the last 30 days mention China AI.

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Live Stories (68)

ByteDance Plans $6B Buyback at $400B Valuation, 20% Jump Over Last Year's Round

theinformation.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 22

ALERT Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott Summons Huang and Lutnick, Threatens Subpoenas for Dec 3 and 10

news.bloomberglaw.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 28

AG Todd Blanche Says DOJ Has Not Concluded Alice Huang Was a Chinese Spy, FBI Still Probing

reuters.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 22

CBS Report: 30,000 Workers Build Inner Mongolia AI Hub as UN Survey Finds 80% of Chinese Back Data Centers

cbsnews.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 20

Reuters: Senior White House Officials Discussing Whether to Push Out Commerce Secretary Lutnick

reuters.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 22

Tencent's Pony Ma Pledges to Redeploy Half of 100,000 Staff to AI-Native Businesses

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 23

Commerce Department Finalizing Long-Awaited AI Remote Access Rule to Plug China Data-Center Loophole

theinformation.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 23

Nvidia Stopped Reporting Singapore Revenue After It Hit 22% of Sales, Just as Megaspeed Scrutiny Rose

wsj.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 22

Chinese AI Firms Rush to Lock In Overseas Nvidia Cloud Capacity Over Fears of Tighter US Chip Curbs

reuters.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 22

Warren and Coons Ask Trump Administration to Preserve All Nvidia-China Export and Huang Affair Records

wsj.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 23

Bloomberg: Megaspeed's Alice Huang Now Living in Beijing With Knowledge of Chinese Security Officials

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-12 · Score: 23

Bessent Previews US-China 'Superintelligence' Dialogue Ahead of Xi Meeting at APEC

reuters.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 19

Axios: Bessent Confronted Lutnick in Situation Room Over Megaspeed Entity-List Delay

axios.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 23

Semafor Uses AI to Score 42 Huang Interviews, Finds China Mentions Jumped 6x After 2025 Chip Curbs

semafor.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 22

ByteDance Plans Muse-Like AI Agent in Weeks, Zhang Yiming Targets Frontier Parity by 2029-2030

thenextweb.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 27

Lawmakers Push Three China Chip-Export Bills Into NDAA on Huang Spy-Scandal Fallout

aljazeera.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 25

ALERT PLA-Linked Northwestern Polytechnical Bought Two Nvidia H200 Chips Through Chinese Reseller for $123K

aljazeera.com · 2026-11-11 · Score: 28

Rosen Law Firm Files Nvidia Investor Class Action in San Jose Federal Court Over Huang Affair

cbsnews.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 26

FT: Commerce Department stalls Entity List additions including Megaspeed despite four-agency push

ft.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 23

Alibaba Chip Design Unit T-Head Wins Hong Kong Exchange Clearance for Spin-Off Listing

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 22

Microsoft Lobbies Trump Administration to Halt FCC Ban on Chinese Optical Transceivers

reuters.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 23

ALERT Meituan Open-Weights LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T MoE Multimodal Agent Model Under MIT License

venturebeat.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 32

Filings Show Moonshot Rented 32 Super Micro Servers With Nvidia B300 in China, Possibly Breaching US Rules

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 23

NYT: Commerce Probe of Megaspeed Chip Smuggling Was Moved to DOJ After Nvidia Intervened

nytimes.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 23

Nature Will Debuts Natura-1, a 50B MoE Dexterous-Hand Foundation Model Trained on 1M Hours of Human Video

roboticsandautomationnews.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 26

Trump Tells 60 Minutes He 'Doesn't Mind Guardrails' on AI, Mentions China Eight Times

cbsnews.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 25

Trump defends Jensen Huang over Chinese-spy affair, calls him an 'honorable guy' and may bring him to China

axios.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 21

Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu warns models near a threshold where biology abilities 'can do harm'

scmp.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 23

NYT: Rubio Oversaw Classified Spring Memo Warning Trump Officials of Huang's Chinese-Spy Ties

nytimes.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 22

ALERT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Admits Affair With Suspected Chinese Spy in Letter to Staff, Board Launches Probe

cnbc.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 32

DeepSeek's Open-Source Harness Agent Hits 1.54M Daily Users in Under Three Months, Burns 92T Tokens a Day

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 23

ALERT Nvidia Board Opens Independent Probe Into Alleged Foreign-Intelligence Targeting of Jensen Huang

nvidianews.nvidia.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 28

SemiAnalysis Report: China's Chahar Hub Hosts 22 AI Data Center Projects and 30,000 Workers at $3M/MW

newsletter.semianalysis.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 22

Guardian: Southeast Asia Builds ~50% of APAC's Under-Construction Data Center Capacity as Thailand Freezes 49 and Pauses 117

theguardian.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 19

Nous Research Opens Apache 2.0 Arete-27B, Cuts Qwen's Propaganda Rate From 22% to 0.9%

huggingface.co · 2026-11-06 · Score: 24

NYT Investigation: Chinese Firms Cleared for Nvidia H200 Shipments Have Empty Offices and Entity-List Ties

nytimes.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 23

Huawei Unveils Qingyun HM650 Desktop With Kirin X90, Billed as China's First 100% Domestic PC

scmp.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 22

Shenzhen Clears Smuggled-Chip and Stolen-iPhone Markets Ahead of Nov 17 APEC Summit, FT Finds

techmeme.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 18

Censys Finds 800+ Publicly Exposed ARTEX AI Pentest Deployments Linked to September South Korea Bank Hit and ConnectWise Breach

techcrunch.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 26

US Intelligence Concludes Megaspeed Executive Alice Huang Was Recruited by China's MSS to Target Jensen Huang

nytimes.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

Bloomberg: Warren-led Senate Banking would target Nvidia's chip exports and circular AI financing

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

Nvidia Requires Southeast Asian Cloud Partners to Enroll in Fleet Intelligence GPU Tracking to Keep NCP Status

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

Taiwan Stocks Suffer Record Intraday Point Drop, Korea Halts Trading as AI-Chip Rout Spreads Across Asia

asia.nikkei.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 24

SLA Lifts Spatial-Language-Action Robot Policy 24pp Over Pi 0.5 Across Real-World Deployment

huggingface.co · 2026-11-06 · Score: 19

Tencent Opens 31.7B WeLM-Image With Dual-Path MoT for Unified Generation and Editing

huggingface.co · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

YMTC Targets 70% Domestic Equipment at Fourth NAND Fab, Up From 50% at Third Factory

reuters.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

ALERT GOP Committee Chairs Demand Nov 18 Huang Briefing on Megaspeed Executive Tied to China Intelligence

cnbc.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 30

Reuters: ~600,000 Nvidia H200 Chips Stockpiled in Hong Kong as Beijing Withholds Mainland Import Approval

reuters.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 23

CNBC: Chinese chipmakers' overseas-engineer hiring collides with Taiwan and Korea trade-secret laws

cnbc.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 22

China's top NAND maker YMTC pauses $4.9B Shanghai IPO as CSRC slows chip and AI listings

reuters.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 22

China's export curbs on tungsten squeeze micro drill bits used to make AI chip substrates

asia.nikkei.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 27

Moonshot Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights, 2.8T-Param MoE with 1M Context and MoonViT-V2 Vision

huggingface.co · 2026-11-03 · Score: 26

AGIBOT Livestreams Six G2 Humanoids Working a 24-Hour Convenience-Store Shift Rotation

interestingengineering.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 17

Xpeng Opens 4B GroundingPI Perception Model, Tops GPT-6 Astra on 34-Benchmark Average

cnevpost.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 26

Tencent Preparing Consumer AI Search Engine Blending AI Answers With Authoritative Web Sources

technode.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 22

Baidu Launches Apollo World, a Driving Simulator Generating 100,000 km of Synthetic Scenes Per Day

technode.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 27

Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance order 6M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips for $70B, expect just 1% in 4 months

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 23

Oracle scraps $7B, five-year Tencent AI chip-lease deal under Trump administration pressure

ft.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 23

The Information Maps Nvidia's Soft-Power Playbook Over Customers and US Chip Policy

theinformation.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 20

Revolut Cuts AI Coding Inference Costs ~90% by Swapping Claude Code for Self-Hosted GLM-5.3 on 56 B200 GPUs

theregister.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 27

China's NDRC Readies Full-Lifecycle AI Safety Regulation Covering DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 23

The Information: Huawei Ascend 960DT Will Rely Heavily on Samsung and SK Hynix HBM Routed Through South Korea

theinformation.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 23

Lingyi Humanoid Wins China's First Mount Tai Robot Climb Across 3.9km and 3,100 Stone Steps

technode.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 20

CNBC: Nvidia's Two Newest Humanoid Reference Platforms Both Ship With Chinese Robot Hands

cnbc.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 22

UK NCSC Warns AI-Powered Ransomware Likely to Hit Critical Infrastructure by 2028

ncsc.gov.uk · 2026-11-03 · Score: 26

ALERT Meituan Opens LongCat-2.5 Preview: 1.6T-Param Native Multimodal Agentic Model With 1M-Token Context

technode.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 29

Rest of World: Hirundo and Lazarus Scrub Chinese Model Censorship, Deploy 'ReAligned' Qwen at ~12 US Firms

restofworld.org · 2026-11-02 · Score: 27

iQIYI Opens China's First AI Film Studio in Shanghai, Starts Shooting Internet Feature 'Cop in Trouble'

prnewswire.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 17

Newsletter Issues (20)

#542 AI week ahead: data center pause backers could win 15 governor races

2026-11-02 · 1 mentions

#524 What AI models are actually coming in the next six months?

2026-08-20 · 1 mentions

#519 AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests

2026-08-06 · 1 mentions

#515 China's AI is redrawing the AI race

2026-07-20 · 1 mentions

#512 Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots

2026-07-09 · 1 mentions

#506 Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.

2026-06-22 · 1 mentions

#504 America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.

2026-06-17 · 1 mentions

#496 Anthropic's Pentagon model is now everyone's model

2026-05-27 · 1 mentions

AI geopolitics: industrial policy goes from speech to enforcement

2026-04-25 · 1 mentions

#486 Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI

2026-04-22 · 1 mentions

AI Regulation: Musk wants training to be speech

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: The chip war is now slowing the US too

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

Robotics: A humanoid you can buy for $42,000

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

#481 Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed

2026-04-09 · 1 mentions

#423 Issue #423: DeepSeek: Bad for Silicon Valley, Great for You?

2025-01-30 · 1 mentions

#431 Issue #431: Is America falling behind in the AI race?

2025-03-27 · 1 mentions

#459 Issue #459: Is Elon Musk the worst in Tech?

2026-01-13 · 1 mentions

#461 Nadella warns of AI bubble; Karp's labor thesis at Davos

2026-01-21 · 1 mentions

#467 Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI.

2026-02-26 · 1 mentions

#469 GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes

2026-03-06 · 1 mentions