China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports
China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported fo…

Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history
Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhi…

China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron
China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron

Our process capability is now on par with the most advanced mass-produced nodes out there in the industry. Luo Xiaodong, vice president of ChangXin Memory Technologies and head of its marketing centre, said that at the World Manufacturing Convention in…

DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-me…

European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi
European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi

A joint venture between Chinese carmaker SAIC and German car brand Audi, the all-electric AUDI (all caps) brand has been turning heads in the Chinese market with solid all-weather performance, reasonable prices and plenty of chunky Teutonic style. Now,…

The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on S…

China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip
China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given a…

Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wen…

From 10-97% SOC in 9 minutes: Sunwoda joins the flash charging race
From 10-97% SOC in 9 minutes: Sunwoda joins the flash charging race

Chinese battery brand Sunwoda has just revealed a new EV battery charging system that can add 100 km (~62 miles) of range to an EV every minute, and can take a battery from from 10-97% SOC in less than 10 minutes. At room temperature.

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Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade repre…