In what appears to be a scene ripped out straight from a James Bond movie, the CEO of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, has apparently escaped China via the maritime route just days before stringent exit controls were slated to take effect, if a wild rumor is anything to go by. The rumor reportedly originated from internal Huawei chat screenshots, with heavy police presence at the company's HQ only adding fuel to this speculative frenzy This particular rumor first began circulating on September 12 when some internal Huawei chats surfaced that referenced unpaid wages and a heavy police contingent at the company's […]

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When you have Anthropic's Jacob Coxon literally boasting about the fact that he collaborated with others to make his doom-and-gloom-style resignation post go viral, while continuing to tout the supposedly noble intentions of his former employer in one podcast after another, one is hard-pressed not to adopt a predominantly cynical bent on the coordinated push towards pacing the progress on AI, made all the more incredulous by the fact that OpenAI echoed that call within hours when Dario Amodei and Sam Altman rarely see eye to eye on any topic under the sun. To a skeptic, an assumption of obfuscation […]

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Chinese electronic design automation (EDA) firm Empyrean Technology is using agentic artificial intelligence to accelerate its chip design process. The firm's chairman, Liu Weiping, shared the details at a conference in Shenzen, China, last week. His remarks come as Chinese firms continue to manage around the constraints levied on them through chip equipment sanctions. According to Weiping, his firm has managed to cut down design times for some tasks by as much as 75% through using agentic AI, and his comments came days before China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a new development plan for the information and […]

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AI model routers are emerging as one of the biggest threat vectors for data security, as evidenced by a shocking anecdote from a researcher, who was able to uncover a veritable treasure trove from a data dump on routing sessions related to Anthropic's Claude, with grave ramifications for vulnerable Chinese government entities and companies such as Huawei and Xiaomi. According to a researcher, just 6TB of data dump gleaned from routing sessions related to Anthropic's Claude can yield enough valuable credentials to hack top Chinese government agencies and companies For the benefit of those who might not be aware, LLM […]

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Imagine you can tap into a government-run AI model for all of your requests, and that too ad infinitum. That was the stated purpose behind the "fanzha-ai-proxy" project that just got booted off GitHub, with many Chinese developers comparing it to "picking fleas off a tiger's head" in what is a nod to the severe penalties that China typically hands for such stunts. The premise behind a Chinese developer's fanzha-ai-proxy project was as utilitarian as daring and ambitious, but it was not meant to last A Chinese developer, who goes by the pseudonym "kltyton," had released the "fanzha-ai-proxy" project on […]

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The near-constant flip-flop around Apple's potential partnership with China's DRAM giant CXMT is finally nearing a decisive resolution, with all vectors pointing to a collaboration of some sort despite the toxicity that it brings for Apple in Washington. CXMT admits it is open to collaborating with "top-tier" customers like Apple As we noted recently, Apple is banking on CXMT to gain some much-needed leverage in its periodic negotiations with major memory players such as Micron, Samsung, SK hynix, and Kioxia. For its part though, the Trump administration is reportedly dangling this potential partnership as a carrot to extract some concessions from the […]

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China's Naura Technology Group, a key domestic semiconductor manufacturing equipment provider, claims to have developed a two-step etch process for manufacturing 3D DRAM chips. 3D DRAM chips are the next generation of DRAM technology as they seek to overcome the constraints of current chips when it comes to cell density. A paper published by Naura in the IEEE journal explains progress made in etching uniformly across the 64 layers of 3D DRAM to shift the focus to vertical manufacturing instead of the horizontal constraints encountered by non-EUV lithography. Chinese Chip Equipment Manufacturer Naura Details Breakthrough In Semiconductor Etch Engineering That […]

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It was only in July that DeepSeek's CEO created seismic waves by boldly declaring that NVIDIA was digging its own grave in China. And now, merely weeks later, DeepSeek is apparently helping that prognostication come to fruition by placing a massive order for Huawei's Ascend 950DT AI chips, further dimming NVIDIA's prospects in a market that is increasingly becoming insular. DeepSeek has reportedly eschewed NVIDIA's China-specific H200 GPUs to place a gigantic ~$2.56 billion order for 160,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips, which will populate its new 1GW data center in Mongolia Bloomberg is now reporting that DeepSeek has […]

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The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code and were critical for the botnet's communication and essential operations.

The Trump administration is apparently dangling Apple's potential commercial relationship with China's memory giants, CXMT and YMTC, as a carrot of sorts ahead of President Xi's visit to the US in September, setting the stage for what's being perceived in Washington as a magnanimous offering to China, one that also helps to ease Apple's supply chain-related woes. Apple's procurement of DRAM and NAND modules from China's CXMT and YMTC, respectively, has become a geopolitical flash point ahead of President Xi's official visit to the US For the benefit of those who might not be aware, as per recent reports, Apple […]

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When an unknown AI lab drops an anonymous model - Ox Alpha - for free, while declaring that they have the capacity to process up to 100 trillion tokens per day, we can reasonably surmise that the 'Wild West' age of cutthroat competition for AI models has arrived. Given the fact that not many AI labs have the capacity to process the declared quantum of tokens per day, the internet is going bonkers trying to figure out if the Ox Alpha is an unreleased model in the GLM family, DeepSeek's V4-Flash, or SpaceXAI's unreleased Grok model. It is quite likely […]

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NVIDIA is trying to thread the needle when it comes to its gigantic customer base in China, attempting to balance the efficacy of its China-specific offerings with the restrictions imposed under sweeping US export controls. Now, at a time when Beijing is actively discouraging enterprises from importing the NVIDIA H200 GPUs that the Trump administration has specifically authorized for use within China, NVIDIA is apparently trying a different route to provide value to its Chinese customer base while remaining within the bounds of US export controls, and this narrow route apparently centers on Groq's LPUs. NVIDIA is apparently designing a […]

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Despite the booming demand for its products and aggressive plans for capacity expansion, China's CXMT is unlikely to make a significant dent in the global DRAM market, according to a research report from South Korea's Hanwha Securities. CXMT has managed to carve a place for itself in the global memory market as booming AI demand stretches the production capacity of key players. Its products are primarily targeted towards domestic Chinese firms, with multiple reports having indicated that Apple is also interested in buying the firm's products. CXMT's Contribution To Global Memory Chip Production Growth Will Fall In 2027, Says Report […]

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The U.S. phone provider escaped a large-scale breach of its network after identifying Chinese-backed hackers early on.

An illegal intrusion into an IT system is a serious criminal offense in China, one that carries a 3-year jail term. Even so, some adrenaline junkies inadvertently go to great lengths to invite the ire of law enforcement agencies, as members of an API relay station centered on distributing 'jailbroken' AI models have just found out to their detriment. An Underground AI Group Kept Selling 'Jailbroken' Models In China - Then One User Took It Too Far A bizarre anecdote out of China has just shown how a person's foolishness can end up biting the proverbial feeding hand. For the […]

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In what is a seminal step for China's fast-evolving space industry, LandSpace has just managed to successfully recover the booster of its Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) rocket, becoming a viable counterpart to the state-backed CALT and its CZ-10B rocket. LandSpace's ZQ-3 rocket just became a viable counterpart to the state-backed CALT and its CZ-10B rocket China's space-related ambitions are growing by leaps and bounds. We reported recently that the Asian giant has now reserved over 200,000 orbital slots with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with some estimates pegging the total number at 244,000. Well, now China is apparently becoming serious about filling […]

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There has been much consternation in the United States over the past few weeks around the supposed proliferation of open-weight AI models from China. Even so, DeepSeek's newly instituted peak-hour pricing mechanism belies those fears, and suggests that most of its users still reside in Asia. While this paradigm is also likely to hold true for some of China's other high-flying AI models, such as Alibaba's Qwen series of LLMs, the sheer scale of oncoming demand is truly a marvel to behold, with Qwen models alone occupying a download footprint on Hugging Face that is 2.6x that of Meta's! DeepSeek's […]

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Chinese memory upstart CXMT is making important progress with its DDR5 memory chips, according to a report in the Chinese media. The firm has become a regular part of industry news as it grows in importance due to high demand from the local industry and Apple's interest in buying its chips to ease the pressure of the global memory chip shortage. Now, today's report suggests that CXMT's DDR5 memory chips, marketed as being manufactured on the 17-nanometer manufacturing process, have reached a 90% yield to allow the firm to make major progress in its ability to ship large volumes. Acer […]

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