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US accuses Moonshot AI of accessing restricted Nvidia GB300 Blackwell chips via Thailand to train Kimi K3. What RASA means for cloud GPU procurement in the US, UK, and EU.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16 — a 2.8T sparse MoE model ranking first globally in Frontend Code Arena at 1,679 points. Full weights drop July 27.
China's CAC cleared Apple Intelligence on July 15 with Alibaba's Qwen powering it. PrismML compressed 27B params to under 4GB — runs on iPhone 15 and newer. Alibaba shares +4%.
Chinese analyst Victor Gao warned India that Beijing controls Brahmaputra headwaters and can restrict river flows if New Delhi weaponizes the Indus.
The US government issued a warning in 2026 that China is actively pressuring US state governments and businesses to shun Taiwan — a documented economic coercion campaign with direct supply chain implications.
Complete China-US trade war timeline for 2025-2026: Liberation Day 145% tariffs, the 30% truce, Nvidia chip bans, rare earth retaliation, and what it costs developers in hardware.
China plans a $295B national AI data center grid by 2028 with 80% domestic chips mandated. Nvidia and AMD are locked out; Huawei and Biren are positioned to supply.
China enacted sweeping tech transfer controls June 11 2026, explicitly authorising government retaliation against nations that restrict Chinese tech investment. API and developer impact.
BYD confirmed its secret humanoid robot project codename Yao-Shun-Yu, running since 2022 in Business Unit 15, with plans to sell robots through its global auto dealer network.
Trump said China and Japan lack "courage or will" to open Hormuz. China fired back: the strait was open before your war. A full breakdown of the most explosive diplomatic exchange of the conflict.
Spain's PM Sánchez called on China to leverage its Iran influence for peace — hours after Trump said China lacks "courage or will." Why Europe is going around Washington.
US intel: China delivered 2,000 tons of sodium perchlorate to Iran — enough for 785 missiles. MANPADs imminent. Trump threatened 50% tariffs. China denied everything.
On March 11 a mystery 1-trillion-parameter model appeared on OpenRouter. The AI community burned 500 billion tokens assuming it was DeepSeek V4. On March 19 Xiaomi revealed it was theirs.
Hua Hong's Huali Fab 6 in Shanghai is readying 7nm chip production. US-blacklisted GPU maker Biren is already taping out there. What it means for China's AI chip stack.
OpenClaw hit 329,000 GitHub stars — surpassing React. China is now the top adopter globally. Shenzhen is paying developers to build on it. MiniMax jumped 27.4% in one day.
Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw was arrested for smuggling $2.5B in Nvidia AI servers to China using shell companies and dummy servers with serial numbers swapped using a hair dryer. Stock crashed 28%.
Jensen Huang confirmed Nvidia is restarting H200 manufacturing for China with US export licenses secured. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent approved for 400K+ units, capped at 75K per customer.
Alibaba launched Wukong on March 17 as China's enterprise AI agent standard. Tencent fired back with WorkBuddy. Here is what the China AI agent battle means for global enterprise software.
ByteDance is deploying 36,000 Nvidia B200 Blackwell chips in Malaysia via a $2.5B deal, using Southeast Asian cloud firms to legally access hardware blocked under US export controls.
FBI and CISA confirmed Chinese state hackers Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon have been dormant inside US power grids, water systems, and telecoms for years. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what infrastructure teams must do now.
China's SMEE has a working DUV prototype and active EUV program. If it ships by 2027, US export controls on China's chip industry effectively fail.
China is running the largest state-directed AI programme in history — often called its "AI Manhattan Project." But US and allied export controls have critical gaps. Here is how China is navigating restrictions, what the gaps are, and what this means for global AI competition.
China submitted its 15th Five-Year Plan to the National People's Congress on March 5, 2026. AI appears 50+ times. Semiconductors barely register. Washington's chip export strategy is targeting the wrong layer. Here is what developers and tech strategists need to understand.
Honor, the Chinese smartphone brand spun off from Huawei, unveiled a full humanoid robot at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. The move signals that Chinese consumer electronics brands are pivoting aggressively into embodied AI, following BYD, Xiaomi, and Unitree.
Salt Typhoon, a Chinese state APT group, has compromised at least 200 companies across 80 countries including US telecom giants. AT&T and Verizon cannot confirm the hackers are out.
Huawei plans to produce 600,000 Ascend 910C AI chips in 2026, nearly doubling 2025 output. China's AI companies are training models on a hardware stack completely separate from Nvidia and CUDA.
ByteDance Doubao has 155M weekly users. Qwen 3.5 beats GPT-5 on maths benchmarks. Chinese AI models now make up 30% of global AI usage in 2026.
Chinese espionage group UNC2814 used Google Sheets to hide C2 traffic as normal cloud document activity. Mandiant caught it. Here is how the attack worked.
At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala — watched by nearly one billion people — Unitree's humanoid robots performed autonomous kung fu, aerial flips, and parkour. Last year they barely walked. Here is what actually happened and what the technical progress means.
DeepSeek R2 just dropped. It is multimodal, covers 100+ languages, and was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips despite US export controls. Here is what changed from R1, what the benchmarks mean, and how to use it including running it locally.
India hosted the world's largest AI summit; China's humanoid robots performed in front of a billion viewers. Both say they're winning the AI race. Here's the honest breakdown — India vs China AI 2026.
WAIC 2026 Shanghai (July): the World Artificial Intelligence Conference returns. What happened at WAIC 2025 — DeepSeek, Huawei CloudMatrix, 800+ companies — and what to expect from China's biggest AI event in 2026.
DeepSeek R1 matched GPT-4 performance for $6 million — a fraction of what OpenAI spent. Here is a plain-English explanation of what DeepSeek actually is, why Nvidia lost $500 billion in a day, and what it means for developers and businesses.