2025-08-14
Huawei sent a team of engineers to DeepSeek's office to help the company use its AI chip to develop the R2 model, according to two people. Yet despite having the team on site, DeepSeek could not conduct a successful training run on the Ascend chip
Financial Times
Sources: DeepSeek R2's launch delay is due to training issues on Huawei Ascend chips, prompting a switch to Nvidia chips for training and Huawei's for inference
Difficulties of training the start-up's latest system with Huawei's semiconductors highlight dependence on Nvidia
2024-11-19
China tech groups build Silicon Valley AI teams. “There are currently no restrictions on US-based entities related to or owned by Chinese tech companies accessing high-end AI chips through data centres located in the US.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
2024-05-20
State Department officials said a state-controlled Chinese company that helps repair international cables, S.B. Submarine Systems, appeared to be hiding its vessels' locations from radio and satellite tracking services, which the officials and others said defied easy explanation.
Wall Street Journal
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships
no easy ask in a sector that's globalized by design Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : U.S. officials are privately warning its telecommunications companies: Undersea cables that ferry ...
2024-01-03
🇨🇳has approved only 1/4 of applications to export data since the introduction of new data security laws. “The country's chief internet regulator has yet to approve thousands of requests from local and international businesses to send data”, officials said https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China has approved only ~25% of data export applications since a data security law took effect in September 2022
allowing some data to be sent abroad without review — and more permissions have been granted since then, multiple data security lawyers said it took at least six months for compani...
2023-05-08
A WSJ review of research papers and interviews with employees found that Chinese companies are studying techniques that could allow them to achieve state-of-the-art AI performance with fewer or less powerful semiconductors. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba use to develop AI systems without the latest chips
Wall Street Journal :
2023-02-20
Why China Didn't Invent ChatGPT. “The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn't always that way.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
One Useful Thing
A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned) — I fully embraced AI for my classes … Tweets: @doakshannon , @emollick , @emollick , @tung...
Why China Didn't Invent ChatGPT. “The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn't always that way.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector
2022-11-20
China tops U.S. to take research crown at global chip conference This is the first time China has taken the top spot in papers accepted by the ISSCC, which is considered the Olympics of the semiconductor sector. https://asia.nikkei.com/...
Nikkei Asia
China tops the US to take the top spot in research papers accepted by the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference for its 2023 event
Yuki Okoshi / Nikkei Asia :
2022-07-29
Jack Ma is taking a weeks-long tour in Europe after largely disappearing from public view for almost two years, adding to signs that China's government is easing pressure on the entrepreneur https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
By stepping away from Ant Group, Jack Ma escapes Beijing's scrutiny; Ma has been seen traveling Europe after disappearing from public view for almost two years
Bloomberg :
2021-10-04
China released the country's 1rst set of guidelines on AI ethics,emphasising user rights and data control.The guidelines are part of China's goal to become the global AI leader by 2030,but also align with Beijing's effort to crack down on BigTech influence https://www.scmp.com/...
South China Morning Post
China releases its first set of AI ethics guidelines, emphasizing user rights and data control, that align with Beijing's efforts to crack down on Big Tech
2021-05-10
ByteDance sold about $26 billion worth of make-up, clothing and other merchandise in 2020, achieving in its maiden year what Alibaba's Taobao took six years to accomplish. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
How ByteDance is competing with Alibaba in social commerce, including roping in influencers like Xiaomi's Lei Jun to livestream on TikTok's Chinese twin Douyin
Bloomberg :
2021-04-05
A Financial Times analysis of figures released by Shanghai's Star Market, which was launched to fanfare in July 2019, shows a record 76 companies suspended their IPO applications in March, or more than double the previous month. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A record 76 companies suspended their IPO applications for Shanghai's Star Market in March, more than doubling since February, as tech regulatory scrutiny rises
what's happening now is most certainly not,” https://giftarticle.ft.com/... Christian Caryl / @ccaryl : An ominous but revealing trend. Chinese tech companies are running scared of...
2019-12-01
Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of “fake news” created with technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
2019-11-30
Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of “fake news” created with technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
2019-11-25
In an unprecedented move, the technology giant filed three defamation claims in Paris over comments made during television programs by a French researcher, a broadcast journalist and a telecommunications sector expert. https://www.bloomberg.com/... di @technology
Bloomberg
Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled
Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg :