Beijing imposed sweeping export controls on 10 American companies, including a rare-earth miner, and barred 46 others from government procurement, retaliating directly against the Pentagon's recent blacklisting of Alibaba and Baidu.
Cross-border biotech deals between China and the United States are becoming more complicated and may face a modest slowdown due to stepped-up US efforts to restrict investment and technology transfers, according to ING Research.
The Trump administration has formally raised concerns with Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML that one of its most advanced chip-making machines may have reached China in violation of US-led export restrictions.
Jie Tang, CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai, directly countered Elon Musk’s prediction that Chinese AI firms would reach Mythos-level LLMs by Q1 2027, declaring that China will achieve a Fable 5-class model 'soon' — before the end of this year.
Zhang Yanzhong, a leading figure behind China's C919 passenger jet, presented a detailed roadmap to build a fully self-reliant supply chain, warning that Western sanctions could sever access to critical foreign components.
The first external round, at a $50 billion valuation, locks in CEO Liang Wenfeng's control and solidifies the startup's role as Beijing's designated leader in the global AI race.
CNNC has begun mass-producing ultra-pure silicon-28, breaking a foreign monopoly on a material critical for error-resistant quantum chips and advancing China’s push for self-reliant quantum computing.
Chinese memory chip leader CXMT and Alibaba Group have formed a 3.91 billion yuan ($577 million) long-term investment fund to accelerate semiconductor innovation as Beijing counters Washington's technology curbs.
Washington forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 globally; Beijing's Zhipu open-sources GLM-5.2, turning containment into an accelerant for Chinese self-reliance.