Chinese coverage stresses Beijing’s warning that EU pressure will not force concessions, while Brussels is preparing a mechanism to remove China from the single market; the timing keeps trade-war risk alive.

Beijing's proposed export-catalog revision adds 40 technologies, including 23 AI areas; Chinese coverage foregrounds the state-control implications, while US coverage is absent from this batch.

Shanghai deployments show VLA systems handling tasks such as pharmacy picking while world models are tested for predicting what actions will do before a robot acts.

Chinese coverage stresses that Muse Spark Open scores below several domestic models on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks, even as Meta promotes local execution across two Mac Studios.

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Beijing's ambassador urged Manila to contain maritime disputes and reject a zero-sum choice between China and the US, pairing de-escalation language with criticism of Philippine policy.

A Chinese protocol for declaring whether AI may read and control app screens has exposed a platform power struggle: 155 apps, including Tencent and Alibaba services, opted out.

A researcher behind GeoPT has launched a startup pursuing world models with physical modeling, building on work that learns dynamics from static geometry and particle trajectories.

EIR raised over 100 million yuan to develop its companion-focused humanoid robot and build a production base, pitching emotional interaction alongside task capability.

Chinese coverage frames a proposed Pentagon blacklist as a threat to research collaboration, while the US proposal would target 58 universities and 62 technology labs.

China reported R&D spending above 3.9 trillion yuan (about $550 billion) in 2025, up 8.2%, with double-digit growth in basic science and university funding.

A China labor-rights roundup reports prolonged questioning of an activist and tobacco farmers protesting low purchase prices, offering a rare view of both state pressure and local economic grievances.

China displayed drone interceptors and other uncrewed systems at a Beijing counterterrorism forum, where delegates discussed how emerging technology could enable new attacks.

China's smartphone shipments fell 15.4% year over year in the third quarter; Huawei was the only major brand in the report to post double-digit growth.

An interview revisits three reported deaths in Chinese gene-therapy trials and asks how investigator-initiated studies are reviewed, monitored and regulated as the sector expands.

A newly published Xi Jinping speech renews the anti-corruption warning weeks before a major Party conclave, signaling continued emphasis on political discipline.

Houmo is betting on SRAM compute-in-memory in both planar and stacked packages, splitting its design effort between larger capacity and higher bandwidth for edge AI.

A Tencent short-drama service is being promoted inside WeChat as ByteDance’s Red Fruit grows into a major attention business, revealing how Chinese platforms are competing for long viewing sessions.

Damo Drones is shifting from synchronized light shows toward autonomous aircraft for GPS-denied spaces, using its claimed 66 million flight records and existing swarm-control stack.

Alibaba's TEKO team says autonomous coding depends on both machine-readable correctness criteria and observable app behavior; its reported test-generation pipeline had only a 6.4% end-to-end execution rate.

Local bans are squeezing China's informal neighborhood-car industry, while export-focused maker Taotao is reportedly profitable selling low-speed vehicles in the US.

Tomato Novel now requires its lowest-tier authors to complete a 150,000- or 300,000-word book before applying for a contract, shifting the cost of screening from the platform to writers.

Douyin says it will add claims against a JD employee over alleged social-media rumors about platform manipulation, turning an e-commerce rivalry into a public legal dispute.

The companies say ModelSphere manages model serving across multiple Chinese accelerator types and can improve cluster throughput through automated scheduling.

Researchers in China found a 150-million-year-old flightless avialan fossil, challenging the assumption that flightlessness in birds evolved only after flight had already emerged.

Chinese AI deployment engineers describe bosses asking to replace IT teams or track employee output, exposing how workplace surveillance and layoff hopes are colliding with the limits of enterprise AI.

Douyin’s standalone group-buying app briefly reached more than 20 million daily users with in-app referrals and discounts, then slowed as the platform reduced subsidies and raised merchant commissions.

A House committee released extensive records on investigations of researchers, many Chinese American, as part of a push for tighter scrutiny of China-linked academic research.

A Chinese analysis describes an unannounced ByteDance project built around real-time video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming reportedly coordinating teams and compute.

Chen Guangyu, a teenage researcher whose work contributed to Kimi’s Attention Residuals architecture, says he has left Moonshot AI and is heading to the San Francisco Bay Area.

UBTech presents Thinker-WM as a unified model that jointly represents video, depth and robot actions, with top scores on three named benchmarks.

China's foreign ministry rejected a proposed three-way denuclearization discussion, arguing that China's arsenal is far smaller and that Washington must first meet its special disarmament responsibilities.

China’s embassy in Thailand warns of repeated cases in which Chinese nationals are allegedly recruited with lucrative job or business offers, then detained and trafficked toward the Thai-Myanmar border.

Chinese coverage says Apple’s approved first-wave Intelligence features will use Alibaba’s model support, while the newer AI Siri remains out of the initial test; the delay shows how localization is a product and regulatory project.

Zhongwan says its tiny aircraft can use onboard vision SLAM and a 0.8-TOPS compute module to navigate indoors without GPS; it reports more than 5,000 units ordered this year.