Chinese authorities meet with top tech firms to discuss AI access restrictions

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The post China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief China’s Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models—including unreleased ones—per Reuters. The proposed framework: a tiered system from simple filing for basic tools to domestic-only restrictions on the most sensitive frontier models. If China restricts its own open-weight models, the alternative businesses reached for when the U.S. cut off Anthropic and gated GPT-5.6 in June disappears with them. The U.S. used its AI kill switch in June. China appears to be building one for July. Beijing has spent the past month in quiet talks with its biggest AI companies about restricting who gets to use them, according to Reuters. Chinese authorities held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai about potentially limiting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models—incl

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.

It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.

The post China had a new unicorn every 3 days in H1 of 2026 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. China has witnessed its second-highest number of new unicorns created in a half-year, amid the boom in AI and robotics.  In the first half of 2026, ending June, ITJuzi reports that China produced 67 new unicorns, which are private companies valued at least $1 billion.  By that count, it means a new unicorn was created roughly every three days in H1. That’s the second-fastest half-year growth China has witnessed since H2 of 2021, when 76 unicorns were created. AI, robotics mint 53% of new Chinese unicorns At the time in 2021, the growth was spread across electric vehicles, biomedicine, and consumer internet businesses. However, this year’s run was mostly concentrated on AI and robotics, which together accounted for more than 53% of the cohort, according to the report.  The standout was DeepSeek.The Hangzhou-based AI company closed its first outside funding round at a valuation of nearly 400

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