A study published on Thursday found Chinese firms filed 44 per cent of the world's drone patents in 2024 against 17 per cent for US firms, but US patents matched China's on value, a split that mirrors the wider self-sufficiency picture.
China's new entry-exit rules took effect in the last week of September, giving authorities the power to stop engineers, founders and specialists from leaving the country if their expertise in batteries, rare earths or artificial intelligence is judged a threat to industrial and technological security, according to DW.
MetaMask disclosed an ongoing infrastructure security incident on Thursday and is pulling affected Ethereum validators out of staking as a precaution, with the final validators due to exit by the end of 7 October 2026.
Security startup Glow Security reported on 29 September that AI coding agents uploaded more than 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repositories at over 300 organizations, including Fortune 500 firms and a frontier AI lab.
On 1 October, security startup Glow Security reported finding more than 13,000 internal company screenshots that AI agents had uploaded to public GitHub repositories, exposing customer data, login credentials and unreleased features at 343 organisations. It lands in the same week that Epic paused most product development over MyChart bugs and MetaMask began exiting Ethereum validators.
Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu claimed this week that the company's Ascend NPUs have overtaken Nvidia in Chinese market share. The US export control regime that pushed Beijing toward self-sufficiency keeps raising awkward questions about how restricted silicon still reaches China.
MI5 told UK universities on Wednesday to review all work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), saying the body funds research for China's Ministry of State Security and that more than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects.
China's new entry-exit rules, in force since late September, let authorities block engineers and founders from leaving if their expertise in batteries, rare earths or AI is judged a threat to industrial and technological security.
China's new entry-exit rules, effective from the third week of September, allow authorities to block engineers and founders from leaving the country if their work in batteries, rare earths, or AI is deemed a threat to "industrial and technological security," DW reported on 24 September.
China published a five-year battery industry plan on 28 September. It targets 15,000-cycle lithium cells and preliminary large-scale use of solid-state batteries by 2030. The plan also places sodium-ion and flow batteries inside a multi-chemistry storage portfolio. The document, dated 14 September, was issued by seven government bodies, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration, according to pv magazine.
Tencent has signed a five-year deal worth $7 billion to lease 100,000 AI chips from Oracle, the Financial Times reported on 1 October. The arrangement highlights how US export controls are reshaping where AI compute is bought and sold.
Six US AI companies signed a voluntary safety document in Washington on 29 and 30 September, while in Brussels the AI Act's obligations keep hardening. The gap between the two is now the story.
Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu claims its Ascend AI chips have overtaken Nvidia in Chinese market share, in a Q&A release reported by The Register on 30 September, as US export controls continue to redraw the global semiconductor map.
China's new entry-exit rules, reported by DW on 24 September, allow authorities to stop engineers, founders and specialists from leaving if their expertise in batteries, rare earths or AI is deemed a threat to industrial and technological security.
China's seven-ministry battery plan, publicly released on 28 September, sets 2030 targets for solid-state cells and 15,000-cycle lithium batteries, two days after DeepSeek shipped open-source tools for Huawei's Ascend chips.
The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr over the dangers their agentic AI poses to consumers, The Guardian reported on 30 September, the same day President Trump signed a code of conduct that Politico describes as only "morally binding".
On 1 October, US President Donald Trump and six tech companies signed a one-page declaration on AI controls at a White House lunch. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and others.
China's new entry-exit rules took effect and now let authorities stop engineers, founders and specialists from leaving if their expertise in batteries, rare earths or AI is judged a threat to industrial and technological security, DW reported on 24 September.