China's State Council released a new five-year battery plan on 28 September, two days after new entry-exit rules took effect letting authorities block engineers from leaving, according to pv magazine and DW. The measures show Beijing is trying to keep both technology and talent inside its borders as it races the US on AI and clean energy.
Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu claimed this week that the company's Ascend AI processors have overtaken Nvidia in Chinese market share, a claim The Register reported on 30 September and which lands as Washington's export controls reshape the world's second-largest AI chip market.
Omdia expects 59% of organisations to raise AI budgets by 10% or more in 2027, part of four forces the analyst house says will reshape the industry, it said on 30 September.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the first official US enforcement action targeting rogue AI agents, The Guardian reported on 30 September.
Beijing has widened overseas travel restrictions for top private-sector AI staff to cover spouses and children, Bloomberg reported on 28 September, while Deepseek on 30 September shipped open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips.
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said this week that the company's Ascend neural processing units have surpassed Nvidia in Chinese market share. The Register reported the claim on 30 September, noting it rests on Huawei's own collected data.
The European Commission has been accused of siding with Big Tech over the public's right to know the environmental impact of the AI build-out, with journalists and NGOs taking the case to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee in a filing dated 30 September.
Deepseek released open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips on 30 September, targeting the software gap that keeps Nvidia's CUDA platform dominant. The release came one day after President Trump and major AI executives signed voluntary safety controls at the White House.
China has widened overseas travel restrictions on leading AI professionals at private firms to cover their spouses and children, Bloomberg reported on 28 September, days after Deepseek and Huawei shipped open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, the Guardian reported on 30 September.
Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu claimed this week that the company's Ascend neural processing units have overtaken Nvidia in Chinese market share, as DeepSeek and Beijing push a domestic chip stack.
The European Union says it will keep pushing for global AI safety rules, one day after a White House accord that six AI companies signed but that commits them to nothing enforceable. The conflict now runs on two tracks: diplomacy in Brussels, disclosure litigation in Aarhus.
China has expanded overseas travel restrictions on top private-sector AI staff to cover their spouses and children, according to a Bloomberg report carried by Business Standard on 28 September, the same week DeepSeek open-sourced six modules for Huawei's Ascend chips.
DeepSeek released open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips on 30 September, the clearest sign yet that China's AI industry is trying to build a software stack that does not depend on Nvidia's CUDA.
China has extended overseas travel restrictions on top AI and chip executives in private companies to cover their spouses and children, Bloomberg reported on 28 September, widening a policy designed to stop know-how reaching the United States.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian.
The US Justice Department and FBI have seized two hacking platforms used by a China state-sponsored group, in the most recent dated development in a week that also saw Beijing broaden overseas travel curbs to the families of top AI professionals.