Alibaba’s Qwen Will Power Apple Intelligence in China From December
Apple says developers can test its China AI features from November 4, with Qwen built into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence in iOS 27.3.
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The November 2, 2026 brief
China’s Central Bank Convenes Banks and Brokers as AI Selloff Extends Stock Slide
Regulators meet banks, brokers and fund firms on November 2 after the CSI 300 posted a record 12th straight weekly drop and fell 8.5% in October.
DeepSeek Open-Sources a Coding Super-Agent Built to Need Less Human Attention
DeepSeek’s Harness team published its Super-agent design on October 31 and released an MIT-licensed prototype that works on one GitHub repository.
China Demands US Revoke FCC Ban on Chinese Device-Testing Labs
The FCC rule takes effect on December 1, 2028, and covers the labs that tested 82% of US-bound electronics in 2025, according to FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Meta Built a Humanoid Robot Prototype With China’s Fourier in Three Months
The 1.5-meter prototype, called Max, runs on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor chip, and work on a second version began in September, The Information reported.
China GPU Maker MetaX Lifts Quarterly Sales 367% and Core Profit to RMB308 Million
MetaX’s third-quarter revenue of RMB1.5 billion beat its first-half total, while net profit was just RMB26.53 million after non-recurring losses.
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Closes RMB19.8 Billion Raise as Kingdee and MetaX Fill a Gap
Two investors failed to pay in full, leaving the round about RMB645 million short of its RMB20.447 billion cap, Kuaishou said on October 30.
China’s Factory Gauge Slips to 49.3 as High-Tech Manufacturing Keeps Growing
High-tech manufacturing’s PMI stood at 51.3 in October, while the overall reading fell short of the 50.0 that economists polled by Reuters had expected.
Cambricon Co-Founder Urges One Ethics Test for Chinese and US AI Models
Chen Yunji told a Shanghai forum that leading models from DeepSeek, ByteDance and OpenAI should all pass a universal “ethics checker” agreed by every nation.
Huawei’s HIMA Car Deliveries Halve in October, Erasing Its 2026 Growth
The alliance delivered 33,537 vehicles, down 50.84% from a year earlier, leaving its 10-month total of 400,766 down 3.91% after nine months of growth.