Taiwan Weighs 10-Year Prison Terms for Unlicensed AI Chip Exports to China
A draft amendment heard on November 2 would also punish shipments routed through third countries, a gap that left a Nvidia server case without export charges.
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The November 3, 2026 brief
Huawei Says More Than 1,000 Ascend SuperPoDs Are Deployed as 950 Wins Wuzhen Award
Huawei also claims its 1,024-chip Ascend 950 system uses 45% of its compute during training and that more than 40 models were pretrained natively on Ascend.
China’s AI Inference Data Overtakes Training Data, MIIT Think Tank Says
CCID’s new trends report puts China’s average daily token calls above 175 trillion as of June, up from more than 140 trillion in March.
China Mobile Fund Leads Near-RMB2 Billion Round in UNT’s Silicon Carbide Unit
Inspur and Naura’s investment arm joined the Series C, which values Xinlian Power Technology at US$2 billion as it targets power supplies for AI servers.
Israeli and US Startups Edit Alibaba’s Qwen to Remove Chinese Censorship
Lazarus AI says its realigned Qwen models now run at about a dozen US companies, and Hirundo says its edits cut biased answers from 89.8% to 2.8%.
GenRobot AI Raises US$100 Million From SAIC, Baidu and Galbot for Robot Training Data
The Beijing startup records people doing household, factory and warehouse tasks and sells the cleaned recordings to robot developers as training data.
China’s World-Model Founders Say the Technology Is Still Far From Factory Floors
Inverse Matrix’s Chen Boyuan put the field five to 10 kilometers into a 100-kilometer marathon, even as 39 world-model startups raised first rounds this year.
Shanghai Data Group Releases Nearly 300 Public Data Products Across 14 Sectors
The first batch from Shanghai’s two licensed public-data operators covers finance, transport, urban governance and education, under a May pricing system.
Z.ai’s Tang Jie Calls Self-Improving AI the Path to AGI, With Safety First
Tang told a Shanghai forum that AI building AI is a new research paradigm, two months after an agent tripled throughput on Z.ai’s 100,000-chip system.
China’s STAR 50 Jumps 3.1% as Investors Rotate Into AI Applications
Mango Excellent Media hit its 20% daily limit on AI short dramas as the CSI 300 rose 0.8% after a record 12 straight weekly declines.