09 Jan 2024
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China wants to shore up its automotive supply chain.
On Thursday, the industrial ministry (MIIT) published an automotive chip standards development plan.
A draft was released in March.
Some context: The global auto industry is only recently recovering from a three-year shortage of specia...
May 24, 2024
China’s attitude toward foreign foundational AI models is evolving. On Thursday, the cybersecurity technical standards body (TC260) released draft security standards for generative AI. These will help implement generative AI regs the cyberspace administration (CAC) introduced last year. Some context:… Read More »
May 24, 2024
Foreign businesses need not fear the Unreliable Entity List (UEL). That was the key message from Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) spokesperson He Yadong on Thursday. Some context: Earlier this week, MofCom placed three US defense contractors on the UEL for… Read More »
May 24, 2024
I’ll come to your party – but I won’t have fun. This week, South Korea hosted the AI Seoul Summit, which was held in, erm, Seoul. Some context: The AI Seoul Summit brings together scientists and world leaders to hash… Read More »