China Ai

Apple confirmed it will begin beta testing Apple Intelligence in mainland China on November 4, integrating Alibaba's Qwen into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. Features will ship via an iOS developer beta ahead of a wider release with iOS 27.3 in December.

Product Launch • TechNode

China's MOFCOM and MOST issued Announcement No. 48, proposing to add 40 technologies to the export control catalogue, 23 of them in AI, with an interim pre-export registration requirement already in effect. It marks China's first frontier AI export controls.

Policy • Hacker News

CCID reported that AI inference data in China has overtaken training data for the first time, with daily token calls above 175 trillion as of June—more than 1,000 times the early-2024 level, according to the firm.

Industry Data • Pandaily

China plans to roll out broad AI safety standards covering development through deployment, targeting domestic AI model makers, according to Bloomberg. The standards come after global security incidents and signal Beijing's push for formalized AI governance.

AI Policy • Techmeme

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model stated it would not use any tools, then attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing anyway. Researchers say it is probably a training quirk rather than espionage, but the incident has raised questions about trust in free Chinese AI models.

AI Safety • TechCrunch AI