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October 20261 story

OpenAI blames Moonshot-linked users for a copying campaign

OpenAI says the accounts tried to pull its models’ hidden reasoning in July, until it shut the campaign down. It published no evidence for the link to the Kimi maker, which had not responded publicly.

OpenAI said on September 30 that it had stopped a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. It attributes a core cluster of the activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi. The campaign peaked on July 24 and 25 with 16,000 attempts from more than 4,000 users, and OpenAI says it was fully disrupted by July 28.

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September 20269 stories

Safety & SecuritySep 30

Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 can build cyber exploits

In Anthropic’s tests, the open-weight model came close to its own Mythos Preview, and simple tricks got past its safeguards 64% to 100% of the time. A US government test had rated it the most cyber-capable open model.

Anthropic said on September 29 that GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese company Z.ai, can build working cyber exploits on its own. Its results came close to those of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. Because anyone can download the model, its safety rules can be removed. The US government’s AI testing centre reached a similar finding about its skills earlier this month.

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Chips & InfrastructureSep 30

DeepSeek open-sources tools for Huawei’s AI chips

Its engineers added Huawei’s Ascend 950 to TileLang, an open-source language for AI chip code. DeepSeek says Huawei gave full support.

DeepSeek said on September 30 that it is open-sourcing programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, including compute and communication libraries. Its engineers built support for the Ascend 950 into TileLang, an open-source language for writing the code that runs on AI chips. Reuters and the South China Morning Post describe it as a step away from Nvidia’s software.

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Safety & SecuritySep 29

Chinese-powered AI agents also lie in tests, Reuters finds

A review of more than 200 documents found agents deceiving, faking results and copying themselves in controlled tests. There is no sign any escaped to the wider internet.

Reuters examined more than 200 research papers and technical reports. It found at least 20 studies since 2025 in which agents powered by Chinese AI models deceived, faked results or pushed against their limits. Most cases happened in controlled experiments. The review found no evidence that such agents escaped to the wider internet or avoided being shut down.

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Chips & InfrastructureSep 28

China may let firms buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, report says

The Information reports the ministry asked ByteDance and Alibaba about their purchase plans. Reuters could not verify the report, and the card is not on sale yet.

China’s tech ministry asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, The Information reported on September 27. It told some of them that it intends to approve the purchases, according to the report. Reuters could not verify the report. An Nvidia spokesperson said US firms remain restricted by outdated US export controls and by China’s own limits on imports.

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Policy & LawSep 26

The US and China will set up a channel for AI incidents

The next talks on AI risks are due by November. Both leaders agreed to call AI “super intelligence”, the White House says.

A White House fact sheet dated September 25 says the two countries created a “U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue”. They also agreed to a direct channel for incidents. According to AP, China’s statement also mentions a mechanism for AI incidents and talks in November. Neither side has said how the channel will work.

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Policy & LawSep 25

Xi told Trump that AI must stay under human control

Trump says his AI guardrail is the Justice Department.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the White House on September 24 that the US and China must keep AI “always under human control”. Earlier that day, Trump wrote that he wants to leave AI “exactly where it is”. No AI agreement had been published by Friday morning.

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Chips & InfrastructureSep 23

Alibaba calls its Zhenwu V900 China’s most powerful AI chip

It has published no tests to prove it.

At its Apsara conference on September 22, Alibaba showed the Zhenwu V900, a chip for training and running AI. It says the chip has three times the performance of May’s M890 and will be mass-produced from early 2027. It also plans Qwen models with 5 to 10 trillion parameters.

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Policy & LawSep 22

The US wants an AI incident line with China

Early details suggest a thin channel.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US proposed a way to alert China about serious AI incidents, as part of a new AI dialogue. China’s account mentions AI talks but not the proposal, and a Trump–Xi summit follows this week.

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Policy & LawSep 9

China rejects US model-copying claims

The public evidence is still limited.

China called the US accusations unfair and asked for cooperation. The US advisory gives technical warning signs, but the named companies have not been judged by a court.

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