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China AI hardware stocks fall as U.S. drafts ban on Chinese data-center components

China's artificial intelligence hardware stocks slumped after news that the Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data centre components, Reuters reported from Shanghai. The CSI300 Telecommunication Services Index tumbled 6% in early trading. Export-depende…

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August 2026 15 events
  1. U.S. weighs polysilicon price floor and tariffs to counter China, Reuters reports
  2. A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture's Historic Run Higher
  3. Trump administration drafting FCC ban on new Chinese data center optical transceivers, Reuters reports
  4. LLM persuasion study finds national-origin labels do not change attitude shift
  5. Alibaba Unveils Its Largest AI Model Yet As China Closes The Gap
  6. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
  7. China's semiconductor sector attracts billions in industrial investment funds
  8. China's CXMT Eyes Second Beijing Fab To Fight Memory Shortage
  9. CXMT considers second Beijing memory-chip plant and local financing talks, sources say
  10. Discarded SpaceX upper stage set for unintended moon impact near Einstein Crater
  11. Americans Can't Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
  12. Chang'e-6 far-side melt rocks favor long decline in early Solar System impacts
Show 3 earlier events
  1. Aircraft studies find high supersaturation that could let aerosols invigorate tropical storms
  2. Gene therapy trial characterised by hype and hubris ends in a child's death
  3. Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here's every company it's using to do it
July 2026 83 events
  1. South Korea July exports rise 62.8% as chips and computers ride AI demand
  2. Moonshot has Alibaba deal for about 20,000 Nvidia chips, Bloomberg says
  3. E-commerce platform Chynabazar launched: Direct access from manufacturers to consumers with experience stores
  4. The $800,000 Secret: A Child's Death in a Gene-Editing Trial and the Unraveling Cover-Up
  5. Faraday Future Believes That the FCC's New Policy on Robotics Strengthens the Company's Position to Accelerate Robotics Ecosystem Deployment; Launches Global Value-Chain ...
  6. TSMC works on new advanced chip packaging similar to Intel: report
  7. Peec AI Adds Mistral Coverage, Now Tracking 10+ LLMs Across the US, China, and Europe
  8. If you planned to buy a Chinese robot in the US, we've got bad news
  9. AI chip and data center cargo is redrawing Asia air freight as e-commerce slows
  10. Peking University team reports sub-10 ms memristor chip for neural dynamics
  11. FCC bans new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters over AI supply-chain risk
  12. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets Commerce Secretary Lutnick amid China chip probe
Show 71 earlier events
  1. China completes world's largest fusion magnet, moves closer to artificial Sun
  2. The FCC's Next Target: Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots and Power Inverters
  3. Anthropic publishes official position on open-weights models
  4. Experts react to FCC limits on U.S. imports of new humanoid and mobile robots
  5. China begins mass production of domestic immersion DUV lithography tools, source says
  6. Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in Super Micro AI server export probe
  7. HiDream.ai closes RMB 1.5 billion Series C for omni-modal world models
  8. Samsung and SK Hynix shares slide as AI chip rally faces financing and China fears
  9. AI platform ContactSeek cuts gene-editor off-target edits in Nature study
  10. China accuses US of AI hegemonism and threatens countermeasures over model-theft probes
  11. Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
  12. CXMT shares surge 470% in Shanghai debut after Asia's biggest IPO this year
  13. Fermi data confirm gamma-ray pulsations from extreme millisecond pulsar PSR J0435+3233
  14. Chinese university investigating girl's death in gene-editing trial
  15. DeepSeek pauses second fundraising round after online reports of founder comments, Bloomberg says
  16. China fines Trip.com 5.2 billion yuan over online hotel-booking monopoly
  17. Patient death in China gene-editing trial draws fire: Journal
  18. Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial kept secret: report
  19. BIS Nominee: Export Controls Must Weigh Both National Security, Economics
  20. China unveils humanoid robots with dual-battery hot swap for nonstop factory operations
  21. Fatal gene-editing trial in China raises ethics and oversight questions
  22. Hiroshima-led team confirms galactic proton PeVatron LHAASO J1912+1014u
  23. China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
  24. AI shortens drug discovery to around 1 year in China: Insilico CEO
  25. DOGE alumni launch Cathedral military cyber startup at $1.4 billion valuation, Reuters says
  26. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushes back on U.S. moves against Chinese open-source AI
  27. China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips
  28. US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
  29. Samsung Is Building A New Robotics Business. The Company Sees Physical AI As Its Next Frontier.
  30. Samsung Creates New Robotics Division to Speed Up AI and Humanoid Robot Development
  31. IEEE Spectrum: soft exoskeleton uses artificial muscles without motors to assist walking
  32. Study Finds RNA Can Form Complex Structures Like Filaments and Cages, Challenging Origin-of-Life Assumptions
  33. Chinese humanoid robot achieves a global breakthrough
  34. Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album
  35. European investigation details China-Russia military cooperation targeting Starlink
  36. United States Eases UAE Export Controls for Advanced AI Chips
  37. Global Companies Are Facing a Patchwork of AI Rules
  38. China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
  39. OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
  40. Moonshot's Kimi K3 To Be Largest Open Model With 2.8 Trillion Parameters, Has 1M Context Window
  41. US says small amount of Nvidia H200 chips sold to China via licence
  42. CXMT releases IPO prospectus as China accelerates tech sector listings
  43. Apple Intelligence approved by Chinese regulators after two-year delay; server-side enable possible, separate from Siri AI
  44. DeepSeek's new AI model does not wow markets in fast-changing industry
  45. Because of export restrictions, Nvidia has repeatedly warned investors that revenue from China would likely remain limited.
  46. Eastern Chinese coastal diet linked to 22% lower cardiovascular risk in 8,900-person cohort study
  47. PixVerse tops a $2 billion valuation after extending its Series C to $439 million
  48. Nvidia cuts number of Asian customers in half due to export controls
  49. DeepSeek is preparing for IPO filing as soon as this year
  50. U.S.-China Tech Tensions Rise Over Nvidia AI Chip Exports
  51. Elizabeth Warren Calls UAE Chip Export Rule 'Corrupt' Over Crypto Ties
  52. BIS Export Control Enforcement Has Improved but Still Falls Short, Kessler Says
  53. Expanding Export Control to 'Remote Access' May Backfire on US AI Ambitions
  54. China works on AI safety benchmark as regulators target large model risks
  55. Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
  56. Waymo launching robotaxi service in Denver. But only for its own workers.
  57. China achieves major breakthrough in fusion energy with record-breaking superconducting magnets
  58. AI² Robotics raises $735M at $3B valuation for wheeled humanoid robots
  59. Alibaba bans Anthropic AI tools for employees after distillation concerns
  60. Ondas Inc. Acquires DZYNE Technologies in $875.8M Defense Tech Deal
  61. Commerce Department faces criticism from China hardliners over AI chip export controls handling
  62. China issues 'backdoor' security alert over Anthropic's Claude Code
  63. China plans limited Nvidia H200 purchases for top AI firms
  64. Chinese Firms Leave Nvidia for Local AI Suppliers, Survey Shows
  65. Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
  66. China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip
  67. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.2 Chinese AI Model Catching Up to US Labs
  68. China's Tianwen-2 Probe Close Enough to Start Tests on Asteroid 1 Billion km Away
  69. Singapore files new charges in Nvidia chip fraud case
  70. Over 20 semiconductor companies (TI, Infineon, ST, ADI) implement second-round price hikes effective July 1, power chips up 15-25%, AI server components up 85%
  71. UBTech Launches UWORLD U1 Series of Full-Size Humanoid Robots Designed for Mass Production
June 2026 9 events
  1. Nvidia's AI chip sales stall in China as domestic chipmakers led by Huawei overtake global leader in home market
  2. US tightens export controls to curb China's access to advanced chips and AI tools
  3. US proposes AI partnership with EU on regulation and semiconductor supply chains
  4. Mercedes and GIC back Momenta autonomous driving IPO as cornerstone investors
  5. Anthropic publicly accuses Alibaba of largest known illicit Claude distillation campaign (28.8M+ queries)
  6. X Accelerates NEO Humanoid Developer Access in Response to Geopolitics
  7. World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off
  8. OpenAI says China-linked accounts posed as Americans to oppose US data centres
  9. Chinese group TA4922 deploys Atlas RAT in European cyberattacks
May 2026 11 events
  1. Waymo's newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders
  2. Sberbank seeks Chinese chips for GigaChat AI model under sanctions pressure
  3. NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2027
  4. ESA Smile spacecraft lifts off on Vega-C for solar wind mission
  5. Governor Newsom announces California's new $1 billion rebate program for electric trucks, as Trump cedes global clean vehicle market to China
  6. Chinese Grey Market Resells Claude API at 90% Discount via Proxy Networks
  7. Porsche Shuts Three Subsidiaries, Cutting More Than 500 Jobs
  8. DAEMON Tools devs confirm breach, release malware-free version
  9. Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in widespread attack
  10. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company's monopoly: no one is coming for us
  11. FCC Votes to Strip All Chinese Labs of Electronics Certification Authority
April 2026 91 events
  1. Elon Musk testifies xAI 'partly' used OpenAI models to train its own
  2. FCC votes on proposal that would ban 21% of accredited test labs in China and Hong Kong
  3. SenseTime releases open-source image model that runs on Chinese chips
  4. Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech earns Microsoft WHQL certification
  5. China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu fleet chaos
  6. Ecovacs cuts robot vacuum prices by up to $450 as tariffs stabilize
  7. China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
  8. China mandates minimum wage and algorithm transparency for 200 million gig workers
  9. EU sanctions Chinese firms over Russia ties; Beijing retaliates with export controls on European defence companies
  10. DARPA seeks fast, cheap autonomous underwater drones in Deep Thoughts program
  11. NASA OIG Details Chinese National's Years-Long Spear-Phishing Scheme for Defense Software
  12. Apple CEO transition to John Ternus signals hardware-focused future
Show 79 earlier events
  1. China warns US chip export legislation would severely disrupt global semiconductor supply chains
  2. AMD EXPO 1.2 Arrives on AM5 Motherboards With Support for Faster Memory
  3. Firestarter Malware Persists on Cisco Firewalls Despite Updates and Patches
  4. Researchers find 26 fake crypto wallet apps on Apple App Store stealing seed phrases
  5. Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants found for sale on Alibaba
  6. DeepSeek previews V4 AI model, claims parity with top US systems
  7. Global edtech funding collapses from $16.7B to under $3B as investors pivot to AI
  8. DeepSeek releases V4 Pro and V4 Flash preview models at fraction of frontier prices
  9. White House Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation
  10. US accuses China of industrial-scale AI theft
  11. Iran Alleges US Exploited Networking Equipment Backdoors During Military Strikes
  12. Tencent Launches International Beta for QClaw AI Agent
  13. OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with improved text rendering and non-Latin script support
  14. Nvidia supplier Victory Giant surges 57% in Hong Kong trading debut
  15. Humanoid robot beats human half-marathon record by seven minutes in China
  16. Honor's 'Lightning' humanoid robot smashes half-marathon world record
  17. Oppo reveals Find X9 Ultra specs with dual 200MP cameras, 7,050 mAh battery
  18. Honor's autonomous robot wins Beijing humanoid half-marathon in 50 minutes, beating human world record
  19. Russian-made Shahed drones reportedly disintegrating mid-air due to manufacturing defects
  20. Bambu Lab overtakes Creality as top-selling budget 3D printer brand in 2025
  21. Cursor in talks to raise $2 billion at $50 billion valuation
  22. Anthropic CEO meets White House officials amid cybersecurity model rollout
  23. Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples to Record $21.4 Billion in 2026
  24. Japan extracts rare earth elements from 6,000-meter deep Pacific deposit
  25. Nvidia alum's Manycore Tech soars 187% in Hong Kong debut with robotics pivot
  26. AI coding startup Factory hits $1.5B valuation with $150M funding round
  27. Chinese chip equipment makers post record revenues amid import restrictions
  28. Amazon launches smart warehouse in Shenzhen to cut merchant storage costs by up to 45%
  29. Critical Nginx UI vulnerability actively exploited for server takeover
  30. China Mandates AI Integration for Classroom Lessons and Homework Grading
  31. Claude Code Dominates HumanX Discussions as Industry Tracks China's Open-Weight Lead
  32. CPUID Website Compromised to Distribute STX RAT Malware via Hardware Tools
  33. Alleged Supercomputer Hack Could Be Largest Data Breach in Chinese History
  34. Top AI Researchers Return From US to China Citing Pay, Quality of Life, Immigration Barriers
  35. Survey: 84% of Europeans Distrust US Tech Companies With Personal Data
  36. Alibaba reorganizes AI leadership amid strategic pivot to monetization
  37. China AI Firm Discloses $92 Million in Banned Nvidia Chip Servers to Beijing
  38. Alibaba's Stealth Video AI Model Tops Global Benchmarks
  39. Alibaba Leads $293 Million Investment in AI Video Startup ShengShu
  40. Report: Chinese Supercomputing Center Suffers 10 Petabyte Data Breach
  41. Radify Metals raises funding to develop pollution-free metal processing
  42. FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers Over Cybersecurity Concerns
  43. White House advances industry-friendly AI policy agenda under David Sacks
  44. UAE's G42 presses forward with OpenAI data center expansion despite regional conflict
  45. Hacker Claims 10-Petabyte Data Theft From China Supercomputer Center
  46. Hacker Claims Theft of 10PB+ Data From China's National Supercomputing Center
  47. Bain's Bridge Data Centres Removes Client From Malaysia Hub After US Export Probe
  48. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
  49. Super Micro Launches Independent Probe Into Export Control Violations
  50. Super Micro Launches Internal Probe of Server Sales to China
  51. U.S. weighs new export restrictions on ASML chip equipment to China
  52. China-Linked Storm-1175 Exploits Zero-Days to Deploy Medusa Ransomware
  53. North Korean hackers compromised top developer to hijack widely used open source project
  54. US Lawmakers Propose Blocking DUV Chip Equipment Exports to Chinese Semiconductor Firms
  55. Microsoft links China-based Storm-1175 to Medusa ransomware zero-day attacks
  56. Meta to release first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang
  57. US lawmakers propose blocking DUV chip equipment exports to Chinese military-linked firms
  58. Chinese robot maker UBTech offers $18 million salary for chief scientist in talent competition
  59. China expands AI integration in K-12 education to address teacher shortages, equity gaps
  60. Generalist releases GEN-1 AI model enabling human-level robot dexterity
  61. Chinese robotics startup Galaxea AI raises $290M at $29 billion valuation
  62. Tesla's Texas Gigafactory Workforce Shrank 22% in 2025 Amid Second Straight Year of Declining Sales
  63. Trump's AI Data Center Push Is Failing in Part Because His Own Tariffs Block the Parts Needed to Build Them
  64. Trump's Partisan AI Pitch Stalls in Congress as Democrats Pull Back from National Framework
  65. Senate Bill Would Ban US Exports of DUV Chipmaking Equipment to China Under MATCH Act
  66. Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled as Power and Parts Shortages Bite
  67. Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
  68. Supermicro Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Smuggling Billions in Nvidia Servers to Restricted Parties
  69. India's Sarvam AI Raises New Funding at $1.5 Billion Valuation
  70. Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-Billion Parameter Open Source Reasoning Model
  71. Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
  72. FBI Labels Suspected Chinese Hack of Law Enforcement Data 'a Major Cyber Incident'
  73. US Electrical Equipment Shortage Threatens AI Data Center Buildout as Imports Stall
  74. India's Sarvam AI Raising $300. 350 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Challenge US and Chinese AI Leaders
  75. ByteDance Helps OpenClaw Launch Official China Mirror, Raising Geopolitical Alarm
  76. Geely Chairman Says Global Auto Industry Has Too Many Factories, Pivots to Asset-Sharing Model
  77. China's Intelligence Agency Warns That Smartwatches and Fitness Trackers Pose Serious Data Leak Risks
  78. Chinese Optics Firm Innolight Confidentially Files for Up to $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO
  79. Alibaba Releases Third Proprietary AI Model in Three Days, Sharpening Focus on Profit
March 2026 41 events
  1. OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Raises $3 Billion From Retail Investors
  2. Waymo Launches Robotaxi Service at San Antonio International Airport
  3. CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler Flaw by Thursday
  4. Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
  5. Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM release by Alibaba
  6. O'Melveny Represents Leading Medical Imaging AI Company Diagens Biotechnology in US$101 Million Hong Kong IPO
  7. Fusion's DeepSeek Moment?
  8. H.R. 3447 Chip Security Act endorsements announced
  9. Alibaba DAMO Academy Claims 'World's Highest Performing RISC-V CPU' With New XuanTie C950
  10. Senators Warren and Banks Call for Suspension of Nvidia Export Licenses to China and Southeast Asia
  11. Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
  12. Cursor Admits New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Chinese AI Kimi K2.5
Show 29 earlier events
  1. State Department Creates Bureau of Emerging Threats to Counter AI and Cyber Risks
  2. FCC Bans Imports of All Foreign-Made Consumer Routers Over Cybersecurity Risk
  3. Sony nearing $1 billion deal to sell 51% of its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL
  4. TP-Link CEO applied for Trump Gold Card visa while company faces US national security probe over China ties
  5. US charges Super Micro co-founder with smuggling billions in Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85%
  6. Alibaba and Tencent Lose Combined $66 Billion in Market Value as Investors Punish Unclear AI Monetization
  7. Tencent Launches ClawBot AI Agent in WeChat, Giving 1 Billion Users Access via Chat
  8. Xiaomi Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model That Benchmarks Close to GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6
  9. China approves first brain chips for commercial sale, plans to dominate BCI
  10. Cursor Admits New Coding Model Built on Chinese Moonshot AI's Kimi
  11. House Homeland Security publishes ICYMI on PRC AI/robotics national security risks
  12. Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China
  13. Flexiv secures strategic investment from Invus to scale adaptive robots
  14. Rep. Fong Delivers Opening Statement in Hearing on Threats Posed by PRC Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Technologies
  15. Senator Warren presses Pentagon over xAI classified network access
  16. JD.com launches Joybuy in six European countries to challenge Amazon
  17. House Subcommittee Announces Hearing on PRC AI, Robotics and Autonomous Tech Risks
  18. China intensifies push to become world leader in tech and AI
  19. China's New Five-Year Plan Prioritizes Robotics...
  20. Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production and shifts TSMC capacity
  21. A "diff" tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models
  22. Reported Draft Rules Signal New Semiconductor Export Controls Framework
  23. China Restricts OpenClaw AI at Banks, State Agencies Over Security Concerns
  24. China bakes AI into its next five-year economic blueprint
  25. Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. profile and Origin Pilot release details
  26. Chinese tech giants move into 'next-generation AI agents' deployment
  27. China's New Five-Year Plan Specifically Targets Quantum Leadership and AI Expansion
  28. Rice gene discovery to reduce fertilizer needs
  29. Science funding call provides insight into China's AI priorities
February 2026 7 events
  1. Chasing the Chip Smugglers
  2. Hollywood objects to ByteDance Seedance 2.0 AI video generator over IP
  3. SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers
  4. Justice Department Files Action to Enforce Presidential Order on Chinese Company's Divestment from Jupiter Systems
  5. FTC issues second report to Congress on ransomware and cyberattacks
  6. February 3, 2026 - EX-99.1 - 8-K: Current report (AMD Q4/full year 2025 results)
  7. Notepad++ confirms Chinese government hackers hijacked software updates for months
January 2026 3 events
  1. Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
  2. OpenAI aims to ship first hardware device in 2026 possibly as earbuds
  3. China Blocks Nvidia's AI Chips Despite U.S. Export Loophole