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The FCC, under the Trump administration, is poised to ban imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters, aiming to shield the U.S. AI supply chain from security threats and spur domestic reindustrialization, framing the move as economic security and national security.
Chinese open-source/open-weight AI models from DeepSeek, Z.ai, and others are narrowing the performance gap with leading U.S. rivals while offering dramatically lower costs, prompting U.S. firms to route more tokens via platforms like OpenRouter and shift workloads away from OpenAI/Anthropic. Lindy moved 100% of Claude traffic to DeepSeek, and GLM 5.2 has seen rapid adoption, highlighting a trend where cheaper Chinese models are becoming viable for many workloads—often 60%–90% cheaper—even as frontier performance remains a few months behind the top U.S. systems, a dynamic occurring amid tighter U.S. AI regulation.
Shanghai Biren Technology's shares more than doubled on their Hong Kong debut, raising HK$5.58 billion, amid a wave of AI and chip offerings in China driven by government support and efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. technology exports.
Alibaba is developing a new AI chip focused on inferencing, with plans to invest over $53 billion in AI over the next three years, as part of China's broader effort to develop domestic semiconductor technology amid geopolitical tensions.
The US plans to expand sanctions on China's tech sector by implementing new regulations targeting subsidiaries of sanctioned companies, aiming to prevent circumvention of existing restrictions and intensify economic pressure amid ongoing tensions over technology and trade.