SCMP Artificial Intelligence
19 Sep 2026
Taiwanese Labour Minister Hung Sun-han is expected to travel to Nanjing and attend an APEC ministerial meeting on employment, vocational training, social security and AI’s impact on jobs. He would be the highest-level Taiwan cabinet official to visit mainland China under President William Lai’s administration.
SCMP Artificial Intelligence
14 Sep 2026
China’s state security minister Chen Yixin warned that artificial intelligence poses rising national security risks and called for robust risk-prevention frameworks. The remarks came as Beijing promotes a bigger role in global AI governance while criticising US restrictions, and after Xi Jinping proposed an AI initiative at the BRICS summit.
TechCrunch AI
11 Sep 2026
Anthropic released a report alleging persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, naming Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek. The company says these campaigns have intensified in recent months amid growing competition.
IEEE Spectrum
11 Sep 2026
Franklin Kuo, a co-developer of ALOHAnet and an inspiration for Ethernet, died at 91; he helped pioneer random-access protocols and later assisted China’s early Internet efforts. IEEE obituaries also note Muhammad Rezaul Karim, Harry Bostic, Edwin Jones Jr., Alexander Spitzer, and Donald Dietmeyer, each recognized for contributions to telecommunications, education, neurology, and circuit design.
SCMP Artificial Intelligence
08 Sep 2026
The Supreme People’s Court published a 24-article opinion guiding judges on civil disputes involving AI, addressing deepfakes, voice cloning, hallucinations and personal-rights violations. The guidance expands China’s legal framework for AI in the absence of a dedicated national AI law, according to SCMP.
Data Center Dynamics
08 Sep 2026
Data Center Dynamics reports that Firmus will provide compute capacity to OpenAI in Malaysia. The article notes this development as OpenAI’s Stargate efforts in South Korea face delays.
SCMP Artificial Intelligence
06 Sep 2026
A recent study advised China to study Ukraine’s wartime public-relations approach as states adapt messaging to advanced technologies. The research warned that technical superiority alone is insufficient without integrating information strategy with military operations to influence domestic and international audiences.
Fintech News Malaysia AI
02 Sep 2026
Alibaba is supplying two AI tools to Malaysia’s AI untuk Rakyat programme, which targets 100,000 youths aged 18–30 and is run by the Ministry of Digital with MyDIGITAL Corporation. The programme offers participants who complete required learning modules a redeemable three‑month benefit, according to Fintech News Malaysia.
