China and North Korea will open the four-lane New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, Xinhua reported, more than a decade after China built its side. A South Korean analyst expects only gradual gains on a route whose existing bridge handles more than 70% of official trade.
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Dario Amodei's pacing framework only slows US labs by as much as their lead over Chinese ones allows. Whether it binds on anyone's capex depends on a decision in Beijing. Beijing has now made it.
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Washington cut its flagship Korea exercise by 55% and killed an amphibious drill, citing Iran force constraints. Trump also cited Seoul's Iran policy. Both cannot be the binding reason.
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Chinese officials dismiss Amodei's proposed AI slowdown as fear-mongering
Anthropic's chief executive asked the industry to slow its most powerful models and said the pause needs China's cooperation. Beijing's foreign ministry called the idea fear-mongering three days before its own standards body warned about recursive self-improvement.
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China builds AI capacity one phase a year in Inner Mongolia's potato capital
In Ulanqab, an electrical engineer told the BBC the data centre site adds one phase every year and is now on its second. The siting logic is cheap land, cool air, and wind and solar capacity already standing in the grasslands.
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Tianmushan moves the TMS-10 into final assembly ahead of an end-2026 supersonic flight
Tianmushan Laboratory says the wind tunnel work and the airframe are finished. The next flight is meant to measure a sonic boom on an aircraft sized for 10 to 15 passengers, well short of the airliner behind state media's 30-minute Beijing to Shanghai figure.
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China's robot data centres are outrunning their buyers
Twenty-two provincial innovation centres opened within 14 months, and Wuhan alone logs 24,000 training entries a day. But Beijing's Shijingshan centre dropped its robot partner over weak data sales, so subsidy is still paying the bill.
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buildConfirmed7 publishers Neither Washington nor Beijing endorsed the proposal behind this month's frontier-lab consensus, which asks for evaluators inside labs, coordinated capability thresholds and international deals and ties how much anyone slows to how far ahead the US already is.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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UBTECH's 10,000-robot year in Liuzhou fits inside a single shift
UBTECH put a capacity number on the record for its new Liuzhou humanoid plant and left out the price, the shipments and the order book, so the cost case rests on its claim about Chinese component supply.
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buildOne report1 publisher Amodei calls for independent auditors of AI models
Altman, Amodei and Musk asked for outside governance of frontier models in the same week Jensen Huang called the risk made up and Beijing called it fearmongering. What an auditor would measure is still an open question.
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Every AI safety control on this week's record was written by a company that sells models
Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president. The controls a product team can actually cite are Anthropic's own plug-pulling, Microsoft AI's new outline and Monday's market selloff.
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Swissquote asks who pays for the leases if the AI race slows down
AI stocks fell worldwide on Sept 14 after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow model progress and Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO. The deepest single-day drops landed on chip equipment and power suppliers.
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King Charles brings the leaders of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to Ayrshire this week to weigh a charter of principles the Ditchley Foundation has drafted for them. The push to slow down came from inside the labs.
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China's security minister names two US model versions in a state cyberspace journal
Chen Yixin's signed article calls Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber a serious risk to China's critical information infrastructure. It cites no incident, and only one of the two is sold to customers at all.
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Beijing aims its export-control script at Anthropic's chief executive
Dario Amodei published a chip-export ask on Saturday. By Monday, China's commerce ministry was answering it in the language it normally reserves for Washington. State media gathered three researchers to make the case.
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China's leading drone-swarm developer counts air-ground-sea coordination among its gaps
A rare self-assessment from CETC's swarm institute grades China's program across five capability areas, and coordination between air, land and sea platforms is one of the places it says the work is unfinished.
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A 17-column plant in Jiangxi turns lithium leftovers into 500 tonnes a year of rubidium and cesium
The demonstration line recovers 98 percent of the cesium and 95 percent of the rubidium from residue that lithium refiners used to discard, which ties two specialty metals to somebody else's lithium throughput rather than to their own demand.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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A closed loop inside the magnet: what United Imaging's MRI brain interface can and cannot do
United Imaging and Tianjin University say uMR Shenguan decodes, modulates and measures in one system. The specifications that would let anyone check that are not in the announcement.
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