China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports
The post China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief China’s Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models—including unreleased ones—per Reuters. The proposed framework: a tiered system from simple filing for basic tools to domestic-only restrictions on the most sensitive frontier models. If China restricts its own open-weight models, the alternative businesses reached for when the U.S. cut off Anthropic and gated GPT-5.6 in June disappears with them. The U.S. used its AI kill switch in June. China appears to be building one for July. Beijing has spent the past month in quiet talks with its biggest AI companies about restricting who gets to use them, according to Reuters. Chinese authorities held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai about potentially limiting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models—incl