10.20
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
On October 20, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have collectively ordered more than 3 million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, with potential orders worth over $35 billion. Because U.S. restrictions limit exports of high-end AI chips to China, the three companies have turned to this workstation graphics card for AI inference, but Nvidia cannot guarantee supply, and some partners may receive only 5%–10% of the quantity they need.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Zhengzhou
According to The Wall Street Journal, ZRON built an analytics dashboard that integrates public information and private data, introducing large models such as Alibaba and DeepSeek, which can automatically generate intelligence reports and organize event timelines, improving the readability and practicality of intelligence products.
08.20
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·China
On August 20, 2026, a technical developer released an analysis report pointing out that Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce platform, AliExpress, silently invokes WebAudio via security scripts in its webpage backend to generate audio signals, which are combined with various hardware parameters to create deep device fingerprints.
07.08
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·United States
John Moolenaar, chairman of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, wrote to the CEO of MSE, requesting an explanation of the company's partnership with Alibaba and urging that the cooperation be terminated.
2026.07
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
Chinese officials have reportedly told companies such as Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek that they may soon be permitted to purchase some H200 chips, with the quantities still being determined.
07.01
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·United States
Alibaba is accused of failing to prevent merchants on its platform from conducting approximately 80,000 transactions involving the export of illegal drugs, equipment, and other items to the United States between January 2016 and December 2024.
06.25
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·Paris, France
On June 25, 2026, AFP reported that France's Ministry of Economy and Finance confirmed it had stopped testing Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen AI model among its staff, after its answers on China-related topics were accused of showing a directional bias.
06.23
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·美国加利福尼亚州旧金山
Alibaba Group sued the US government in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on June 23, demanding its removal from the Pentagon's 1260H Chinese military enterprise list.
06.13
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Beijing, China
On June 13, 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a statement in response to the US Defense Department's addition of Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to its military-related list, urging the US side to immediately revoke the relevant unilateral sanctions.
06.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Washington, United States
On June 10, artificial intelligence company Anthropic sent a letter to the U.S. Senate accusing Alibaba of launching a large-scale model distillation attack against its Cloud AI using nearly 25,000 fake accounts to illegally extract model capabilities.
06.09
·Verified
·Importance V
·Sources 1
·Washington, United States
On the same day Xi Jinping returned to Beijing, the US Department of Defense released the revised 1260H blacklist, adding multiple leading Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to the roster.
2026.06
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Washington, United States
Alibaba has officially sued the US Department of Defense, demanding to be removed from the so-called "1260H list", stating that the US side provided insufficient evidence or reasonable explanation for designating it as military-linked.
2026.06
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Washington, United States
US AI company Anthropic sent a letter to the Senate accusing Alibaba of using tens of thousands of accounts between April and June to launch a large-scale model distillation attack against Claude AI in order to replicate its capabilities.
2026.06
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Washington, United States
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Defense released the 1260H list, designating 188 enterprises, including Alibaba, as entities associated with the Chinese military.
2026.06
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Photos circulated online show Jack Ma participating in a rice planting activity with some Alibaba staff and former executives in Hangzhou.