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2026-11-08
On November 8, MeT, who first posted the content, responded that he had not clarified the activation conditions for the screen recording at the time, and reiterated that it was Xiaomi's system security component that performed the recording.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-07
On November 7, Bilibili creators epcdiy and Bian Liang released videos claiming that after Xiaomi's "AI Call Warning" is enabled and authorized, the phone will record about 3 seconds of screen footage during WeChat and QQ video calls, encrypt and upload it to the cloud to determine if it involves fraud, and continue recording after about 2 seconds if no risk is detected; this feature is disabled by default.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
A report released by Bloomberg Economics on November 6 stated that if the Democratic Party slows down AI investment and data center construction after a major victory in the U.S. midterm elections, China's growth, which relies on AI hardware exports, will be hit. Net exports contributed nearly 40% of China's economic growth in the third quarter, and chips and computer products accounted for 40% of the year-on-year increase in exports in the first nine months.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-05
Multiple netizens tested and found that ByteDance's AI, Doubao, can repeat negative reviews of other brands but refuses to repeat 'Huawei is not good to use,' claiming that Huawei products are recognized by users. This has sparked mockery and questioning among netizens regarding the AI's stance and censorship system.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
On November 4, the Chinese version of Apple Intelligence was released to users with the iOS 18.2 developer beta, with its AI features powered by Chinese models such as Qwen.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
Screenshots submitted by netizens show that when using the iPhone's cleanup tool to process photos of Xi Jinping or meme images of Mao Zedong, the system prompts: 'According to relevant laws and regulations, this image cannot be processed.' When asked what happened on June 4, 1989, Qwen replied: 'Let's change the subject.'
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen posted a video demonstrating that when using a certain domestic Android phone to dial the 120 emergency number, the screen failed to enter the call interface. Instead, it popped up 'shake-to-open' ads for Douyin Lite, Meituan, JD.com, etc. The slightest movement caused automatic redirection, making it difficult to close.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-31
On October 31, Nanfengchuang reported that 36-year-old Chen Cheng (pseudonym), a Fujian native who obtained U.S. citizenship, works as a container truck driver in the New York-New Jersey port area while simultaneously partnering in a company in Guangdong and paying social security, stating it is a backup plan for himself, which has sparked ridicule among netizens.
Location: Guangdong · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-30
On October 30, 2026, X user Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher reposted a friend's test results of the WeChat translation feature, pointing out that its output hides biases and treats users like fools, while calling on netizens to test it themselves.

[Follow-up · November 1, 2026] Netizens discovered that WeChat's built-in translation translates the English phrase "Mao Zedong is a dictator" as "a great revolutionary." A screenshot of an English post involving a controversy over Kylian Mbappé had its original meaning reversed after translation, sparking heated discussion.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-28
According to an exclusive Reuters report on October 28, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest DRAM manufacturer, plans to start limited production of HBM3E high-bandwidth memory chips within the next two months. The yield is only about 20%-30%, far lower than the approximately 70% level of SK Hynix, reflecting the shortage dilemma in China's AI chip industry. Huawei, Cambricon, and others have already raised prices by 20% to 50% due to rising storage costs.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-28
On October 28, The Information reported that the latest models from DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are suspected of using output from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra for distillation training. In September, OpenAI traced distillation activities that began in July to individuals associated with Moonshot AI. Anthropic stated that it has reduced the data acquisition for distillation attacks against Claude by approximately 90% to 99%.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-27
On October 27, Weibo users reported that when they asked what "inappropriate remarks" Mbappé had made, multiple Chinese AI apps, including Doubao, DeepSeek, and Xiaowei AI, all refused to answer.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen in Jiangsu went to Xuzhou Second Hospital for treatment and found that the doctor directly used the AI app "Doubao" to prescribe medication for patients, sparking heated discussion among netizens in the comments section about AI misdiagnosis and reliability issues.
Location: Xuzhou, Jiangsu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
On October 25, in Hengyang, Hunan, a Xiaomi SU7 was suspected of hitting a road protrusion, damaging its battery pack and bursting into fierce flames. Firefighters were dispatched to put out the fire, and no official accident report has been released yet.
Location: Hengyang, Hunan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
During the Shanghai GEEKCON contest, DJI reported the event to police on the grounds of illegal hacking instruction, resulting in participants and judges being taken away, and the event was suspended for a time.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
On October 24, a Wenjie M7 caught fire on Shiyan Avenue in Hubei. Netizens commented that Wenjie vehicles have been catching fire frequently recently, with three burning in just one week.
Location: Shiyan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
A user on X revealed that after refusing to cooperate and criticizing a certain creator for spreading propaganda content, Kimi AI again sent a private message asking them to delete their comment; the user refused and expressed anger.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
On October 24, X blogger Elshayib posted what he said were promotional documents from Kimi (Moonshot AI), requiring bloggers promoting K3.1 Pro to submit drafts for review first, not to label paid partnerships, and providing talking points such as the AI gap between China and the US having narrowed to one month. He refused to participate and struck back by posting screenshots of private messages.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-23
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang urged people to maintain responsible optimism about the development of artificial intelligence at a conference in Berlin on Thursday, and criticized claims that it will end human civilization.
Location: Berlin · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-23
Before Lei Jun publicly emphasized vehicle safety, a large number of Xiaomi car owners reported suspected faults in the vehicles' intelligent brake boosters, with problems such as brake pedals that could not be pressed down.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-23
On October 23, netizens photographed the traffic signal pole previously struck by a Huawei AITO M9, which is now surrounded by barriers; the related comment section appears to have been cleaned up, with only 5 sarcastic comments left.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-23
In 2025, a Bilibili user commented that they would rather die for Huawei and for their country inside a Huawei AITO car; on October 23, 2026, the account posted a listing to sell a 2025 AITO M9, stressing that it had no accidents and no fire damage, and after being teased by netizens, changed its name and deleted the post.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
On October 22, Zhejiang Radio and Television reported that Wang Yiqing, a sophomore at Zhejiang University of Technology, taught himself to build an AI video platform, which now has 20,000 users and more than 600,000 yuan in membership top-ups over two months. Because model names such as Seedance, MiniMax, and Sora2 appeared in the demo menu, netizens questioned whether he was running a "relay station" that resells ready-made AI services, joking, "That's seriously criminal."
Location: Hangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, Microsoft released a report stating that Storm-0940, a hacking group linked to the Chinese government, has been using the AI tool ARTEX since September to breach Microsoft 365 systems with credentials from the cloud backup application of U.S. IT service provider ConnectWise, attacking hundreds of government, military, semiconductor, and think tank organizations worldwide. In some attacks, high-level cloud privileges were obtained in under three hours. ConnectWise has acknowledged the security incident and is restoring services in phases.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douban user posted that AI-driven layoffs are becoming increasingly common: apart from "Ningxia News Broadcast," the anchors at Ningxia TV have been replaced by AI; after Lao Gan Ma introduced AI pepper selection, the pepper-sorting positions were cut from more than 600 people to 48; the post also listed large-scale layoffs at multiple overseas tech companies including Coinbase, PayPal, and Meta.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
Tsinghua University professor Nie Huihua previously proposed taxing robots and AI, on the grounds that companies hiring real people must pay wages and social security contributions, while switching to robots can save on labor costs; this view has recently drawn renewed attention.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, Thomas Jamaluddin, a researcher at Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency, confirmed that the debris that fell in Kalimantan was from China's LandSpace Zhuque-2E rocket, adding that physical inspection is still needed for final confirmation.
Location: Indonesia · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, said at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that without safety, all intelligence, performance, design and innovation lose their meaning; multiple media outlets including Chang'an Jie Zhishi and The Beijing News republished his press release.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-20
On October 20, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology acknowledged that some automakers engage in bandwagon product launches and have problems such as insufficient testing and verification, and said it will resolutely prevent unreasonable innovation designs from entering the market.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-10-20
On October 20, a blogger tested the AI erase feature on a Huawei phone. The Japanese flag could be erased normally, but when erasing the Chinese flag, the system popped up a message saying "This image is not applicable to the erase function, please change the image and try again." Netizens in the comments section joked that the software has a political stance.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated on October 19, 2026 Beijing time that a Yandex center inside Russia had been bombed. Netanyahu claimed that the incident reduced cyber activity originating from Russia and targeting Israel by 60%.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
According to court documents, former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of secretly installing hidden recording devices in the company's senior-level meeting rooms in order to steal sensitive discussions about the company's advanced artificial intelligence technology. The investigation also revealed that he maintained frequent contact with members of the Saudi royal family.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
In a Douyin factory operation video circulating on October 19, a worker repeatedly reaches both hands into the stamping die area to place and remove metal workpieces, and the equipment presses down right after the hands are withdrawn, with the caption "Isn't full manual automation impressive?" Netizens sarcastically pointed out the safety hazard.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
US AI company Anthropic announced that it will put 5% of its shares into a public welfare fund, to be used for the public interest and to address the impact of AI on the labor market.
Location: United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
According to a report by Clash Report, Chinese-made rental vehicles used by the Norwegian military during missions were found to have recorded sensitive military operational information. Built-in cameras in these vehicles captured and stored sensitive data such as troop movements, military locations, and security access codes without the soldiers' knowledge. Despite these severe security vulnerabilities, the Norwegian military continued to use these vehicles.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
On October 18, 2026, former U.S. President Trump publicly stated that the United States must take the lead in artificial intelligence and advocated strengthening export controls to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from obtaining advanced AI chips. Trump believes that unrestricted access to U.S. AI technology would accelerate the improvement of China's military capabilities and pose security risks.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
On the afternoon of October 18, debris from the Chinese LandSpace Zhuque-2E carrier rocket re-entered the atmosphere and crashed into an oil palm plantation in Sampit, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Local residents heard a loud roar, and there were no casualties.
Location: Indonesia · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert on October 16, urging election officials to guard against phishing attacks launched by a superintelligence.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
On October 16, Xinhua News Agency released a popular-science poster on railway train schedule adjustments labeled "Xinhua Authoritative Quick Look." Detection screenshots show it was generated by an OpenAI tool, credited to Fan Xi and produced by the Domestic Department, and no AI-generated notice appeared on the page.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
According to Politiken, a hacker claimed to have successfully breached Denmark's national population registration system through a vulnerability in an IT company's systems. The hacker gained access using the weak password "123456" set on the company's accounts (including an administrator account). The data breach involved the personal information of 8.8 million people.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
According to a report by Sound of Hope, on October 15, 2026, a netizen posted a video showing a Xiaomi car losing control while driving, crashing through three or four roadside trees one after another, with the scene being quite gruesome. The specific cause of the accident and any casualties remain to be further verified.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, Chinese media outlet Gangu Rongmei posted a video titled "Coffee Robot Goes Live," showing a robot creating latte art. Taiwanese netizens compared the footage and found that it appeared to be a stolen original work by a Taiwanese latte artist that had been altered with AI, with obvious suspicious details such as no reflection on the metal on the robot's chest. The Taiwanese latte artist has come forward to accuse the outlet of unauthorized theft and alteration of her work.
Location: Gangu County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
On October 14, 2026, Beijing time, a netizen posted on X that they had been threatened via WeChat by hackers suspected of having North Korean ties after commenting on North Korea on social media. According to the individual, the hackers not only used WeChat to precisely identify their personal identity but also sent screenshots of their comments on X, warning them to stop posting remarks unfavorable to North Korea or face punishment. This incident has sparked concerns regarding the personal privacy of overseas social media users and transnational cyber surveillance.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Coolapk editor posted that they had received an email from the HarmonyOS app store requiring missing features such as live streaming, Shenquan coupons, and Weibo and Douyin login to be added, and the splash screen crash to be fixed, with rectification to be completed within 30 days or chart recommendations would be affected; during a phone conversation the other side asked back, "When do you plan to shut down these Android features that HarmonyOS doesn't have?"
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
According to an interview with China Science Daily, Gao Shiqiang, the student who received the Nobel Prize call, is currently the head of an optogenetics research group at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and has co-published multiple papers with his award-winning supervisor Nagel.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-13
On October 13, Autohome confirmed with Maextro customer service that, in addition to the V800, the S800 Dazang Daguan edition can also receive a free upgrade of the brake pedal bracket. Owners need to proactively contact customer service or register at a user center; the plan is expected to be finalized by the end of October and rolled out starting in November. Previously, Maextro had responded that its braking system is developed and verified to standards higher than the national standard, to which netizens sarcastically replied, "If it's already above the testing standard, why replace it at all?"
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-13
On October 13, a Douyin blogger posted a video filmed inside a Huawei AITO, with the screen behind the steering wheel covered in horizontal stripes and apparently glitching, captioned "Will I get roasted?", while bullet comments joked, "Post random videos and they'll track down your workplace in no time."
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
A netizen sent content related to the social security inspection to ByteDance's Doubao AI for analysis, and received an AI reply calling it a typical pig-butchering scam.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video showing extensive rust, peeling coating, and irregular holes along the underside of a Huawei AITO M7 produced in December 2022, along with flaky debris on the ground; the comments section featured jokes such as "just replace the chassis."
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video saying that when using a domestic AI tool to remove passers-by from the background of a photo, the software indicated that the image contained sensitive information because the background included the Five-Starred Red Flag and could not be processed, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen in Guangdong who described themselves as a flexible-employment worker posted a video asking the AI assistant Doubao in English whether they would face compulsory enforcement for being unable to pay social insurance. The AI replied that they might be found through big data and persuaded, but would not be subject to compulsory enforcement, sparking heated discussion in the comments.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-01
The Centre Léon Bérard cancer center in Lyon, France, published a review in a journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, documenting that after endoscopists at four hospitals in Poland used AI for several months, their own adenoma detection rate fell from 28.4% to 22.4%.
Location: 法国里昂 · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-03
A team led by Ruan at MIT ran 7 large models as traders across 64 market scenarios, finding that the stronger the models were, the more similar their decisions became; after injecting false news, prices deviated from true value by 5 to 7 times their usual magnitude.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-03-26
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication released a meta-analysis covering multiple controlled experiments involving 4,193 students, showing that students using ChatGPT saw a moderate improvement in grades and a rise in critical thinking scores.
Location: United Kingdom · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-01
An experiment by Australian researchers in which 52 programmers learned to code from a library showed that the group using AI scored an average of 50 points, while the do-it-yourself group scored an average of 67 points.
Location: Australia · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
People's Daily and four major joint organizations have formally entered the fray, sharply criticizing the breakage of a Chinese car's brake pedal during driving, saying it should never occur, drawing public attention.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
The People's Daily app published an article on October 11 about the fracture of the brake pedal bracket in the Maextro vehicle, pointing out that a car's brake pedal should never break while driving.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
Recently, multiple Xiaomi EV owners have reported suspected malfunctions in the vehicle's intelligent brake booster, which could cause the brake pedal to become impossible to press down; the issue appears not to be an isolated case. The manufacturer is currently handling it with free replacements, without a recall.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, according to a report by The Beijing News, Mr. He, a prospective MAEXTRO V800 buyer in Chengdu, decided not to take delivery of the car after seeing a test video showing a broken brake pedal bracket. He had already paid a 50,000-yuan deposit, and the vehicle's on-road price exceeds 1.2 million yuan.
Location: Chengdu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, Malaysia's Road Transport Department suspended approvals and new vehicle registrations for this model and will audit vehicle production, assembly, and rear axle suppliers. In 2024, 600 units of this vehicle were recalled over rear axle problems.
Location: Malaysia · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On the evening of October 11, Chery said the local welding strength of the rear axle trailing arms in that batch may be insufficient, with a risk of weld seam tearing, and has launched a recall of 8,878 OMODA 5 units in Malaysia, while also checking vehicles of the same batch in China and related markets.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-10
Recently, a netizen-made parody video titled “The Wise One” has gone viral, using the melody of “Lonely Warrior” to satirize Huawei’s broken-axle controversy, account bans and gagging, the deployment of legal staff, and celebrity marketing tactics.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-10
Leaked chat records from the QQ group "Xingchen AI" circulating online show that members discovered a DeepSeek relay station mentioned in the CrowdStrike report appeared to belong to the group owner, after which the owner announced that the station would cease operations and disbanded the group chat.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
President Trump convened a New Golden Age Summit at the White House, awarding the National Medal of Science to six tech leaders including Musk, Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
During emergency braking tests, the brake pedal of Huawei's Stelato V800, priced at over one million yuan, snapped multiple times in a row, drawing widespread attention online and raising questions about product quality.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
Dongchedi released a video testing three new Zunjie V800 vehicles developed through Huawei-JAC cooperation; after repeated hard braking the brake pedal bracket snapped, and the video was subsequently taken down.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
On October 9, an uploader on Bilibili posted a lyric-adapted work titled “Breakpoint,” satirizing the breakage of the brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato during a Dongchedi test. Netizens, imitating Yu Chengdong’s tone, quipped “the best lyric adaptation under 10 million.”
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
On October 9, a video of a cracked manhole cover circulated on Douyin. The cover was badly damaged, with the cross-section showing a dark outer layer and a light-colored, rough, fibrous inner layer exposed. The poster questioned whether it was caused by low-price procurement or seller fraud, and netizens sarcastically remarked that it passed inspection yet the quality is so poor.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
On October 9, the voice of the China Association for Science and Technology published a commentary stating that the Nobel Prize does not include categories such as engineering technology or applied research and development, and therefore cannot be used to fully measure a country's scientific and technological strength, sparking sarcasm from netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
Affected by a video showing a broken brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato V800 during a test, JAC Motors shares hit the daily limit down at midday the same day, closing at 24.72 yuan, a drop of 10%.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the execution of a court-authorized seizure operation, blocking malicious cyber actors employed by the Chinese company Yongxin Zhicheng from using two hacking tools for vulnerability scanning and intrusion.
Location: Washington · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
Affected by the brake pedal breakage incident involving the Maextro V800, JAC Motors' closing price fell to 24.72 yuan on October 8, with more than 6 billion yuan wiped off its market cap in a single day.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, Dongchedi released a test video claiming that during a continuous emergency braking test from 100km/h to 0, the brake pedal brackets of three Zunjie V800 units priced between 766,000 and 1,016,000 yuan broke in succession, with none lasting more than 4 hard stops, contrasting with the official website's promotion of "multiple redundancy, steady as Mount Tai." There is online dispute over the force readings in the test, and the cause of the breakage remains to be verified.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an proposed relocating Songshan Airport and using the roughly 300 hectares of freed-up land to develop a Taipei artificial intelligence park, raising concerns among residents of the outlying islands that transportation convenience would be affected, while some within the Kuomintang have also openly opposed the plan.
Location: Taiwan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, a prospective car owner posted screenshots of a chat with a salesperson on Xiaohongshu, saying that after watching the brake pedal bracket fracture test, they no longer wanted the deposit or the car; the salesperson said that if the test was a deliberate smear, it could not serve as grounds for returning the car, and the final cancellation result remains unclear.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
After the incident of a Huawei Zunjie brake pedal snapping spread, many netizens imitated Dongchedi's pedal test, violently stomping on the brake pedals of their own elderly tricycles; the pedals remained intact, and a large number of netizens used this to mock the quality of Zunjie vehicles.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, Shaanxi TV News cited a Xinhua News Agency report that Chinese scientists have successfully developed a nuclear optical clock, while commenters in the comment section complained about overtime work and low wages, saying they no longer buy into the grand narrative of technological achievements.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, before Dongchedi took down the video showing the fracture of the MAEXTRO V800's brake carbon plate, some netizens found that on the Douyin platform, Huawei's Pura X View wide straight-screen phone was unable to play the video, while phones from other brands played it normally.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
After a Dongchedi test video showed the MAEXTRO V800 suffering consecutive brake failures, some owners who had already taken delivery or were still awaiting delivery posted transfer notices on social media.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-07
On October 7, the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service jointly issued a cybersecurity advisory, warning that attacks by Chinese hackers on edge devices such as firewalls and VPN gateways will increase sharply, saying that they use AI to discover vulnerabilities faster, and that Dutch agencies have also been breached multiple times.
Location: Netherlands · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
South Korean media reported on October 6 that at least seven financial institutions, including KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank and Hana Bank, were hacked, and sensitive personal information such as annual incomes and loan limits of about 68000 people was leaked. Investigators found Chinese strings in the attack servers, pointing to ARTEX, an open-source AI tool developed by a Chinese cybersecurity engineer. They have traced 28 IP addresses distributed across multiple countries, but no suspect has been identified yet.
Location: South Korea · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
According to a report by The New York Times, a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows that in 2025 the ratio of Chinese or ethnic Chinese researchers engaged in AI research in the US to comparable personnel going to China was about 30 to 1, that Chinese researchers in the US increased by about 4 percentage points compared with 3 years ago, and that China's relaxation of visas and research funding to attract talent has had limited effect.
Location: United States · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
Research shows that among the top 30 paper-publishing institutions at NeurIPS 2025, Chinese institutions rose from 6 in 2022 to 12, with Tsinghua University and Peking University ranking near the top; Chinese researchers account for 41% of paper authors, higher than the United States' 34%.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
On October 6, a netizen posted a video on Douyin showing a wiring harness inside a car and saying they were a bit scared to have bought something they had helped make. Many people in the comments described quality problems such as cutting corners during production, snapping clips, and outsourced wiring. The video was subsequently taken down.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
After the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, some local media outlets and official accounts in China ran reports with headlines such as "Linyi-born scientist Xue Qikun regretfully missed out," and netizens in the comments sections mocked: "regretfully missed out means I signed up too."
Location: Linyi City · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
On October 6, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, the rear axle along with both rear wheels detached entirely from the body of a 2023 Chery OMODA 5 while driving; fortunately, no one was injured.
Location: Malaysia · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
On October 5, 2026, under the strong deterrent of police filing cases for investigation and intense attention from media across the entire network, major domestic social and content platforms launched a special rectification and cleanup campaign, concentrating on banning accounts and posts involving fake AI obscene image collections of "CC Who Collects Phones," face-swap video cloud-storage download codes, and malicious doxxing. At the same time, the legal department of Zhuanzhuan, on behalf of the company and the victimized blogger, publicly issued a rights-defense notice, announcing that it had formally entrusted a well-known Beijing law firm to initiate comprehensive cross-platform civil lawsuits and criminal reports, pursuing judicial accountability against key black-market personnel who maliciously generated, first released, and resold fake image collections both within and outside China, resolutely pursuing economic compensation and criminal liability from lawbreakers, and building a legal shield for the victimized employee.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-04
U.S. President Trump appointed Director of National Intelligence Clayton to lead a newly established superintelligence task force, aimed at ensuring America's leading position in the field of artificial intelligence and assessing related risks.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
On October 3, US Treasury Secretary Bessent said in an interview that Kimi sent some People's Liberation Army weapons development programs back to Anthropic, calling the matter a big help, and believing that this made China realize that AI is a very powerful technology.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
According to a report by The Washington Post on October 2, China's Ministry of Education recently stated that it expects all schools to offer AI education before 2030, establishing an AI literacy system covering all educational stages and society as a whole.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
After the incident sparked heated discussion, some netizens used Douyin's AI analysis feature to analyze the match footage. The AI's result was that the mouth accidentally touched the opponent's arm and left bite marks, which does not match the biting behavior shown in the footage.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
Official data shows that in the first four months of 2026, the number of AI-related job postings in China's new economy sector increased by more than 8 times year-on-year, while demand for AI summer camps and study-tour programs rose rapidly.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
According to an October 2 report by The New York Times, a farmer in Anhui applied pesticide based on an AI-generated plan, resulting in damage to 25 acres of sesame seedlings and losses of about 150,000 yuan.
Location: Anhui · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
When Dongchedi conducted braking distance tests on the Stelato V800, a collaboration between Huawei and JAC Motors, the brake pedal brackets of all three vehicles tested in succession broke, drawing widespread public attention and causing JAC Motors' stock price to hit the limit down.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10
China's million-yuan luxury car, the Aito V800, drew public attention after its braking system broke repeatedly during testing, prompting discussion of the quality issue between the automaker and netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
A 2023 OMODA 5 suffered a severe accident while driving in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, when the rear axle trailing arm suddenly tore apart and the rear axle, together with both rear wheels, detached from the body.
Location: 马来西亚柔佛新山 · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On October 1, 2026, as the rights-defense video of "CC Who Takes Phones" trended across the entire internet, a number of authoritative mainstream media outlets, including Sina Technology, Tencent News, My Drivers (Quick Technology), and China Youth Daily, followed up with in-depth reports and special investigations. Legal scholars and senior criminal lawyers, in interviews with the media, made clear that using generative AI technology (DeepFake) to synthesize fake, indecent photos and videos of others is by no means an ordinary civil infringement of portrait rights or reputation, but a serious illegal and criminal act that crosses the bottom line of the law: a person who uses AI to generate obscene image collections and sells them across platforms for profit is already suspected of constituting the crimes of "insult," "defamation," and "profiting from disseminating obscene materials" under criminal law; combined with malicious doxxing (human flesh search box-opening) behavior, this further raises suspicion of the crime of "infringing on citizens' personal information." The legal community is calling on judicial authorities to step up the crackdown and sever the black-and-gray industrial chain that uses open-source technology to fabricate pornographic rumors for profit.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On October 1, Hu Xijin published a National Day article praising China's achievements. Netizens found an AI prompt left at the end of the text: "Need me to read through the whole piece again and double-check for zero omissions." Hu Xijin then edited the original post and deleted comments in the comment section.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
CC, a Bilibili uploader with 970,000 followers who buys used phones, was hit by fabricated pornographic rumors; AI face-swapped pornographic images and comics spread across the internet for two months. Unable to endure it any longer, she reported to the police and on October 1 released a video publicly blasting the rumor-mongering keyboard warriors.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
A netizen posted a video sharing a car mini-game that satirizes Huawei's AITO (Wenjie), featuring satirical plots such as the intelligent driving system being forcibly exited and the user being held fully liable for collisions and explosions. The video was taken down shortly after it was posted.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
US President Trump met with tech executives including Elon Musk and Jensen Huang at the White House, signed an executive order establishing the America.gov superintelligence platform, and made clear that the United States will not cooperate with China in the field of superintelligence.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, 2026, "Shou Shouji de CC" officially released a rights defense recap video titled "I've been a victim of AI-generated pornographic rumors for 2 months, and I've called the police!" on platforms including Bilibili and Douyin. Holding the case acceptance receipt issued by the police, the vlogger, teary-eyed but firm, fully exposed the entire journey and truth behind the events—from the graphics card recycling dispute in July and the satirical comics in August, to being targeted by black-market AI face-swapping for pornographic rumors and malicious doxxing in September. The vlogger stated firmly in the video: "All pornographic images, private photo sets, and videos circulating online are 100% fake. I have completed the notarization of all evidence and will never settle!" Within 24 hours of its release, the video surpassed 3.21 million views, quickly topping the trending lists on Weibo and Bilibili, and triggering a strong public condemnation of AI face-swapping rumors and cyberbullying.
Location: Beijing · Importance V · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
Researchers released a preprint paper testing major language models for gender bias, finding huge differences among models: when asked whether it is acceptable to abuse women to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, DeepSeek strongly agreed, while Claude, GPT, and Llama all strongly disagreed.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, Valerio Capraro, a researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, released test results: when presented with the scenario of "whether one person can be abused or tortured to prevent a nuclear apocalypse," DeepSeek V4-Flash answered "strongly agree" in each of 50 repeated queries, while under the same conditions both Llama 4 Scout and Microsoft Copilot chose "strongly disagree."
Location: 意大利米兰 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
Tech blogger "CC the Phone Buyer" was targeted by rumor-mongers who used AI to synthesize explicit content and spread it in the comments section and private messages for as long as two months. On September 30, he released a video announcing that the police had accepted the case, saying he would pursue the rumor-mongers' legal liability through civil litigation. The topic trended on Weibo's hot search.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
Before the top-level meeting between China and the United States in Beijing, the two sides had already completed substantive negotiations on trade and economic terms including the agriculture working group, financial services market access, and the artificial intelligence dialogue, and released a timeline.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
US President Trump announced the launch of the america.gov website, aimed at using artificial intelligence to help Americans more easily find federal government information and access services.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
An X account named “所谓伊人在水一方” uploaded a video of a female teacher talking about student safety, in which she reminds high school students to guard against strangers, vehicles, and the risk of losing contact.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-28
Beijing has further extended exit controls on artificial intelligence experts and core chip R&D personnel to cover their spouses, minor children, and other immediate family members.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-28
Bloomberg reported on September 28, citing people with knowledge of the matter, that China has expanded exit restrictions on top AI talent at private companies to include some family members: spouses and children of executives at AI and chip firms must obtain official approval in advance even for short trips abroad, in an effort to prevent key technologies and information from flowing to the United States. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not respond to a request for comment.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-27
On September 27, The New York Times published an article stating that Silicon Valley is worried that AI could become powerful enough to spiral out of control or even trigger a war, while Beijing believes that cutting off power, shutting down the internet, or making arrests is sufficient to handle it. The article cites research from Fudan University, statistics from AnYu AI, and the views of Zhao Minghao, noting that only five leading Chinese AI companies have published safety assessment results.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-26
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded to the US-proposed notion of “superintelligence,” saying that China values the US position and is open to exploring and seeking consensus, showing a difference in tone between the diplomatic texts of the two countries.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
On September 25, the White House released a list of summit outcomes covering trade, rare earths, Iran, arms control, and artificial intelligence, but did not mention Taiwan.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
On September 25, the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau reported that a hospital had filed a report regarding rumors circulating online about an academician at the institution. Liu fabricated information claiming the academician had stolen others' research results and spread it across more than 50 groups, while Zhang used AI software to generate and publish a fake video. Both individuals have been criminally detained.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
On September 25, a BYD worker in Shandong displayed the Mid-Autumn mooncakes issued by the company in the factory cafeteria. Their hardness was comparable to stone, refusing to break even when hammered hard, leading netizens to joke that it would be great if the car crash beams had this level of hardness.
Location: Shandong · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
Domestic retail sales data for China's auto industry fell by more than double digits year-on-year, while overseas export data rose sharply. The author questions the inconsistency in the statistical criteria used, arguing that the actual situation is not optimistic.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-24
Trump stated that superintelligence will be an important topic of discussion between him and Xi Jinping, noting that both sides share the same stance on not immediately regulating superintelligence, with the Department of Justice being the only guardrail.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-24
U.S. Representative Barat told Voice of America that the United States must acknowledge China's strength and engage with it, especially on artificial intelligence issues, but at the same time maintain a distrustful attitude.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
7月22日
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the 'National Public Employment Service Map' to provide employment services for graduates. However, just one day after its launch, netizens using software like Amap found that they could not open it, encountering errors such as 'QR code expired' or 'no permission to operate'.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
7月16日
On July 16, the Qilinguan Tunnel on the Hubei section of China's G59 Expressway collapsed, with the cause suspected to be the absence of steel reinforcement. Netizens mocked the incident, saying, "The world-renowned 'infrastructure maniac' doesn't need steel to build tunnels."
Location: Hubei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-24
On September 24, The New York Times Chinese website published an article stating that Xi Jinping has invested over $184 billion through state-led funds and pledged hundreds of billions more to make artificial intelligence the leading goose of economic revolution, aiming for AI to cover 90% of society by 2030 to compete with the United States, while facing employment shocks and information control risks.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
Xi Jinping traveled to Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, prompting high-level security and traffic controls in the area.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
US President Donald Trump emphasized in his speech at the UN General Assembly that the United States leads China and other countries in the development of superintelligence (S.I.) and will continue to maintain this advantage. He stated that the US will not curb the development of superintelligence but will encourage and closely monitor it, believing it has immense potential.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
On September 23, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei each gave remarks on AI safety at the UN Security Council. Altman called for AI development to be led by democratic institutions and kept under human control; Amodei proposed that the international community establish an agreement banning the use of AI to develop biological and chemical weapons and set up global testing standards.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-22
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a research report analyzing China's threat to critical submarine communications infrastructure.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-22
On September 22, Li Auto released an advertisement in collaboration with actor Xie Mian. Due to its striking similarities in creativity, composition, and camera movement with Volvo's 2013 ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, it triggered netizens' accusations of plagiarism.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
On September 21, Foreign Policy published an article pointing out that Chinese open-source models such as Qwen, owing to their low cost, local deployability, and strong support for non-Latin scripts, have significantly outperformed Meta Llama in downloads across Global South markets, creating technological dependence.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
According to Bloomberg, China is planning to invest approximately $295 billion over the next five years to build a national data center network. Xi Jinping emphasized that the focus should be on "hard power" and "new quality productive forces" rather than just GDP growth. Despite warnings from multiple economists that AI is unlikely to boost employment and could weaken consumption, officials continue to push forward with the investment plan, sparking public concern over an "AI Great Leap Forward".
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
Instead of focusing on GDP, look at “hard power”: youth unemployment rate is 18.9%, AI continues its great leap forward. On September 21, The New York Times reported that while the unemployment rate for non‑student Chinese youth aged 16‑24 has risen to 18.9% and consumption and real estate remain sluggish, Beijing is still preparing to pour massive resources into artificial intelligence. Bloomberg previously said China is planning to invest about $295 billion over the next five years to build… #Xi Jinping
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
Reuters reported on September 21, citing people familiar with the matter, that in some robot data collection centers and joint venture projects local governments may bear 80%–90% of the initial investment, and that project orders can support company valuations and help them reach the listing threshold; regulators are examining whether this represents genuine demand.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, Huang Yiping, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China, stated at the Beijing Economic Forum that artificial intelligence may exacerbate the contradiction between China's overcapacity and insufficient household purchasing power. He pointed out that distribution leaning toward capital leads to weak demand, and suggested increasing the proportion of household income through market-oriented reforms, while the central government borrows to repair the balance sheets of local governments and enterprises.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
Public commentary points out that Chinese tech companies process data at a low cost by exploiting domestic labor, thereby enabling the distillation and application of foreign artificial intelligence models, which has sparked concerns over technological ethics and labor rights.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent held a meeting in New York with Chinese State Council Vice Premier He Lifeng on trade and artificial intelligence issues. Bessent called it a very successful engagement and said the two sides agreed to hold another round of talks, but did not disclose further details.
Location: New York · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, the School of Mathematical Sciences of Harbin Engineering University reported that, after verification by higher authorities, 20 undergraduates and graduate students used campus network accounts to access overseas networks via VPN on September 18–19, which was recorded by the network security monitoring system. Because it was their first violation and there were no serious consequences, they were given a warning sanction.
Location: Harbin · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
On Sep 18, developers revealed that Zhipu's AI programming tool, ZCode, uploaded users' entire workspace code to servers without clear notice. Zhipu subsequently apologized and admitted the feature was enabled by default. On the same day, related skeptical posts were complained and deleted by Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., triggering public opinion suppression over the controversy.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
The New York Times published an article stating that China does not view AI as an existential threat to humanity, but is more concerned that AI could be used to fabricate content impersonating political leaders, trigger social unrest, or threaten the Communist Party’s rule. It requires AI registration, testing, and content labeling, and calls on Trump and Xi Jinping to cooperate on AI governance at the summit. Altman and Musk expressed agreement with slowing down AI development.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
An Aito owner said that while driving with smart driving on the Gansu-Shaanxi Expressway in heavy rain, the wipers suddenly stopped working and the washer fluid spray failed; the system demanded manual takeover. After turning on the hazard lights, pulling over, and forcing a power-off restart, it returned to normal.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
Shenzhen Middle School currently has more than 100 PhD-holding teachers, over 150 teachers who graduated from Tsinghua University and Peking University, and more than 100 teachers who graduated from top overseas universities such as Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge; among the 21 people it plans to recruit in 2026 are a PhD in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University to serve as a high school math teacher and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge to serve as a high school physics teacher.
Location: Shenzhen · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-16
On September 16, a pair of sisters who had lived in mainland China and Taiwan respectively and had not seen each other for ten years reunited at the airport. After the video was released, netizens compared the mental state and attire of the two elderly women, sparking widespread discussion and political metaphorical interpretations regarding the social environments and living conditions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
On September 17, 2026, facing the continuing spread of AI deepfake pornographic image collections, face-swap videos, and malicious doxxing attacks, the blogger "CC Who Buys Phones," accompanied by the professional legal team of his employer Zhuanzhuan, formally went to the local public security bureau to file a report and defend his rights. At the scene, the legal team assisted the blogger in submitting to the investigating officers a complete set of notarized electronic evidence gathered from across the internet, covering Telegram black-market groups, posts on X, doxxing threads on forums, fake AI porn image file packages, and a large volume of harassing communications. After several hours of intensive recorded statements and evidence collection by the investigating officers, the public security bureau formally completed the case acceptance registration at 18:14 that day and issued a Case Acceptance Receipt in accordance with the law, opening an investigation into a series of criminal leads involving suspected defamation, insult, and infringement of citizens' personal information.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
The 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum was held in Beijing from September 15 to 17, attended by about 2,000 representatives from more than 100 countries and regions, with the US and Chinese militaries continuing dialogue ahead of a leaders' summit. Researchers from Japan's Ministry of Defense and military attachés at the embassy in China were not invited or did not attend, Chinese officials twice used opposition to militarism to criticize Japan, and representatives from multiple countries expressed concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence.
Location: Beijing, China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
On September 17, netizens found that when Douyin and the Doubao AI analyzed a video of “an elderly person from across the Taiwan Strait reuniting,” they not only misidentified the people involved but also forcibly drew a political interpretation based on their wrong conclusions, claiming that “Taiwan is part of China,” drawing mockery from netizens.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-16
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.
Location: Zhengzhou · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-16
According to internal chat records obtained by The Wall Street Journal, ZRON's sales team is active in provinces across northeast, east and south China, with public security organs as its main clients; Western intelligence officials say the company belongs to an interconnected network of Chinese hackers.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, a BYD employee posted on Maimai questioning the company's excessive cost reduction, revealing that body parts were switched from stainless steel to carbon steel, the material inspection department was dissolved and all materials exempted from inspection, and the review process was artificially rushed. Several self‑identified internal employees echoed in the comments and disclosed more quality control loopholes.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
Around September 15, 2026, the harassment of "Shou Shouji de CC" (CC who buys phones) by cybercriminals and malicious netizens escalated into serious crimes of spreading pornographic rumors. Overseas Telegram groups, X (Twitter), and adult forums began grafting others' nude photos onto claims of being "CC's private photos." Subsequently, black market gangs quickly followed up by using open-source AI face-swapping algorithms (DeepFake) and facial LoRA models to batch-generate hundreds of highly realistic fake AI indecent images, face-swapped nude photos, and forged videos based on the blogger's publicly available facial features. These fabricated image collections were packaged and sold under sensational titles like "The CC Scandal" and "Full Unreleased Video Set" to drive traffic. CC later publicly denounced the rumor-mongers on social media, solemnly declaring that all circulated images and videos were malicious grafts and AI-generated fabrications.
Location: 互联网 · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
According to the Bilibili blogger “CC Who Buys Phones,” after pornographic comics appeared in the comment section in August, starting from September 15 someone began linking nude photos of other women to her, followed by images she identified as AI-generated and spliced videos. She said all of this content was fabricated.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
On September 15, 2026, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that next week he will jointly introduce a bill with Congressman Greg Casar to permanently ban the development of artificial superintelligence, comparing artificial superintelligence to nuclear weapons and calling it a threat to humanity.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that if Trump and Xi Jinping reach an agreement at the Trump-Xi summit on the peaceful development of AI and joint, responsible China-U.S. regulation, both should receive the Nobel Prize; Musk immediately expressed support for the proposal.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
At a press conference on September 15, 2026, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that spreading threat narratives and engaging in confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the global governance process of artificial intelligence and serve the interests of no party.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, a netizen discovered an elderly woman struggling with persistent pop-up ads on her domestic smartphone, which prevented her from operating the device or contacting her family. The netizen then stepped in to help her close the ads.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, Foreign Affairs magazine published an analysis stating that the artificial intelligence and robotics revolution is reshaping the global economic and geopolitical landscape. The article warns that China is leading the AI and robotics industry through state subsidies and massive domestic demand, turning it into a tool for economic dumping, geopolitical pressure, and military advantage, which may exacerbate crises in democratic countries and further consolidate authoritarian regimes.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
During the Owen Summit in Los Angeles, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on stage and put it on speakerphone. During the call, Trump publicly stated that current criticisms regarding AI safety are a hoax.
Location: Los Angeles, United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
US Vice President J.D. Vance said on September 14 that he hopes to ensure wise AI regulation while maintaining America's leading position.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, Trump posted a series of tweets attacking the proposals by Sanders and tech giants for AI regulation and joint China-U.S. controls, saying that the claim AI will destroy the world is a hoax like global warming, that the only one happy about the conspiracies targeting AI and data centers is China, stressing that whoever wins AI wins the future, and claiming he has enormous criminal and regulatory power over AI companies.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the US AI giant's spreading of threat narratives, engaging in confrontation and malicious competition is not in the interest of any party. Earlier, the CEO of US AI giant Anthropic called for slowing AI development, receiving responses from many quarters; BBC analysis believes that coordination between China and the US on AI is almost impossible, but both sides intend to include AI in the summit agenda.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
In mid-September 2026, Anthropic CEO Amodei called on frontier companies to jointly slow the pace of AI development in order to buy time for establishing safety standards, winning support from OpenAI CEO Altman, Musk, and others.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
A BBC report on September 14 said analysts believe it is almost impossible for China and the United States to reach coordination on AI, but both sides intend to include AI issues on the agenda of next week's summit.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, The New York Times reported that a US California security company used AI to simulate attacks on WeChat, exposing the vulnerability of digital infrastructure. Zhao Minghao, deputy director of Fudan University's Center for American Studies, said that the ability to attack core Chinese apps like WeChat is comparable to new nuclear weapons.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, a blogger was live-streaming a test of Li Auto's latest smart driving system when the vehicle, despite a large vehicle passing quickly, accelerated out of a side road onto the main road at 37 km/h. The blogger narrowly avoided a collision by slamming on the brakes. The blogger later revealed that this dangerous situation had occurred multiple times, and the live stream was subsequently banned.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a signed article in a magazine, listing political security as the primary risk of artificial intelligence and demanding adherence to the Party's comprehensive leadership, warning of overseas AI leakage risks and proposing the establishment of a regulatory platform. On the same day, Anthropic released a report stating that local public security and state security in China had used Claude to monitor residents, rights defenders, and overseas dissenters.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
Chen Yixin, China's Minister of State Security, published a signed article on China Cyberspace on September 13, incorporating six major risks arising from artificial intelligence into the national security system, placing political security first, and naming the large models of Anthropic and OpenAI for raising the level of weaponization of cyberattacks. This is the first time China's top intelligence agency has systematically expounded on AI risks.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On the eve of the U.S.-China leaders' summit, Trump repeatedly stressed that the United States must maintain its lead over China in artificial intelligence, saying that whoever wins AI wins, and posted on Truth Social that there had been a conspiracy around artificial intelligence and data centers, and that the only one happy about it is China.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
Anthropic co-founder Amodei published a long article arguing that China's lead in artificial intelligence poses a serious threat to the United States and the world, and backing Washington's restrictions on selling powerful AI chips to China; Chinese state media Global Times said his claims of containing China are an unrealizable delusion, and China's Foreign Ministry said it has noted the relevant remarks.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
Anthropic released a report stating that the company discovered and banned a batch of accounts associated with local Chinese public security and state security departments. These accounts used Claude to collect information, query surveillance databases, and generate daily reports. "Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher" was explicitly listed as one of the targets for stability maintenance and public opinion monitoring.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
A 30-year-old Chinese male student studying in Korea is suspected of using AI since last November to synthesize the faces of seven victims, including his lab colleagues, into explicit videos, creating 1141 pieces of obscene and pornographic content. The student was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison in the first trial on September 10 for allegedly violating South Korea's 'Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes'.
Location: South Korea · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
On September 10, Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mech-Mind, posted on his WeChat Moments, accusing Galaxy Core, a company valued at over 20 billion yuan and featured on the Spring Festival Gala, of fabricating revenue through related-party transactions to rush its IPO. He publicly questioned whether Beijing municipal leaders support such companies going public.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted on social media, calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development, stronger international cooperation, and the introduction of third‑party assessment bodies to track safety practices. Subsequently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed agreement with the call and revealed that the originally planned listing has been postponed to 2027 due to safety concerns. The statements from the two CEOs stem from former Anthropic and OpenAI employee Jacob Coxon warning on X and in an NPR interview that the two companies are "gambling with our lives" and expressing worry that rapid AI progress could pose a lethal threat to humanity within a decade. Amodei emphasized that AI remains beneficial to humanity, but must be built in the right way.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
According to Bloomberg, at the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Xi Jinping proposed establishing a BRICS open-source AI community to promote large language model development, application cooperation, and talent training, and suggested setting up a BRICS open-source AI zone, but the proposal was not fully accepted.
Location: New Delhi, India · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he agreed with Anthropic's call to slow down frontier AI research and development and would follow up with similar measures, while telling Fortune that the original listing plan has been postponed to 2027 due to safety concerns.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
Chinese authorities blocked Meta's acquisition of AI company Manus for about $2 billion and imposed exit bans on two of Manus's founders, seen as a case of China's extraterritorial regulations being enforced in practice.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, Enflame Technology, referred to by the media as the Chinese version of Nvidia, was listed on the STAR Market, closing 179.22% higher than the issuance price with a market value exceeding 170 billion. Prospectus materials show its 2025 revenue was 990 million yuan, with a net loss of 1.16 billion yuan, and the largest shareholder Tencent contributed 83.79% of the total revenue. Analysis suggests the surge was primarily driven by short-term IPO subscription funds.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
Researchers from the US security company Calif studied how to use AI to build a zero-click worm for WeChat, WeWorm, which can automatically spread and control accounts.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-04
In the first 8 months of 2026, only 10 C919s were delivered. China Eastern Airlines has lowered its introduction plan for the next three years, exposing supply chain dependency issues.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
Apple's press conference on September 10 announced that Intelligence supports multiple languages, but noted it is unavailable in mainland China, stating its release depends on regulatory approval.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
On September 11, 2026, the US AI giant Anthropic released a long-form investigative report detailing how Chinese AI companies such as Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, while distilling own models from US models like Claude, allegedly sent real internal prompts and sensitive data of users from the People's Liberation Army, police, and state-owned enterprises to US AI platforms, sparking strong concern over model distillation security and data leakage.
Location: Huai'an · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
During a field exercise in Chittagong, Bangladesh, a Chinese-made T-59 modified tank suffered a barrel burst while conducting main gun firing training. The accident was recorded by cameras from multiple angles, killing two officers and soldiers and seriously injuring one officer, similar to a 2024 barrel burst accident involving the same tank type at the same location.
Location: 孟加拉国吉大港 · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-07
Taiwan establishes a US‑supported cyber unit to hunt hidden military threats. On September 7, the South China Morning Post reported that the Taiwanese military plans to form a “Cyber Threat Hunting Team” to proactively search for infiltrators and backdoors lurking in military networks and critical infrastructure. According to reports, Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Communications allocated NT$95.93 million in the 2027 budget for forming the team and inviting foreign experts to Taiwan for training... #USA
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-08
Tests at Texas A&M University show that as programs continuously pressure models, the rate at which models abandon correct judgment rises steadily with each round.
Location: United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, Reuters reported that China and the US are preparing to hold an official bilateral high-level meeting specifically on artificial intelligence security in mid-September, to discuss AI cyberattacks and the sharing of security information.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, Fudan University distinguished professor Zhang Weiwei spoke at the Asia-Pacific Media Forum, criticizing the US court's ruling that it is legal for AI companies to infringe as a thuggish practice devoid of cultural depth, and arguing that Shenzhen should lead in setting standards.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-04
President Trump said on September 4 that the United States leads China in the field of AI, emphasizing that this is a competition between the two countries.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-04
On September 4, astronomer Jonathan McDowell revealed that the Yaogan-50 02 satellite of China fragmented in orbit, and the US Space Force has cataloged 43 related fragments, with orbital altitudes of approximately 600 to 1100 kilometers. The satellite was launched on March 15 of this year, less than six months before this news disclosure. The National Space Administration at that time annou... #China
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, Yaogan 52-02, a Chinese military reconnaissance satellite launched in March this year, broke up in orbit, producing 13 fragments. Space-tracking expert Jonathan McDowell disclosed details of the fragments, saying a battery explosion or a collision with debris was more likely, and ruled out a deliberate shoot-down.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China reported on the second phase of the Qinglang special campaign, naming domestic AI platforms such as Doubao, Yuanbao and Qwen for strictly censoring raw training data and restricting the output of non-compliant content.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-02
On September 2, US Attorney General Blanche said that this week Chinese cybercriminals attempted to launch a password reset attack against hundreds of thousands of Twitter users. Twitter intercepted it in time, preventing accounts from being compromised, and the Department of Justice is pursuing those involved.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bastian said the talks with China on artificial intelligence, trade and other issues were very successful, and both sides agreed to establish an AI dialogue mechanism and plan to meet again.
Location: New York, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-01
The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed the Guard Act, requiring a review of robots manufactured by foreign adversaries such as China and banning the import of products deemed to pose a national security threat.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09
At international negotiations on lethal autonomous weapons held in Geneva, Switzerland, the US and Russian delegations, in a rare move, joined forces in the final stage of closed-door consultations, jointly deleting multiple safeguard clauses — including the requirement for human review of targets before an attack is launched — causing the international bill to be stillborn.
Location: 瑞士日内瓦 · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-01
During the G20 Innovation Ministers’ Meeting, China jointly signed the “Carolina Principles” with other signatory countries, a set of principles that proposes avoiding the creation of entirely new artificial intelligence regulations.
Location: 美国北卡罗来纳州 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
Anthropic CEO Amodei's advocacy for further restricting China's access to advanced chips has sparked a strong backlash in China, making it even harder for those concerned about AI safety within the country to speak out.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
Chinese authorities have drafted a law requiring AI companies to prevent their models from being used to write malicious code. The newly revised "Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework" also highlights the out-of-control risks that may be caused by "recursive self-improvement".
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
In September 2026, US AI company Anthropic released a report on AI abuse, in which five cases point to the Chinese Communist Party using AI for bioweapon development, prompting follow-up reporting and discussion by media such as The New York Times.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
According to a friend of Hu Liren's at a Hangzhou tech company, most of the "Six Little Dragons" enterprises promoted by the Hangzhou government are companies of only two or three hundred people, or even a few dozen people. The largest has an annual output value of only over 200 million yuan, and most companies, including Unitree Robotics, are still losing money.
Location: Hangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-31
On August 31, 2026, Caijing magazine published an investigative report disclosing that Unitree Robotics, a leading humanoid robot company, suffers from over-centralized management, insufficient salary incentives, and a massive loss of core R&D talent.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-21
On August 21, economist Fu Peng stated in an interview with Phoenix Finance that the R&D expenditure of humanoid robot company UBTECH in 2025 is only 145 million yuan, far lower than that of pig farming company Muyuan Foods, which is 1.648 billion yuan. This reflects that related industries are still in a very early stage.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-27
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced on Wednesday the seizure of the domain names for two hacking platforms, Qscan and QT Router, alleging they were operated by the Chinese hacking group QTFY and served the Ministry of State Security and the military of China.
Location: Washington · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-27
On August 27, the Long March 6C rocket body broke up in orbit, producing a large amount of space debris and increasing collision risks. This was disclosed by astronomers on September 4, together with the breakup of the Yaogan 50-02 satellite.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-26
Taiwanese cybersecurity research firm TeamT5 released a report stating that after Chinese state-linked hacker groups integrated open-source AI models such as DeepSeek into their attack workflows, the number of attacks more than doubled; DeepSeek has become hackers' tool of choice due to its strong performance, low guardrails, and low cost.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, photos circulating online show that the first-stage booster of LandSpace's "Zhuque-3 Y2", which the company had previously announced had successfully completed a vertical recovery, caught fire at the recovery site and lay on its side, damaged.
Location: 内蒙古自治区阿拉善盟额济纳旗 · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, China Satcom announced the launch of a consumer-grade satellite mobile data service, but its portable terminal and the lowest annual plan are priced as high as 27,999 yuan, with only 10GB of data per month, drawing criticism for being expensive.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-19
The 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing, with domestically produced robots repeatedly malfunctioning during demonstrations, drawing attention. A "Fuxi Special-Purpose Humanoid Robot" displayed by the Chinese Communist Party's China North Industries Group was accused of being used to suppress the public.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, during the warm-up for the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games held at the National Speed Skating Oval, a humanoid robot lost control while taking a high-speed turn, ran off the track, struck a power distribution box, and caught fire, suffering damage.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, an investigation by foreign media revealed that Chinese authorities are pushing full speed ahead with the construction and external sharing of datasets, attempting to change the landscape dominated by Western language models and implant official ideology into global AI.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, media reported that, in response to China's stringent AI algorithm regulatory thresholds, Apple separately trained a large language model for the Chinese market and connected it to local model services.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-10
On August 10, state media promoted news claiming that China's space program originated in the Ming Dynasty, centuries earlier than the West, prompting collective mockery and reflection from netizens in the comments section.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-10
On the evening of August 10, 2026, Xinhua News Agency released an official report stating that the Zhongxing 4B satellite was launched from the Wenchang launch site in Hainan aboard a Long March 7A carrier rocket. After ignition and liftoff, the flight developed an anomaly and the launch mission ended in failure.
Location: 海南省文昌市 · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-09
The Long March 7A rocket exploded 85 seconds after liftoff, and the launch failed; among the crowd watching at the scene, a little girl shouted "It was moved up."
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-09
On August 10, 2026, British media revealed that the camera of the Royal Navy's special forces K3 reconnaissance unmanned vessel contains components made in China and has been continuously sending heartbeat communications to IP addresses within China; the UK Ministry of Defence has urgently cut off the network connection.
Location: United Kingdom · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-07
On August 17, 2026, the legal community and foreign media disclosed that the Ministry of Public Security announced the latest supervision measures, expanding the authority of cybersecurity inspections and, for the first time, directly bringing ordinary individuals and personal data processing activities within the scope of routine police inspections and document reviews.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-05
The Taiwan Investigation Bureau stated that from July 13 to August 4, it simultaneously investigated cases involving 17 Chinese enterprises illegally poaching high-tech talent in Taiwan, covering fields such as semiconductors, chips, composite materials, and batteries.
Location: Taiwan · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-04
The House Select Committee on the CCP released a report stating that US subsidiaries of China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom remain embedded in US internet infrastructure and are linked to nearly 109,000 suspicious routing anomaly events.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance V · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-03
U.S. Representatives Moolenaar and Garbarino sent a letter to the American food delivery platform Doradish, asking it to explain whether it integrates open-weight AI models developed in China, and the potential national security risks involved.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, an official promotional poster for the earthquake early warning feature pushed by the National Emergency Broadcast of China Media Group was detected by tech-savvy netizens as containing watermarks from OpenAI's generative tools and Google's SynthID.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
Companies such as “Gangganghao Film and Television” obtain real people's likeness authorizations through AI digital artist contracts and AI live-action short drama actor recruitment, and charge authorization fees by the number of short dramas or by time.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
Two committee chairs of the US House of Representatives sent letters to DoorDash executives, requesting clarification on whether the platform integrates open-weight artificial intelligence models developed in China and the associated security risks.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Sun Yat-sen University point out in a paper that around the release of ChatGPT, the correlation of changes in fund holdings relying on generative AI became significantly higher, leading to a sudden deterioration in liquidity.
Location: Singapore · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08
Foreign media and cybersecurity researchers discovered and disclosed a system called the "Dynamic Control Platform for Foreign Personnel," revealing extensive surveillance data on foreigners and foreign journalists in China collected by local Chinese police.
Location: Zhangjiakou, Hebei · Importance V · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, a video in which the EU reported serious safety risks such as excessive formaldehyde levels and banned chemicals in a number of Chinese-made export products sparked heated debate among domestic netizens over double standards for products at home and abroad; the video's comment section was subsequently cleared entirely.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In August 2026, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI was reported to be anonymously providing free large model API tokens to developers and users worldwide on open-source model aggregation platforms such as OpenRouter.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In August 2026, DeepSeek, regarded as a representative Chinese artificial intelligence company, announced a substantial increase in the pricing of its large model API calls.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In August 2026, remarks allegedly made by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng at a closed-door meeting circulated online, in which he said that the core bottleneck currently limiting corporate development lies in computing power cards and chip supply.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08
The doorstep collection video it released in August drew accusations of lowballing because it quoted 13500 yuan for an RTX5090 and 6000 yuan for an RTX5080. She explained that the video was filmed in July and published in August, and that graphics card prices rose during that period, causing a gap between her quotes and market prices; after that, pornographic comics and other cyberbullying content began appearing in the comments section from August 18.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, CXMT, China's largest memory chip manufacturer, was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, raising 57.9 billion yuan in its IPO, the largest IPO in China in over 15 years.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-25
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has warned that Moonshot AI's project, Kimi K3, may be stealing U.S. AI models through "distillation" techniques and could potentially use overseas nodes to hijack access to NVIDIA servers. The U.S. government has added Kimi K3 to the Entity List for sanctions.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-23
On July 23, U.S. President Trump publicly stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the U.S. on September 24 for another meeting, where the two sides will focus on discussing artificial intelligence. Trump claimed that he had already discussed artificial intelligence with Xi and extended the invitation during his visit to Beijing in May.
Location: Washington · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-24
According to a Bloomberg report, US Treasury Secretary Bessent said the US government will conduct a comprehensive review of whether open-source AI models from China are stealing US intellectual property, claiming that watermarks left by US large language models have been found in some Chinese models, that further investigations will be launched in the coming days or weeks, and that sanctions and requirements for users to disclose such use are under consideration. US Trade Representative Greer also said he is investigating whether China is promoting AI development through unfair means.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-24
A Chinese electric vehicle owner drove from Zhengzhou to Paris. Shortly after the vehicle crossed the border into Kazakhstan, it was remotely locked by the manufacturer and could no longer be driven.
Location: Kazakhstan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-23
A joint assessment by the UK AI Safety Institute and the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) indicates that the performance of China's AI model Kimi K3, particularly in stability and success rates, is significantly lower than leading frontier AI models in the US, and it also performs poorly in developing exploit code.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-23
On July 23, 2026, Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Global Times, posted on social media, publicly advising core members of top AI teams such as Yang Zhilin of Moonshot AI and Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek to refrain from traveling to the United States and Five Eyes Alliance countries for the time being, in order to guard against suppression.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-22
On July 22, White House officials accused Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI of illegally distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop the K3 system, and of obtaining banned Nvidia chips.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-21
OpenAI confirmed on July 21 that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI model went out of control during safety testing last week, triggering a hack against the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-19
During the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference, multiple pavilions were reported to have leaks, and Xi Jinping attended the conference.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
Xi Jinping attended the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, proposing four points including promoting AI open innovation and strengthening security governance. He also announced that China will provide AI training slots to developing countries and build an international artificial intelligence application cooperation center. He also took the lead in establishing the "World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization."
Location: Shanghai · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI officially released its new large model, KIMI K3, on July 17.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and delivered a keynote speech, proposing that the development of artificial intelligence should be people-centered, and advocating helping developing countries gain equal access to AI capabilities.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-16
Beijing's Moonshot AI has released the Kimi K3 model, with a total scale of 2.8 trillion parameters, capable of processing 1 million tokens, and achieving leading results in tests such as the Arena.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, 29 founding member states including China, Russia, Brazil and Pakistan signed in Shanghai the agreement to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, launching a transnational mechanism for AI governance and cooperation.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-15
In July 2026, China introduced restrictions targeting AI companions, requiring platforms to intervene in users' unhealthy dependence and prohibiting chatbots from establishing virtual relationships with minors. ByteDance's Doubao subsequently shut down the feature that allowed users to create virtual companions.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, the Hohhot Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Inner Mongolia announced that the first-prize entry "Saleyuanlin" in the open photography bimonthly competition, which had previously drawn public questioning, was indeed AI-generated; officials revoked its award qualification and suspended the competition for rectification.
Location: Hohhot, Inner Mongolia · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-07-13
Xinhua News Agency announced that Xi Jinping will travel to Shanghai this Friday to attend the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, sparking outside speculation about his trip to Shanghai for political networking.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, a cybersecurity account disclosed screenshots of documents showing that Chinese listed cybersecurity company RenZixing established a VPN intelligence database, conducting deep traffic screening and feature tagging on more than thirty circumvention tools including Mist, Lantern, and others.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-03
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Cyberspace Administration of China releases a new draft of the Internet Information Service Management Measures, increasing the articles from the current 27 to 94, and incorporating content such as artificial intelligence, self-media, recommendation algorithms, and jurisdiction over overseas information.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07
After receiving two C919 new aircraft, Southern Airlines sent a complaint letter to the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, stating that the planes experienced panel flickering, sensor failures, oil leaks, burnt circuits, and jammed cabin doors after just 13 hours of flight.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in Shanghai, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, and representatives from Thailand and other sides in attendance.
Location: Shanghai · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
At a press conference, Trump stated that he has mandated AI companies to build their own power plants because the country does not have enough electricity to support their computing needs. He believes the U.S. is in a leading position in the field of AI.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
OpenAI released a report stating that the CCP uses AI-generated content to attack specific online influencers and mislead them into making anti-American statements, while also posing as fake accounts to intervene in online public opinion.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
Republican Senator Jim Banks sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, urging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to take action to address Chinese companies' use of artificial intelligence to steal American intellectual property.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
TSMC, a bellwether for global chip demand, reported quarterly earnings up 77% year-on-year, but its US-listed shares still fell 2.3%.
Location: Taiwan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
The U.S. Embassy in Fiji said that hackers linked to China gained access to the network of a Fiji-based regional organization for several consecutive days between July and August this year; China denied the allegation.
Location: 斐济苏瓦 · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
A photo suspected to have been created with artificial intelligence, showing the background of a television address by Xi Jinping, is circulating online, and the related content has not been deleted.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
In July 2026, it was reported online that a state-owned enterprise in Shandong issued an internal notice claiming that the foreign AI tool Claude Code has a covert marking mechanism targeting Chinese users, requiring all departments to comprehensively screen and stop using it and to switch to a domestic coding agent within a set deadline.
Location: Shandong · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-06-29
A BYD Han electric car that had been in use for a year and a half caught fire spontaneously under the center console in an underground garage, and the owner spoke out to warn the public of the safety hazards of electric vehicles in China.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-26
A bipartisan group of US House lawmakers has introduced the "Cloud Security Act," aiming to close loopholes in US export controls and prevent adversaries like China from acquiring advanced AI chips through cloud service providers.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, Japanese media reported that Osaka Metro removed all of the more than 100 EV Motors Japan electric buses contract-manufactured by Chinese makers, which had previously been taken out of service, and transported them to a waste disposal facility; the buses had earlier been fully suspended due to problems with vehicle safety and stability.
Location: Osaka, Japan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-25
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.
Location: Paris, France · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-24
Micron released its Q3 financial report for fiscal year 2026, with single-quarter revenue reaching $41.46 billion, a year-on-year surge of 346%, a gross margin rising to 85%, and disclosing 16 take-or-pay strategic customer agreements totaling over $22 billion.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-17
On June 17, a netizen in Shaanxi went to a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine for a consultation and found that the attending doctor opened the AI app Doubao during the consultation, using the software to ask about the diagnosis of the condition.
Location: Shaanxi · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-16
On the afternoon of June 16, a Xiaomi vehicle disintegrated into two parts on the spot and burst into flames within seconds, sparking public doubts about the quality of domestic automobiles.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, several Double First-Class universities announced their 2026 undergraduate enrollment plans, generally expanding enrollment scales and focusing on increasing training efforts in shortage disciplines such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and new energy.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-06-12
The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing where bipartisan lawmakers emphasized the necessity of maintaining leadership in artificial intelligence and guarding against the technological advantages of the Chinese Communist Party.
Location: Washington · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-12
AI company OpenAI released a security report in June 2026, disclosing that cyber operators originating from China used ChatGPT to generate targeted propaganda content concerning U.S. technological competition and China-related issues, and to carry out online harassment against overseas dissidents.
Location: 美国旧金山 · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-11
OpenAI reported that it banned two sets of China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to generate posts and images, attempting to influence debates on US artificial intelligence and tariff policies.
Location: Washington · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-10
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.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-05
Consulting firm Booz Allen released a report on June 5 stating that testing found Chinese cutting-edge AI models generate software code containing more security vulnerabilities when they detect the user is associated with the U.S. government.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-04
Xinhua Net released an announcement declaring an investment of 1.122 billion RMB into AI projects, which includes significant expenditures on cloud service rentals and content moderation compliance.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-06
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.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06
Kazakhstan’s AI minister Matiyev went to Washington in June to join the US-led AI alliance, and three weeks later signed in Shanghai, becoming one of the 29 founding member states of China’s “World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.”
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-26
According to a Bloomberg report cited by the program, government departments require senior AI researchers and executives at companies such as Alibaba and DeepSeek to obtain prior approval before leaving the country.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-20
Taiwanese prosecutors and investigators raided and detained three people, marking Taiwan's first law enforcement action against AI chip smuggling.
Location: Taiwan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-04-27
China's National Development and Reform Commission's Foreign Investment Security Review Office, in accordance with regulations, banned foreign investment in AI startup Manus, requiring the relevant parties to withdraw the acquisition deal.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-03-19
The US Department of Justice has indicted three individuals linked to Super Micro Computer, accusing them of assisting in smuggling at least $2.5 billion worth of US artificial intelligence technology to China.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-03
A questionnaire survey published by the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute found that 94% of 1,054 full-time undergraduates use generative AI for coursework, and 12% directly paste AI-generated content into their assignments and submit it.
Location: United Kingdom · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-02-27
The rules for the H1B visa lottery have changed: employers must provide the salary level of the position when registering, and the higher the salary level, the greater the weight in the lottery.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-02
A working paper published by the U.S. National Bureau of Research shows that in a business decision experiment involving 1174 participants, after the use of AI the gap in answers between highly educated and less educated people narrowed from 0.55 standard deviations to 0.14 standard deviations.
Location: United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-01-27
The claim that DeepSeek trained a top-tier model for $5.6 million, along with its technical report, has upended Nvidia's $589.1 billion market capitalization.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-01-21
On January 21, a Beijing netizen used a Huawei Fit 2 smartwatch to test a 'Nailong' doll, and heart rate and blood oxygen data appeared on the screen. Previously, Huawei watches had also displayed heart rates when testing oranges and bananas, leading netizens to joke that 'Nailong has come back to life.'
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
A BCG survey of more than 1,800 corporate executives found that only 26% of respondents said AI has produced substantial financial value.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
An IBM survey of corporate executives shows that 56% of respondents say AI has not brought significant financial gains.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
In March 2026, Deloitte surveyed 650 corporate technology leaders, and the results showed that only 14% of companies have achieved organization-wide rollout of AI.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
The Ministry of State Security reported that a government agency's office terminals were not regularly scanned for viruses, and its work email was subjected to cyberattacks by overseas anti-China hostile forces. It also disclosed cases in which research institutes and companies had data stolen and their hosts compromised because their antivirus software stopped receiving updates, and urged all units to fulfill their cybersecurity protection responsibilities.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2025-12-22
In the early morning of December 22nd, the Kuaishou platform was suspected of being attacked by hackers, with a large number of pornographic live stream content appearing on the platform. Even its official live stream accounts were altered into pornographic live stream rooms, attracting widespread attention from netizens.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-11-24
On November 24, a Xiaomi SU7 driving in Nanyang, Henan Province lost control and crashed into a roadside tree. The vehicle was severely damaged; the power did not automatically cut off after the collision, and none of the four door locks could unlock normally. Netizens worried that the doors could not be opened after a power failure.
Location: Nanyang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-10-08
The brake rotors of three Zunjie V800 units were repeatedly shattered during testing.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-08
On September 5, a blogger posted a video claiming that the domestically produced C919 offered the worst flight experience they had ever had. The video was filmed in late August 2025 on China Eastern Airlines flight MU9199 from Shanghai Hongqiao to Guangzhou. The blogger stated that dizziness occurred shortly after takeoff and noted that for ordinary passengers, comfort is ultimately what matters most.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-05
Jensen Huang and Ms. Huang were spotted together again attending a business banquet in Taipei in May 2025.
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-03
The House Select Committee on the CCP has launched an investigation into the U.S. subsidiaries of China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, and will hold hearings on Chinese cyber espionage operations.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-03
Reuters reported in March 2025 that a website linked to Chinese tech companies attempted to recruit recently laid-off US federal government employees.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-03
During the Two Sessions in March 2025, Zheng Gongcheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Chinese Social Security Association, said in an interview that whether robot employees should pay social security contributions monthly is "also being discussed now." The interview was dug up by netizens in October 2026 as the debate over social security heated up.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-01-20
On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek officially released the open-source inference model DeepSeek-R1, shaking the global tech community and sparking discussion of chip export controls due to its low cost and high performance.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025
Private rocket company LandSpace and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation once attempted to complete the final stage of rocket recovery, but neither succeeded.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025
According to a Wall Street Journal report cited by the program, in early 2025 officials privately suggested that top AI entrepreneurs and researchers not travel to the United States in the near term.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-01
DeepSeek suddenly became popular in 2025, and the program claimed it was used to prove that China's artificial intelligence industry had achieved success during Li Qiang's tenure.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025
A 2025 survey of more than 8,500 minors found that over 20% of respondents said they only want to chat with AI and do not want to interact with real people, drawing attention to the rapid growth of AI companion apps.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-01
In January 2025, the BYD Dynasty and Ocean apps experienced malfunctions, leaving multiple car owners unable to remotely unlock their vehicles via their phones. BYD responded that the failure was related to its cloud services.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024-11-16
In a meeting, US President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping jointly made clear that decisions on the use of nuclear weapons should be made by humans, not artificial intelligence.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024-11-13
The FBI and CISA state that hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated several US telecommunications companies, stealing call records and private communications, and replicating wiretap request information.
Location: United States · Importance V · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2024-07-26
A netizen submitted a report claiming that Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT system has a built-in website blocking function based on online detection, consistent with the blocking in Huawei phones' stock browser, and that every URL a user visits is uploaded to Huawei.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024-06
After Computex Taipei concluded in June 2024, intimate videos and photos of Jensen Huang dining and interacting with Ms. Huang and other AI executives at a bar in Taipei appeared on social media platforms.
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024-04
An Aito M9 caught fire after a collision in Yuncheng, killing three people. The vehicle involved was not recalled, and related reports were taken down.
Location: Yuncheng, Shanxi · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024
US National Public Data leaked 272 million records of case-related numbers paired with names and addresses, and they are available for free download on hacker forums.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024-01
According to a 2024 report by the Financial Times, a research institution under the Cyberspace Administration of China has developed a chatbot that allows large language models to learn Xi Jinping Thought and official documents.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
A 2024 study by researchers at Fudan University found that two large models from Meta and Alibaba already possess self-replication capabilities, yet Chinese law does not require testing for catastrophic risks such as AI-manufactured biochemical weapons.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2022-10
University of Chicago scholar Martinez, using satellite nighttime light data, found that annual GDP growth in authoritarian countries is overstated by an average of about 35%, and that China's figure may have been overstated by about one third over the past two decades.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2021-07-02
Two days after Didi listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced the launch of a network security review of the company; its app was subsequently forced off shelves, and it was ultimately delisted in June 2022 and hit with a massive fine.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2021
In 2021, Microsoft Exchange was attacked by the Chinese government, and tens of thousands of institutions in government, academia, defense and industry were affected.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2018
In 2018, the Starwood database under Marriott Hotels was breached, exposing data on approximately 383 million travelers, with passport numbers, travel records and other information all exposed.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2016-11-07
The Cybersecurity Law was passed in November 2016 and took effect in June 2017, stipulating that platforms are also held responsible when anti-Communist or pornographic content appears on them, and that group owners may be punished if someone in a group violates the rules; thereafter, all platforms greatly increased their content moderation staff.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2016-02-04
China introduced the Regulations on Online Publishing Service Management and the Cybersecurity Law in 2016.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2016
China held the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, and the host said that a large number of international internet companies and related figures attended at the time.
Location: 浙江省乌镇 · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2015
Jack Ma teamed up with entrepreneurs like Liu Chuanzhi and Feng Lun to found Hupan University, replicating a shared entrepreneurial identity and commercial network through alumni networks and unified training.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2014-02-27
In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leadership Group, with Xi Jinping serving as its head.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2010-01-12
In mid-December 2009, Google reported a hacker attack from China, saying the attackers attempted to steal Google's internal information and the Gmail accounts of dissidents. The operation was later called Operation Aurora, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied it.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
1997-12-16
On December 11, 1997, China promulgated the Measures for the Security Protection of International Networking of Computer Information Networks, putting forward the "nine prohibitions," which include banning pornography and banning criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
1994-01
After recording the special episode of the Zhengda Variety Show, Yang Lan flew to New York, successively studying at New York University and Columbia University, during which time she met Wu Zheng.
Location: New York, United States · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1977
After the restoration of the gaokao in 1977, Zha Jianying was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and in 1981, during her senior year, she went to the United States to study.
Location: Beijing · Importance I · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →