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   China drafts tighter export controls on open-weight models and 23 AI technologies

   China's commerce and science ministries released a draft update to the national export control catalogue covering 23 key AI technologies, including large models, AI agents, compute clusters and data processing. Tools that can autonomously write or alter malware to attack critical infrastructure, the military or government agencies face a total export ban, while AI vulnerability-discovery tools get new export limits. Large-model controls apply when a model is trained on China's 'important data' and serves users based on it, or when core technologies such as weights, checkpoints, source code, architecture and training methods are involved - triggering at 10^26 FLOPs of training compute, at least 2 trillion parameters, or a global top-10 ranking. To protect its open-source boom, publishing restricted tech and weights as open source qualifies for automatic licensing; API, app, website and SaaS use stays exempt, but installing restricted AI tech on local servers abroad needs a standard license. OpenAI's Dean W. Ball said the plan does not shut down open-weight models but gives Beijing the option to do so.

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2. 17h
   China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, including LLMs and chip designs

   China's commerce and science ministries unveiled a draft plan on October 16 to add 40 technologies to the export control list — 23 of them AI-related, covering large models, AI agents, chip designs and computing clusters — with public comment open to November 15. For large models, curbs would cover weights, source code and core parts of models with at least 2 trillion parameters or top-10 rankings on performance and safety tests; chip know-how for 14-nanometre-or-below designs or 2.5D/3D stacked chips, plus some memory chip designs, would also be limited. Open-source code and published research are exempt, and overseas users can still reach Chinese models via apps, websites and APIs, though running a covered model on foreign servers counts as an export; firms using their own overseas cloud may get automatic licensing. A Commerce Ministry spokesperson said most AI technology can still be exported freely, that API calls, app interaction, SaaS and on-device deployment fall outside model-technology export management, that the plan targets no country or firm, and that a temporary export registration rule took effect the same day.

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