US-China schedule first official AI talks under Trump; Bessent warns of sanctions over AI IP ’theft’; China formalizes WAICO with 29 founding members; SPC overhauls chip-design IP with punitive damages; controversial open-source licensing rulings continue to shape China’s legal landscape.
MIIT quantifies China’s open source ecosystem for the first time: 1.35B OpenHarmony devices, 10B model downloads; Jensen Huang defends Chinese open-source AI; White House specifically accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Fable 5; Arcee says Chinese models not inherently dangerous.
US Treasury threatens sanctions on Chinese open-source AI models over IP theft; MIT Technology Review analyzes how Chinese AI divides Trump’s camp; China explicitly champions open source at UN’s first global AI governance dialogue.