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China proposes export controls on AI model weights, agents and chip designs, with comment open to Nov. 15
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The proposal comes from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology. According to Bloomberg, it adds 23 AI technologies to the national export control list: LLM weights and source code, chip designs, intelligent agents and computing clu
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