Past AI News

China’s State Council General Office issued guidance on adapting to AI to build an employment-friendly development model, tackling AI’s impact on jobs on two tracks. First, it sets up a job-risk assessment mechanism for AI applications to soften displacement. Second, it speeds up creating new occupations and occupational standards, expanding demand for roles such as digital managers, AI engineering technicians and AI trainers. It also calls for deepening the “AI+” initiative, encouraging eastern regions to build core AI industries and guiding central and western regions to take on upstream and downstream work such as data labeling and smart-device manufacturing, to create new sources of AI-related jobs.

On October 16 China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology opened public comment on revising the catalog of technologies prohibited or restricted from export, covering 23 AI technologies including large models, agents, compute clusters and information processing. According to a Yuyuan Tantian report on October 23, DeepSeek and MiniMax have since completed the required registration and finished open-sourcing and overseas licensing.