Technology
Beijing drafts export licences for its most capable cyber models
China's commerce and science ministries published Announcement No. 48 on 16 October, proposing to add 40 technologies to the export-control catalogue, 23 of them in artificial intelligence. Systems that generate or mutate malicious code above set success rates would be banned outright, while AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, very large model weights and high-capability agents would be restricted. Remote API access and already published open-source work are excluded, and a registration duty applies while comments run to 15 November.