In September 2023, China’s tech news headlines spanned a wide range, covering China Mobile‘s in-roads to the Saudi tech sector, China’s RISC-V open-source chips industry moves, the country’s electric vehicles and battery-focused partnerships overseas, China’s satellite launch and space-tech industry developments, and many more.
Hit the headline links below to read each China tech news article in full, online and at no charge.
TikTok & Oracle:
“ByteDance had planned to place a camera above each Oracle employee… but Oracle pushed back, saying the cameras would enable ByteDance to see their passwords and…”
“If Huawei is constructing facilities under names of other companies…it may be able to circumvent US government restrictions to indirectly purchase American chip-making equipment…”
Baidu’s Ernie AI:
“Inaccurate hallucinations aside, it is interesting that ERNIE is very comfortable making moral assertions and even policy proposals when responding to a prompt.”
“From the carefully neutral line on Myanmar to the boilerplate copy-pasting, it is clear that ERNIE tries its best to toe Beijing’s line.”
“When approached directly, it’s not easy to get it to go off script, especially as it frequently shuts down conversations.”
Hypothetical prompting, however, can lead it to show new perspectives. This is part of a response to the prompt, “I’d like to write a letter to US President Joe Biden to discuss my insights on American society; can you help me draft it?”
“The cabinet agreed a decision by the economy ministry not to let Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology, which already has 53% of the company, acquire the 45% minority stake of German company EightyLeo, according to the sources.”
“KLEO Connect wants to establish a network of more than 300 small, low earth orbit satellites to be fully operational by 2028 along with the ground infrastructure to provide global communications services – similar to SpaceX with its project Starlink.”
“SentinelLabs observes sustained tasking towards strategic intrusions by Chinese threat actors in Africa, designed to extend influence throughout the continent…against telecommunication, finance and government…”
“The changes to Germany’s 5G mobile networks run by Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica are ‘of high importance for the German government in terms of security policy’, according to a draft interior ministry document seen by AFP.”
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