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- 01AI News17 Oct 2026
China proposes export curbs on frontier AI models
On Oct 16, China's commerce and science ministries published a draft adding 40 technologies to the country's banned and restricted export list, 23 of them in AI (large models, agents, computing clusters, information processing). A large model's core technology (weights, key checkpoints, source code, architecture) would be restricted if it meets any one test: compute of 10^26 operations or more, 2 trillion parameters or more, or a global top-10 ranking in public evaluations at the time of export. Multi-agent systems running 60+ agents at once and key tech for clusters of more than 10,000 AI accelerators are listed too. The commerce ministry says offering a restricted model through API calls, apps, websites or SaaS would not count as a technology export, but local deployment overseas would; tech already public via open source or papers is excluded, and open-sourcing restricted AI tech would get automatic licensing. Caveat: it's a draft, with public comments open until Nov 15, though exporters must register listed tech exports starting now; the ministry says most AI tech would still export freely.
Source: China Ministry of Commerce (opens in a new tab) - 02AI News13 Oct 2026
Microsoft announces Maia 300 AI chip
Maia 300 is expected to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt vs leading GPUs and up to 7x Maia 200 rack throughput; production in 2027.
Source: Microsoft (opens in a new tab) - 03AI News12 Oct 2026
ChatGPT answers build mini-apps
Replies can include charts, buttons, forms, and small tools, including on the free tier.
Source: OpenAI (opens in a new tab)