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China publicly released a timeline to land astronauts on the Moon within three years, prompting the US to accelerate its Artemis lunar program under NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.

Qwen confirms that future Qwen 4.0 and Qwen 5.0 models will remain open source, countering rumours that Qwen4 would be the last open-weight release. The Qwen series has surpassed 3 billion cumulative downloads with over 460 open-source models released.

Shenzhen reportedly allows direct access to the overseas internet without a VPN, while Twitter Blue and Grok support Alipay payments, and OpenAI ads have appeared in subway stations—developments interpreted as signs of a new round of opening up.

The tweet marvels at how many official MCP and Skill services are now available in China, enough to support a Personal Agent for daily life across scenarios such as commuting, dining, office work, and entertainment, and cites a post compiling a list of domestic MCP/Skill services.

Compiled a list of services in China that have made official MCPs or Skills available (such as Amap, Baidu Maps, Tencent Maps, DiDi, Meituan, Taobao, and Luckin Coffee), along with a detailed breakdown of Amap MCP Server’s capabilities, showcasing the ecosystem of external services that personal agents can call.

China's Ministry of Commerce announces its first frontier AI export controls via Announcement No. 48, marking a significant policy shift in how advanced AI technologies are regulated for overseas transfer.

The tweet shares two charts: one showing the trend of China's newborn population, and another comparing HarmonyOS and Xiaomi EV deliveries, joking that the chart creator is "a true talent in the chart-making world."

A user claims that in addition to the national-level firewall GFW, some provinces in China now also have provincial-level internet firewalls, and @Grok is asked to provide an explanation.

San Francisco entrepreneurs and hardware designers highlight how China's Shenzhen manufacturing ecosystem enables far shorter hardware innovation cycles than the Bay Area, with rapid prototyping and tightly specialized local factories. Harman reportedly moved its design team to Shenzhen and saw faster shipping and award wins as a result.

Meta is reportedly developing a humanoid robot prototype in collaboration with a Chinese startup, expanding its push into robotics beyond its wearables and AR efforts.

A user shared their experience of repeatedly having their Claude accounts banned after using data center IP addresses and virtual cards to subscribe. They also claimed that when using cliproxyapi as a proxy, their account was banned within three minutes of asking a configuration question, leading them to suspect that Claude monitors the content of users’ questions.

中国正越来越多地使用数百辆电动自动驾驶卡车，它们全天候运行并能自行寻找充电站，颇具讽刺意味的是，这些卡车在运煤且最终由燃煤电厂供电。

A user shares personal OPSEC tips for using a VPN within China to bypass the Great Firewall (GFW) while evading surveillance and tracing, including recommendations on device selection, payment methods, and social media habits.

Apple announced that Apple Intelligence will launch in China with iOS 27.3, starting with a beta on November 4th, featuring notification summaries, translation, writing tools, and visual intelligence, plus integration with Alibaba's Qwen chatbot, though the new Siri AI is excluded.

Chinese state-owned investors supplied 27% of DeepSeek's $15.8B funding round, a sharp rise from 2% in its debut raise, according to The Information, while tech companies still account for the largest share of investors across both rounds.

Humanoid robot shipments surged 3.7x year-over-year to 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, with over 97% produced by Chinese companies, highlighting China's dominance in the robotics industry.

Tencent has officially launched its cloud drive product, offering cloud storage services to consumers.

Fenng and others criticize the economics of AI-generated drama series: one AI drama racked up over 4 billion cumulative views, with compute costs exceeding a million yuan yielding only tens of millions in returns, prompting doubts over whether the business model for churning out such low-quality content is worthwhile — with some even joking that writing web novels offers better returns.

A comment about a certain series: As of October, the series had surpassed 4 billion cumulative views across all platforms and had been bookmarked more than 10 million times, while total spending on computing power was just over 1 million yuan, generating commercial returns in the tens of millions of yuan. The author marvels at the high return on investment and reflects on the economic climate.

The Pentagon's DIA released a full-resolution image of China's top-secret winged spaceplane, closely resembling the US X-37B, photographed in orbit by a Maxar/Vantor commercial satellite. The report details China's four spaceplane missions since 2020, including recent on-orbit satellite capture and release demonstrations.