US artificial intelligence organisation Anthropic stated that users in China, who were advised to uninstall its Claude Code product, were never authorised to use it. This response followed Beijing's public warnings regarding security "backdoor" risks within the software.

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model has secured substantial market dominance, with gross margins reportedly between 70 and 90 percent. According to information from ByteDance's Volcengine MaaS platform, the model now accounts for more than half of the platform's 2026 MaaS revenue. This establishes Seedance 2.0 as China's leading artificial intelligence video generation tool.

China's Nayuta Space has introduced the 'Alaya' orbital computing constellation, intending to deploy 12,500 artificial intelligence compute satellites. This GW-class system integrates satellites and rockets for operation in sun-synchronous orbit, addressing terrestrial data centre limitations.