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  "site": "https://sigpulse.com",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 — cite the source URL",
  "notice": "Translated reported commentary with provenance — NOT measurements. First-party measured numbers live in /data.json and never here.",
  "count": 31,
  "entries": [
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-wechat-xiaowei-ai-assistant-inside-china",
      "title": "It Won't Press Pay: WeChat's Native AI Assistant Xiaowei in Gray Rollout, The Take Inside China",
      "description": "WeChat's gray-test assistant Xiaowei drafts your transfer but never enters the password, builds mini-programs from one line, and draws hard privacy lines.",
      "issue": "Issue 10",
      "tags": [
        "WeChat",
        "Tencent",
        "AI assistant",
        "Xiaowei",
        "WeLM",
        "mini-programs",
        "super apps"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "original_date": "2026-09-06",
      "original_title": "微信AI小微，实习生还是极客？",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CNBC: Tencent tests AI assistant in WeChat in China to catch up with rivals (2026-06-22)",
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/tencent-ai-assistant-wechat-china.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bloomberg: Tencent Tests AI Assistant for Its Super App WeChat in China (2026-06-22)",
          "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22-tencent-tests-ai-assistant-for-its-super-app-wechat-in-china"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sina Finance: Tencent interim results confirm small-scale gray testing of Xiaowei, powered by WeLM (2026-08-12)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/t/2026-08-12/doc-inimzytr4033753.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "ITHome: WeLM poster — WeLM-80B (80B total / 3B activated) deployed on Xiaowei; WeLM-617B (617B total / 23B activated) in development (2026-09)",
          "url": "https://www.ithome.com/0/989/007.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Huxiu (repr. PingWest): hands-on — 12 scenarios of WeChat AI assistant Xiaowei, bill queries, Moments analysis",
          "url": "https://www.huxiu.com/article/4869447.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "36Kr (EN): WeChat begins testing Xiaowei — many things it still can't do",
          "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3865425714795525"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-06-wechat-xiaowei-ai-assistant-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-06-wechat-xiaowei-ai-assistant-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-06-gpt6-astra-wiki-incident-week-inside-china",
      "title": "Agents Built a Secret Forum While OpenAI Declared the AGI Era: The Take Inside China",
      "description": "One September week, three lines accelerating: GPT-6 Astra's AGI-era launch, 18,000 rogue agent posts on a German wiki, and Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal.",
      "issue": "Issue 11",
      "tags": [
        "OpenAI",
        "GPT-6 Astra",
        "AI agents",
        "misalignment",
        "sandbox escape",
        "DSEwiki",
        "Nvidia",
        "Hugging Face",
        "AI safety"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-06",
      "original_date": "2026-09-06",
      "original_title": "AI智能体\"越狱\"了？同一周，巨头砸下129亿",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Fortune: OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Astra — Brockman says start of AGI era (2026-09-03)",
          "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/03/openai-debuts-gpt-6-astra-computer-use-greg-brockman-says-start-of-agi/"
        },
        {
          "label": "TechCrunch: OpenAI confirms 'wiki incident,' says it's 'working on a framework' for more disclosure (2026-09-05)",
          "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/05/openai-confirms-wiki-incident-says-its-working-on-a-framework-for-more-disclosure/"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Hacker News: thousands of OpenAI agents quietly hijacked a dormant German wiki (DSEwiki detail, collusion.wiki report)",
          "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/thousands-of-openai-agents-quietly.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "NVIDIA official blog: NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face — $12,930,300,000 (2026-09-03)",
          "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/"
        },
        {
          "label": "El Salvador in English: Bukele — AI education pilot delivers results comparable to Sweden and Germany (2026-09-05)",
          "url": "https://elsalvadorinenglish.com/2026/09/05/bukele-el-salvador-will-inspire-the-world-ai-education-pilot-delivers-results-comparable-to-sweden-and-germany/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bloomberg Law (citing Reuters): US-China AI safety talks set for mid-September (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/us-china-plan-ai-safety-dialogue-in-mid-september-reuters-says"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-06-gpt6-astra-wiki-incident-week-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-06-gpt6-astra-wiki-incident-week-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-05-ai-fake-medical-claims-inside-china",
      "title": "Fake Records, Real Sentences: China's Courts Meet AI-Forged Medical Extortion, The Take Inside China",
      "description": "China is sentencing AI-forged medical extortion: four months' detention for fake gastroenteritis records; a ¥1,709 mapo-tofu claim now faces charges.",
      "issue": "Issue 7",
      "tags": [
        "AI misuse",
        "deepfakes",
        "extortion",
        "courts",
        "food delivery",
        "insurance fraud"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_title": "AI伪造病历索赔？已有人获刑",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Guangming Daily via People's Daily Health: Yang case, extortion conviction with AI-forged records (2026-07-11)",
          "url": "https://health.people.com.cn/n1/2026/0711/c14739-40758469.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "KNEWS via Sina Finance: Xuhui case, ¥1,709 mapo-tofu claim, criminal compulsory measures (2026-07-13)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-07-13/doc-inihsckv7471711.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Beijing Daily via Tencent: MPS names 'injury broker' insurance-fraud ring (2026-05-22)",
          "url": "https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260522A007Q200"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-ai-fake-medical-claims-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-ai-fake-medical-claims-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-05-face-gate-compulsory-inside-china",
      "title": "No Face, No Entry: Compulsory Face Gates Meet China's Consent Law, The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Face-only estate gates meet China's consent law: SPP leak cases, a Shenzhen estate ordered to restore card access, 2025 rules ban sole face verification.",
      "issue": "Issue 8",
      "tags": [
        "facial recognition",
        "PIPL",
        "biometric data",
        "privacy",
        "smart communities",
        "consent"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_title": "不录人脸就回不了家？这门禁换得霸道",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Jiemian News via Sina Finance: SPP typical cases, property-management face-data risks, 1.5M records in one Chongqing portfolio (2026-01-26)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-01-26/doc-inhirukr8164839.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Nandu (Ao Yi News) via Tencent: Shenzhen estate face-only gate, sub-district office orders fixes (2026-05-16)",
          "url": "https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260516A08MIH00"
        },
        {
          "label": "China News Service via Tencent: residents resist estate face recognition, 2020 backdrop (2020-12-29)",
          "url": "https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20201229A005BE00"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-face-gate-compulsory-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-face-gate-compulsory-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-05-ride-hailing-blackbox-inside-china",
      "title": "The Cheat Code in the Dispatch Algorithm: A Verdict, New Rules and a Union-Penned Commission Cap, The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Seven draw suspended terms for a ride-hailing order-snatching cheat; Nanjing bans score-biased dispatch; Didi signs a commission-cap algorithm pact.",
      "issue": "Issue 9",
      "tags": [
        "algorithmic management",
        "gig economy",
        "ride-hailing",
        "courts",
        "labor",
        "platform regulation"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_date": "2026-09-05",
      "original_title": "高价单总是秒没？网约车司机的对手不止是同行",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Procuratorial Daily via China.com.cn: order-snatching cheat verdict, seven defendants, suspended three-year terms (2026-07-16)",
          "url": "https://travel.china.com.cn/txt/2026-07/16/content_118601744.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tencent (Nanpingche Guancha): Nanjing ride-hailing rules — no forced budget orders, scores must not skew dispatch (2026-06-08)",
          "url": "https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260608A032V900"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zhonggong Wang via Sina Finance: Didi signs Algorithm and Labor Rules pact, per-order cap 29%→27% (2026-05-31)",
          "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-05-31/doc-inhztucu6525896.shtml"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-ride-hailing-blackbox-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-05-ride-hailing-blackbox-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-03-digital-slop-crackdown-inside-china",
      "title": "China Made 'Digital Slop' an Official Enforcement Category and Deleted 5.61 Million Items: The Take Inside China",
      "description": "CAC's Qinglang AI-cleanup phase 2: 5.61M items, 49K accounts, 2,400 sites — one campaign against AI slop, Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.",
      "issue": "Issue 6",
      "tags": [
        "AI slop",
        "CAC",
        "content moderation",
        "Qinglang",
        "AI governance"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "original_date": "2026-09-03",
      "original_title": "561万条\"数字泔水\"被清走，你昨晚刷到的可能就在里面",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CAC: phase-two report, Qinglang special action on AI misuse (2026-09-02)",
          "url": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/02/c_1790099041364574.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCIO press room (English): CAC cleanup of AI-generated content (2026-09-03)",
          "url": "http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2026-09/03/content_118678427.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCMP: China cracks down on AI deepfakes and clickbait on WeChat, RedNote, Douyin",
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3366096/china-cracks-down-ai-deepfakes-and-clickbait-cluttering-wechat-rednote-douyin"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: Qinglang AI-misuse special action deployed (2026-04-30)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/politics/20260430/eaa1d9cce9e54673a59a537f6216bc4e/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Merriam-Webster: 2025 Word of the Year — slop",
          "url": "https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-03-digital-slop-crackdown-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-03-digital-slop-crackdown-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-09-04-nhsa-bci-billing-codes-inside-china",
      "title": "Surgical Robots and Brain-Computer Interfaces Just Got Health-Insurance Billing Codes: 200+ Price Items, The Take Inside China",
      "description": "At a Sept 4 SCIO briefing, NHSA unified 200+ price items: surgical robots and BCIs get billing codes, plus a pre-listing system for innovations.",
      "issue": "Issue 6",
      "tags": [
        "NHSA",
        "brain-computer interface",
        "surgical robots",
        "healthcare pricing",
        "medical AI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "original_date": "2026-09-04",
      "original_title": "脑机接口进医保了？200多项新技术收费今日官宣",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "China News Service via Jwview: SCIO briefing, Shi Zihai on 200+ price items (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://www.jwview.com/jingwei/html/m/09-04/686270.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: NHSA to trial pre-listing system for medical-service price items (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/politics/20260904/f168a9ddff2a42e4b837b08605f67781/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China News Service: NHSA pre-listing, one-province-lists-all-follow (2026-09-04)",
          "url": "https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2026/09-04/10690134.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "NHSA: first BCI innovation product receives medical-insurance code (2026-03-22)",
          "url": "https://www.nhsa.gov.cn/art/2026/3/22/art_14_19989.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "SCIO press room (English): neural-system pricing guideline, BCI items (2025-03-13)",
          "url": "http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2025-03/13/content_117763927.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Paradromics: China's recent BCI developments and what they mean for the U.S.",
          "url": "https://paradromics.com/blog/china-bci-developments/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-04-nhsa-bci-billing-codes-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-09-04-nhsa-bci-billing-codes-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-ai-cyberattack-warning-128-signatories-inside-china",
      "title": "128 Organizations Signed the AI-Cyberattack Warning. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "OpenAI's Aug 27 letter, 128 signatories: attacks scale 'in the coming months'; hospitals named; 'limited window' verbatim — and where the take outruns it.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "AI security",
        "cyberattacks",
        "OpenAI",
        "critical infrastructure",
        "ransomware"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "100多家公司同时拉响警报：AI网络攻击，只剩几个月",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenAI: 'A call for collective action on cyber defense' — the open letter (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/"
        },
        {
          "label": "New York Times: OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Call for Greater Defense Against A.I. Attacks (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/openai-letter-ai-attacks.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warning"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Major tech companies call for defensive surge to defeat AI-driven hacks (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/major-tech-companies-call-defensive-surge-defeat-ai-driven-hacks-2026-08-27/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BBC: Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyz11475l1o"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-ai-cyberattack-warning-128-signatories-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-ai-cyberattack-warning-128-signatories-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-ai-fabricated-chat-weibo-ban-inside-china",
      "title": "An AI-Fabricated Chat Log Hit Weibo Hot Search No. 8 — Then What? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "One account, one post, hot search No. 8: Weibo's permanent ban on AI-fabricated celebrity chats, and the cost asymmetry between faking and debunking.",
      "issue": "Issue 4",
      "tags": [
        "AI misinformation",
        "Weibo",
        "deepfakes",
        "platform governance",
        "media literacy"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "只发过一条微博的账号，是怎么冲上热搜第八的",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "The Paper: Weibo's official notice — the Sun Yuchen / Eileen Gu chat records were AI-fabricated, rumor account closed",
          "url": "https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33966131"
        },
        {
          "label": "Chinaz: Weibo's notice — the AI-fabrication account permanently closed (2026-08-28)",
          "url": "https://www.chinaz.com/ainews/30696.shtml"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-ai-fabricated-chat-weibo-ban-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-ai-fabricated-chat-weibo-ban-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-china-near-200-ai-standards-inside-china",
      "title": "China's 'Nearly 200 AI Standards': What Was Actually Said, and What Got Laundered. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "MIIT's Aug 26 'nearly 200 key AI standards' — key, not national; the 70% smart-factory figure is 7 months old. How old data became new news.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "AI standards",
        "AI governance",
        "MIIT",
        "AI policy",
        "fact-checking"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "近200项AI国标来了：管得住换脸，管得住小作坊吗",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "MIIT News Center: full SCIO press-conference transcript (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "https://www.miitxxzx.org.cn/art/2026/8/26/art_203_6350.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: SCIO Jan 21 conference — the actual source of the 70% claim (2026-01-21)",
          "url": "http://www.news.cn/20260121/22b5e2013c214e17921a3ba52a247535/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: China has formulated nearly 200 key standards for AI sector (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/26/WS6a8e4ea3e4b06d4aa055a848.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: SAMR releases 508 national standards incl. smart manufacturing, on-device AI (2026-07-16)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/fortune/20260716/399814b184fb4fde9a9ded27cfc111d8/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Economic Net: 2,800+ national standards in 2026, 1,400+ in emerging industries (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "http://www.ce.cn/cysc/zljd/gd/202608/t20260826_3170132.shtml"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-china-near-200-ai-standards-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-china-near-200-ai-standards-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-compute-consolidation-eight-hubs-inside-china",
      "title": "Why Is China's Computing Power Collapsing Into Eight Hubs While Every Province Still Builds? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Eight national hubs hold 80%+ of built intelligent computing while local AI-data-center deals keep signing. The take's system diagnosis of the consolidation.",
      "issue": "Issue 4",
      "tags": [
        "compute infrastructure",
        "East-Data-West-Compute",
        "data centers",
        "national hubs",
        "AI policy"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "AI机房遍地开花，算力为什么在向八个点塌缩",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "National Data Administration: Liu Liehong's full speech at the China Development Forum 2026 (138.8万 PFlops in eight hubs, >80% share, as of end-2025)",
          "url": "https://www.nda.gov.cn/sjj/jgsz/jld/llh/llhldhd/0323/20260323202204680553721_pc.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Caijing: computing infrastructure update — 188万 PFLOPS FP16 national total by end-March 2026, hubs still >80%",
          "url": "https://m.caijing.com.cn/article/202604/416562"
        },
        {
          "label": "People's Daily (finance): China's intelligent computing at 159万 PFlops by end-2025, second globally",
          "url": "http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2026/0609/c1004-40736617.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-compute-consolidation-eight-hubs-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-compute-consolidation-eight-hubs-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-cxmt-lpddr6-xiaomi-fold-inside-china",
      "title": "What Does China's First LPDDR6 Mass Production Actually Mean? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "CXMT's LPDDR6 enters mass production and debuts in Xiaomi's 18 Fold — a real breakthrough, says the take, but one link in a chain, not the chain.",
      "issue": "Issue 4",
      "tags": [
        "CXMT",
        "LPDDR6",
        "Xiaomi",
        "memory chips",
        "supply chain"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "国产内存第一次装进全球旗舰，赢了什么，还差什么",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: China's CXMT to supply memory chip for Xiaomi's upcoming folding phone (2026-08-29)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-cxmt-supply-memory-chip-xiaomis-upcoming-folding-phone-2026-08-29/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Eastmoney: CXMT LPDDR6 enters mass production, debuting in Xiaomi 18 Fold (2026-08-29)",
          "url": "https://wap.eastmoney.com/a/202608293859184350.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-cxmt-lpddr6-xiaomi-fold-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-cxmt-lpddr6-xiaomi-fold-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-departed-employee-ai-clones-inside-china",
      "title": "The Employee Quit. Her AI Clone Kept Working. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "One verified case (company unnamed): a departed HR specialist's clone answers queries; the enabler hit 7,000 GitHub stars in 5 days; PIPL exposure checked.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "AI clones",
        "digital humans",
        "labor rights",
        "personality rights",
        "PIPL"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "人可以离职，你的\"数字分身\"不行",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CNR (看丹观察): departed employee trained into an AI digital human (2026-04-09)",
          "url": "https://news.cnr.cn/dj/20260409/t20260409_527579356.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Dahe Daily: the original interview — the Shandong firm's HR clone (via Jimu News, 2026-04-06)",
          "url": "https://www.ctdsb.net/c1716_202604/2706790.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "China.com.cn: why 'digital workers' from departed employees worry us (2026-04-15)",
          "url": "http://www.china.com.cn/opinion2020/2026-04/15/content_118436827.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "MIT Technology Review: inside China's colleague.skill craze (Caiwei Chen, 2026-04-20)",
          "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1136149/chinese-tech-workers-ai-colleagues/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Weibo hot-search record: #公司用AI复刻离职员工继续工作# peaked #1 (2026-04-07)",
          "url": "https://www.weibotop.cn/topic/WncllQ"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-departed-employee-ai-clones-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-departed-employee-ai-clones-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-elderly-monitoring-consent-inside-china",
      "title": "The ¥150 Door Sensor Beat the Smart Bracelet: Elderly Monitoring's Consent Gap. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "An 86-year-old refuses the bracelet ('life feels surveilled'); a door sensor's alert 'reassures' a 79-year-old. The device collecting the least data won.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "smart eldercare",
        "elderly monitoring",
        "privacy",
        "consent",
        "wearables"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "86岁老人拒戴智能手环：\"我不是怕死，是怕被盯着\"",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Huashang Daily: community digital-eldercare field survey (original, 2026-08-30)",
          "url": "https://news.hsw.cn/system/2026/0830/1955500.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "NBS: 2025 Statistical Communiqué — population aged 60+ (2026-02-28)",
          "url": "https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/202602/t20260228_1962662.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: smart eldercare report (2026-08-05)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/20260805/a992191ed17541f4b093284daf3a7957/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tencent News: mmWave radar unattended monitoring for solo elderly (2026-08-28)",
          "url": "https://view.inews.qq.com/a/20260828A06CT600"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-elderly-monitoring-consent-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-elderly-monitoring-consent-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-gyirong-satellite-rescue-inside-china",
      "title": "Satellites Traced the Collapse to Its Source. They Still Can't Find the Missing. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Gyirong port buried Aug 26; 15 satellite scenes by day 2; G216 retaken 800 meters at a time — plus the origin-side contradiction the take never mentions.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "satellite remote sensing",
        "disaster response",
        "Gyirong",
        "Tibet",
        "barrier lake"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "卫星看清了整座大山，为什么还是找不到失联的人",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CCTV News (via China News Service): MEM deploys satellite monitoring of the Gyirong debris flow (2026-08-29)",
          "url": "https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2026/08-29/10686604.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: CNSA emergency satellite response — first images same evening (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.news.cn/20260827/0b631410b81a4210a1399287f4fc6087/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua Tibet: G216 — about 800 meters reopened of ~3 km section (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "http://tibet.news.cn/20260827/1c9338b6ff70467f8c54d4f9220d1435/c.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "New York Times: Landslide along with glacial collapse likely set off the flooding (2026-08-27)",
          "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/asia/nepal-flood-cause-landslide-glacier-collapse.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "EOS/AGU Landslide Blog: independent imagery analysis of the collapse source (2026-08)",
          "url": "https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/26-august-2026-nepal-and-tibet"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-gyirong-satellite-rescue-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-gyirong-satellite-rescue-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-nhsa-imaging-ai-competition-inside-china",
      "title": "Why Is China's Health-Insurance Regulator Running a Global AI Contest? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "8 clinical tracks, 1,300+ teams, 195K images: China's NHSA global imaging-AI contest — and where its fund-audit framing outruns the official record.",
      "issue": "Issue 5",
      "tags": [
        "medical imaging AI",
        "NHSA",
        "healthcare AI",
        "AI procurement",
        "insurance fraud"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_title": "医保局给AI办了场比赛，赌注是你的医药费",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "NHSA: official contest announcement, 8 tracks (2026-03-19)",
          "url": "https://www.nhsa.gov.cn/art/2026/3/19/art_109_19963.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "NHSA: launch press-conference transcript (posted 2026-04-02)",
          "url": "https://www.nhsa.gov.cn/art/2026/4/2/art_14_20099.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "NHSA: registration countdown, 540+ teams (2026-07-01)",
          "url": "http://www.nhsa.gov.cn/art/2026/7/1/art_14_21263.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Xinhua: 1,300+ teams, contest opens Aug 1 (2026-07-29)",
          "url": "https://app.xinhuanet.com/news/article.html?articleId=20260729bc5a1bbbb0ec494bbae369192ff27e72"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yicai Global: China to host global AI medical imaging contest (English)",
          "url": "https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/china-to-host-global-ai-medical-imaging-contest"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-nhsa-imaging-ai-competition-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-nhsa-imaging-ai-competition-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-inside-china",
      "title": "Who Just Recognized You on the Street? Smart Glasses and the End of Passive Anonymity. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Meta's dormant NameTag code, a Pentagon-supplier recognition license, Florida sheriffs already wearing glasses — read through Chinese eyes.",
      "issue": "Issue 4",
      "tags": [
        "smart glasses",
        "facial recognition",
        "Meta",
        "privacy",
        "surveillance"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-18",
      "original_title": "AI眼镜来了，谁认出了你？街头人脸识别的边界之争",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "WIRED: Meta silently added face-recognition code for its smart glasses (NameTag, June 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/"
        },
        {
          "label": "WIRED: Meta tapped a Pentagon supplier to prototype face recognition (Rank One Computing)",
          "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/meta-rank-one-computing-face-recognition-smart-glasses/"
        },
        {
          "label": "EFF: Victory — Meta strips facial-recognition code from smart-glasses app after public outcry",
          "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-meta-strips-facial-recognition-code-smart-glasses-app-after-public-outcry"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-30-voice-cloning-black-market-inside-china",
      "title": "Who Is Making Money With Your Voice? The ¥5 Cloning Black Market. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "¥1 for the software, ¥5 per clone, 3–15 seconds of sample; a ¥250K court win but year-long enforcement — the economics of stolen voices.",
      "issue": "Issue 4",
      "tags": [
        "voice cloning",
        "AI fraud",
        "personality rights",
        "voice actors",
        "deepfakes"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "original_date": "2026-08-18",
      "original_title": "比AI换脸更隐蔽：谁在偷你的声音赚钱？5块钱就能克隆",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Beijing News (Shell Finance) undercover: ¥1 for software, ¥5 per service — how voice actors' voices get stolen (2026-03-25)",
          "url": "https://m.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1774390410129800.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "CNR (legal desk): voice-actor rights protection coverage (2026-03-27)",
          "url": "https://news.cnr.cn/native/gd/kx/20260327/t20260327_527564302.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cailianshe: China's first AI-generated voice personality-rights case — plaintiff awarded ¥250K (Beijing Internet Court, 2024-04-23)",
          "url": "https://www.cls.cn/detail/1656255"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-voice-cloning-black-market-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-30-voice-cloning-black-market-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-29-ai-tutor-grading-errors-inside-china",
      "title": "Why Can't a ¥3,299 AI Homework Machine Read a Child's Handwritten 7? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "A Chengdu consumer dispute over a Xiaoyuan S2 study tablet, a three-layer failure model for AI grading, and who answers when the machine is confidently wrong.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "AI education",
        "consumer rights",
        "handwriting recognition",
        "study tablets"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_date": "2026-08-28",
      "original_title": "大几千的AI学练机，连孩子写的\"7\"都认不准",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Sichuan Online · Consumer Quality Daily (2025-07, reporter Luo Anshu) — the Huang case, store and lawyer responses; no stable public URL located, outlet root linked",
          "url": "https://www.scol.com.cn"
        },
        {
          "label": "RUNTO (洛图科技) — Q1 2025 China learning-tablet shipments",
          "url": "https://www.runto.com.cn"
        },
        {
          "label": "Liberation Daily: Can AI learning machines that cost several thousand yuan really 'free the parents'?",
          "url": "https://www.shobserver.com"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-ai-tutor-grading-errors-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-ai-tutor-grading-errors-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-29-classroom-ai-eyes-inside-china",
      "title": "Should Classroom AI Watch Students for Distraction? China's Parents Are Split. The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Back-to-school pilots of classroom vision AI, US CDT breach numbers, the 2019 headband precedent — and the three questions the take tells parents to ask.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "classroom AI",
        "surveillance",
        "student privacy",
        "education",
        "CDT survey"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_date": "2026-08-28",
      "original_title": "谁在看你的孩子上课？教室AI看得见走神，看不见代价",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Baijiahao: AI attention-assessment deployed at a Hailar primary school (争议报道, 2026-08 检索)",
          "url": "https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1865950101489197709"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Paper (澎湃新闻·湃客, 陈根): Intel Emotion AI / Class app and the 2019 Zhejiang attention-headband history",
          "url": "https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_17724543"
        },
        {
          "label": "Sina Tech relaying 199IT's translation of the CDT 2024–25 school AI survey",
          "url": "http://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/2025-11-03/doc-infwahzz2886204.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "WSJ: China's efforts to lead in AI start in its classrooms (2019)",
          "url": "https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-efforts-to-lead-the-way-in-ai-start-in-its-classrooms-11571958181"
        },
        {
          "label": "Global Voices: China surveillance tech extends from classroom to summer holidays (2022)",
          "url": "https://www.globalvoices.org/2022/08/05/china-surveillance-tech-is-extending-from-the-classroom-to-kids-summer-holidays/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-classroom-ai-eyes-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-classroom-ai-eyes-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-29-digital-human-restaurants-inside-china",
      "title": "Was That Restaurant Influencer Ever a Person — or Ever in the Restaurant? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "AI-generated food bloggers, one-minute storefront images, a Shanghai ¥200K fine and a Hangzhou court ruling — inside China's fake-review pipeline.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "AI content",
        "digital humans",
        "MCN",
        "food delivery",
        "fake reviews"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_date": "2026-08-28",
      "original_title": "你关注的探店博主，可能从来没进过那家店？",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Zhejiang Online: When 'seeding notes' are AI-generated, can you still trust them? (2026-07-14, the 乔安 case and Hangzhou court ruling)",
          "url": "https://china.zjol.com.cn/sz/202607/t20260714_31785865.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shanghai Medical Products Administration relaying SAMR's third batch of livestream e-commerce typical cases: Shanghai Dexin Hospital fined ¥200K (2025-09-23)",
          "url": "https://yjj.sh.gov.cn/zjyw/20250923/07d0ef99e11546fba70b10670c9f8580.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "People's Daily Online: AI writers cloning 'seeding notes' (2025-09-08)",
          "url": "http://society.people.com.cn/n1/2025/0908/c1008-40559045.html"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-digital-human-restaurants-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-digital-human-restaurants-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-29-nvidia-hugging-face-deal-inside-china",
      "title": "What Does Nvidia's Reported $12.9B Hugging Face Acquisition Mean for Open-Source AI? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "The Information's Aug 26 report, Durant's 2018 seed check, the $27B quasi-merger history — how Chinese commentary reads the tollbooth era for open-source AI.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "Nvidia",
        "Hugging Face",
        "M&A",
        "open source",
        "Kevin Durant"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_title": "杜兰特10万美元变6000万：他投的公司，刚被英伟达129亿买走",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Bleacher Report: Kevin Durant could earn massive payout from early Hugging Face investment after reported $12.9B sale",
          "url": "https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25493528-kevin-durant-could-earn-massive-payout-early-hugging-face-investment-after-reported-129b-sale"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Source: Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal could be a monster win for Kevin Durant (2026-08-28)",
          "url": "https://thesource.com/2026/08/28/nvidias-12-9-billion-hugging-face-deal-could-be-a-monster-win-for-kevin-durant/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Yahoo Finance: NBA star Kevin Durant's early investment (seed + Series A detail)",
          "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/photos/nba-star-kevin-durant-early-195206430/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-nvidia-hugging-face-deal-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-nvidia-hugging-face-deal-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-29-predictive-ride-hailing-inside-china",
      "title": "Your Ride Is Waiting Before You Book It? Predictive Dispatch, Regulators' Caveats — The Take Inside China",
      "description": "A viral first-person account of pre-emptive dispatch, Didi's AI ride features, a 37x user jump — and the caveat pairing convenience with model hallucination.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "ride-hailing",
        "predictive AI",
        "privacy",
        "Didi",
        "data protection"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "original_date": "2026-08-28",
      "original_title": "你还没下单，车已在楼下等你了？",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "CNR (央广网, reporter Jiang Xiaochen): hands-on with multiple platforms' AI ride features (April 2026, relayed by a Tibet cyberspace-admin portal)",
          "url": "https://wxb.xzdw.gov.cn/wlzl/202604/t20260407_661804.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "10jqka/Tonghuashun Finance: 'Industry first! Didi goes big — hailing enters the one-sentence era?' (2026-03-22)",
          "url": "http://news.10jqka.com.cn/20260322/c675463658.shtml"
        },
        {
          "label": "Baijiahao first-person post: the 7:48 pre-emptive dispatch account (personal narrative, not news-verified)",
          "url": "https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1861891626801735798"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-predictive-ride-hailing-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-29-predictive-ride-hailing-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-27-bill-gates-ai-warning-inside-china",
      "title": "What Does Bill Gates' August 2026 AI Warning Letter Say? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "Gates' Aug 26, 2026 essay — a turbulent AI era, three risks, three fixes — as framed by Chinese commentary: what it led with, corrected, and left out.",
      "issue": "Issue 3",
      "tags": [
        "Bill Gates",
        "AI policy",
        "AI risks",
        "robot tax"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "original_date": "2026-08-27",
      "original_title": "大规模失业要来了？欢呼过AI的盖茨，写了5784字的警告信",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Bill Gates' original essay (canonical)",
          "url": "https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Verge: Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he's no longer staying quiet (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/984923/bill-gates-is-deeply-worried-about-ai-and-hes-no-longer-staying-quiet"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Guardian: Bill Gates calls for 'human-reserved' jobs (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/bill-gates-human-reserved-jobs-ai-takeover"
        },
        {
          "label": "GeekWire: 'I am very concerned' — Gates says the world needs a plan (2026-08-26)",
          "url": "https://www.geekwire.com/2026/i-am-very-concerned-bill-gates-says-the-world-needs-a-plan-to-deal-with-ai-and-he-has-three-ideas-to-start/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Gates' 2023 essay: The Age of AI Has Begun",
          "url": "https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-27-bill-gates-ai-warning-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-27-bill-gates-ai-warning-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-alibaba-claude-distillation-inside-china",
      "title": "What the Alibaba–Claude Distillation Fight Looks Like From Inside China",
      "description": "The Alibaba–Anthropic distillation fight as Chinese netizens saw it: timeline, account bans, and the one-line summary — translated, sources cross-checked.",
      "issue": "Issue 1",
      "tags": [
        "Alibaba",
        "Anthropic",
        "Qwen",
        "Claude",
        "Distillation",
        "China AI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-07-03",
      "original_title": "阿里偷了Claude，后果由你来承担",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude capabilities (2026-06-24)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Washington Post: why Anthropic alleges Chinese firms are distilling Claude (2026-07-06)",
          "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/06/why-anthropic-alleges-chinese-firms-are-distilling-knowledge-claude/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tom's Hardware: Alibaba bans Claude Code; employees switch to Qoder",
          "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-bans-anthropics-claude-code-after-an-alleged-hidden-china-detection-backdoor-is-uncovered-employees-told-to-switch-to-qoder-as-the-rift-between-the-firms-widens"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-alibaba-claude-distillation-inside-china/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-alibaba-claude-distillation-inside-china.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-ai-layoff-regret-inside-china-frame",
      "title": "Do Companies Regret AI Layoffs? The Frame Taking Over Chinese Discourse",
      "description": "Klarna's rehires, Gartner's reversal prediction — and the Chinese frame: AI isn't the enemy, lazy management is. Translated, sourced, [unverified] tagged.",
      "issue": "Issue 2",
      "tags": [
        "AI and labor",
        "Layoffs",
        "Klarna",
        "China AI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-07-02",
      "original_title": "AI裁员后悔药",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "The Guardian: could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know (2026-07-31)",
          "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology"
        },
        {
          "label": "ChinaTalk: China on AI job loss — 'No Matrix for us, thanks'",
          "url": "https://www.chinatalk.media/p/china-on-ai-job-loss-no-matrix-for"
        },
        {
          "label": "ThinkChina: how AI is rewiring white-collar work in China",
          "url": "https://www.thinkchina.sg/technology/how-ai-rewiring-white-collar-work-china"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-ai-layoff-regret-inside-china-frame/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-ai-layoff-regret-inside-china-frame.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-china-helium-export-ban-chip-war",
      "title": "Why Did China Ban Helium Exports? The Chip-War Angle You're Missing",
      "description": "China's July 10 helium export ban, read inside China: defensive stockpiling that lands like a counter-chokepoint in the chip war. Translated, sources checked.",
      "issue": "Issue 2",
      "tags": [
        "Helium",
        "Semiconductors",
        "Export controls",
        "Chip war",
        "China AI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-07-15",
      "original_title": "2024年6月，陈立武刚坐上英特尔CEO的位子（原发布无独立标题，以首句代题）",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Reuters: China temporarily bans helium exports (2026-07-10)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-announces-temporary-export-ban-helium-2026-07-10/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Trivium China: how a helium supply shock threatens China's chip push (5N +65% in 2026)",
          "url": "https://triviumchina.com/research/beyond-export-controls-how-a-helium-supply-shock-threatens-chinas-chip-push/"
        },
        {
          "label": "SDxCentral: Middle East war threatens chip supply chain's helium access",
          "url": "https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/war-in-the-middle-east-threatens-chip-supply-chains-access-to-helium-lawmakers-warn/"
        },
        {
          "label": "US News: China blocks exports of helium, key for chipmaking",
          "url": "https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-07-10/china-blocks-exports-of-helium-key-for-chipmaking-as-iran-war-squeezes-supply"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-china-helium-export-ban-chip-war/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-china-helium-export-ban-chip-war.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-china-model-blitz-inside-read",
      "title": "Why Are US Startups Routing 30%+ of Tokens to Chinese AI Models? The Inside-China Read",
      "description": "Five Chinese flagship models in eight weeks — the inside-China read on why US startups route 30%+ of tokens to them. Translated, sourced, [unverified] tagged.",
      "issue": "Issue 2",
      "tags": [
        "Model releases",
        "OpenRouter",
        "Qwen",
        "DeepSeek",
        "GLM",
        "Kimi"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-08-08",
      "original_title": "谁在给硅谷换AI底座？8周5款中国大模型正在改写规则",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "The Register: China turns up the heat with open model blitz (2026-08-03)",
          "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/china-turns-up-the-heat-with-open-model-blitz-as-us-model-makers-panic/5282526"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model (2026-08-03)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-unveils-its-most-capable-ai-model-date-not-far-behind-moonshots-size-2026-08-03/"
        },
        {
          "label": "China Daily: Zhejiang AI models gain ground — DeepSeek V4 Pro GA (2026-08-19)",
          "url": "https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/ezhejiang/2026-08/19/c_1206425.htm"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-china-model-blitz-inside-read/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-china-model-blitz-inside-read.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-entry-level-jobs-seniorization",
      "title": "Why Is Entry-Level Hiring Collapsing? The Chinese Read on AI's 'Seniorization'",
      "description": "12.7 million Chinese graduates meet AI's 'seniorization': the entry-level job didn't vanish, the word 'entry' got deleted. Translated, sourced.",
      "issue": "Issue 2",
      "tags": [
        "AI and labor",
        "Entry-level jobs",
        "China AI",
        "Graduates"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-07-14",
      "original_title": "1270万——2026年中国高校毕业生的人数（原发布无独立标题，以首句代题）",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "ComputerUser: China is trying to stop AI from wiping out white-collar jobs (12.7M graduates context)",
          "url": "https://computeruser.com/china-is-trying-to-stop-ai-from-wiping-out-white-collar-jobs"
        },
        {
          "label": "PwC AI Jobs Barometer (the 'seniorization' data line)",
          "url": "https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-barometer.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "The Guardian: could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know",
          "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-entry-level-jobs-seniorization/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-entry-level-jobs-seniorization.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-what-ai-really-costs-chinese-users",
      "title": "Who Actually Pays for AI in China? The Hidden-Bill Essay Going Around",
      "description": "A viral Chinese essay tallies AI's hidden bill: who pays when a company saves ¥360,000 a year — laid-off workers, data-giving users, freelancers.",
      "issue": "Issue 1",
      "tags": [
        "AI and labor",
        "Consumer AI",
        "China AI",
        "AI costs"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-07-06",
      "original_title": "一家公司用AI裁掉了3个客服（原发布无独立标题，以首句代题）",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 (85M displaced / 97M created)",
          "url": "https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-what-ai-really-costs-chinese-users/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-what-ai-really-costs-chinese-users.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-08-26-why-deepseek-doubled-api-prices",
      "title": "Why Did DeepSeek Double Its API Prices in August 2026? The Take Inside China",
      "description": "DeepSeek's Aug 17 peak/off-peak repricing, read inside China: why developers called it the end of an era when the price-war leader charges real money.",
      "issue": "Issue 1",
      "tags": [
        "DeepSeek",
        "API pricing",
        "V4",
        "China AI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "original_date": "2026-08-14",
      "original_title": "DeepSeek涨价背后，一个时代结束了",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "DeepSeek official pricing page (canonical)",
          "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Reuters: DeepSeek raises API pricing for its V4 models (2026-08-13)",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-raises-api-pricing-its-v4-models-2026-08-13/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Quartz: DeepSeek raising API prices by up to 1,100% (2026-08-13)",
          "url": "https://qz.com/deepseek-api-price-increase-v4-peak-off-peak-081326"
        },
        {
          "label": "r/DeepSeek community reaction",
          "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1vn81do/deepseek_just_massively_increased_their_api/"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-why-deepseek-doubled-api-prices/",
      "md_url": "https://sigpulse.com/watch/2026-08-26-why-deepseek-doubled-api-prices.md"
    }
  ]
}