October 2026

Wealthy Chinese move offshore money to U.S. banks as Beijing's tax net widens (LINK) — 22 October 2026

US: DHS Orders Chinese AI tool DeepSeek removed from civilian federal systems (ground news LINK) — 20 October 2026

China economy grows thanks to AI export boom but domestic slump remains a drag (LINK) — 19 October 2026

China's R&D spending keeps up steady rise as No 1 US seeks further funding cuts (LINK) — 17 October 2026

China moves to curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks (ground news LINK) — 16 October 2026

Al Jazeera: China is buying up gold — shift away from reliance on US dollar assets, experts say (LINK) — 16 October 2026

China suspected in cyberattack on Swiss state-owned space company Beyond Gravity (LINK) — 15 October 2026

— Neither the company itself nor the Federal Department of Defense (VBS) – which is investigating the attack alongside the Federal Office for Cybersecurity — wants to officially confirm the suspicion that China is behind it.

Guardian: Forget 'superintelligence': error-prone AI nearly sparked World War Three this month: almost brought the US into war with China (LINK) — 1 October 2026

— CNN report published on 18 September, which hasn't been verified by other major outlets, says due to government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent. An intelligence report that claimed a chinese ship was transporting components of nuclear weapons. Military personnel made plans to intercept the Chinese vessel, complete with aircraft and soldiers ready to board the ship. A military skirmish of this kind between China and the US could quickly escalate and spiral into world war three. It was only moments before executing on the plan that American officials further investigated the intelligence report and found that it had been generated with the use of a chatbot and contained erroneous information about the vessel's contents.