Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…

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China-made CXMT memory now supports faster speeds on MSI’s AMD motherboards — new BIOS adds DDR5-8200 validation on dual-DIMM, DDR5-7200 on quad-DIMM models

The test BIOS comes from MSI China — there’s no announcement on global channels for some reason, and it’s only available for select motherboards at the moment. MSI tested region-bound retail kits from Lexar and KingBank …

DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent

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Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…