Policy · Saturday 17 October 2026 · story 2
China proposes AI export controls for models, agents and malware tools
THE DECODER reports that China published draft AI export rules for 23 technologies, from frontier models and agents to self-directed malware tools. It says controls cover models trained on China's important data or ones at 2 trillion parameters, 10^26 FLOPs, or a global top-10 ranking.
Why it matters. Teams deploying Chinese models or agents abroad may need export registration and licenses for local server installs under the draft rules.
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