{
  "id": 20096930,
  "title": "Can Chinese AI companies curb cyber risks from open-weight models without losing their edge?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/can-chinese-ai-companies-curb-cyber-risks-from-open-weight-models",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-15T02:00:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3374332/can-chinese-ai-companies-curb-cyber-risks-open-weight-models-without-losing-their-edge"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Leading Chinese artificial intelligence companies are beginning to limit the cybersecurity capabilities of their advanced open-weight models following several high-profile hacking incidents. SCMP Tech reports that Tencent Holdings recently removed cyber-hacking capabilities from its latest Hy4 model.\n\nDespite U.S. export controls on high-end AI accelerator chips, research from UnemploymentLabs suggests that Chinese firms are still accessing Nvidia Blackwell hardware to train models. According to The Register and Tom's Hardware, forensic evidence indicates that companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group have used these chips to develop models such as DeepSeek V4 and Kimi K3.1. While the research identifies hardware signatures within the models, UnemploymentLabs notes it does not prove export controls were broken or reveal how the chips were accessed, as renting hardware abroad is not currently illegal.\n\nAI entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee told Fortune Daily that U.S. restrictions have pushed Chinese developers to build competitive models using fewer resources. Lee estimates that these Chinese open-weight models are currently only six to 12 months behind those produced by major American firms like OpenAI and Anthropic.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "‘Chinese companies are born to make money’: AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on the 3 biggest myths about China’s AI race efforts",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/chinese-companies-are-born-to-make-money-ai-pioneer-kai-fu-lee-on-the",
        "published": "2026-11-13T21:53:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}