China's first frontier AI export controls unveiled

China's MOFCOM and MOST issued Announcement No. 48, proposing 40 new export-controlled technologies, 23 in AI, including frontier model weights, agent architectures and offensive cyber capabilities. Weights are restricted at 10^26 FLOPs of training compute, 2 trillion parameters, or a global top-10 ranking. The catalogue is open for comment until Nov. 15, but a pre-export registration requirement is already in effect.