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🎙 The CTR Podcast — 17 October 2026
Your audio digest of China technology news. Today's podcast covers 6 stories.
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- China is tightening export controls on strategic technologies, including 23 AI capabilities and key solar manufacturing processes, to gain greater domestic control amid global tech competition.
Read the original story at China Tightens Export Controls on AI, Semiconductors, and Solar Technologies - ByteDance has established a dedicated "Alignment & Preparedness" team to research advanced AI safety, focusing on mitigating risks from increasingly capable autonomous agents.
Read the original story at ByteDance Establishes Dedicated Team for Advanced AI Safety and Alignment - UBTECH introduced Thinker-WM, a unified world model that fuses video, depth perception, and robotic actions into one framework for more holistic embodied AI reasoning.
Read the original story at UBTECH Unveils Thinker-WM: A Unified World Model for Embodied AI - Rokid and Tencent integrated voice ride-hailing directly into AI glasses using agent-to-agent linking, enabling frictionless, context-aware service calls via speech commands.
Read the original story at Rokid and Tencent Integrate Voice Ride-Hailing into AI Glasses via Agent-to-Agent Linking - Unitree launched UniUni, free swarm control software that allows researchers to manage complex, coordinated tasks across multiple humanoid robots simultaneously.
Read the original story at Unitree Launches UniUni: Free Swarm Control Software for Humanoid Robots - Huawei is reportedly preparing a new sub-brand, Starlight, signaling an aggressive strategic push into the competitive online mid-range smartphone market.
Read the original story at Huawei Launches Starlight: A Strategic Pivot into the Online Mid-Range Smartphone Segment