China ordered Meta to divest its acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese founders, effective immediately on April 27. The move signals Beijing's tightening control over foreign investment in domestic AI and may deter Chinese entrepreneurs from seeking overseas partnerships.

DeepSeek released a preview of its next-generation model adapted for Huawei chip architecture on April 24, demonstrating China's push toward semiconductor independence. The release positions DeepSeek to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google while circumventing U.S. chip restrictions.

Anthropic made Claude Mythos Preview available to 11 selected organizations on April 7 for identifying and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The limited preview gates access to the next-generation model and focuses deployment on high-value enterprise use cases.

Tencent launched Hy3, an open-source mixture-of-experts model, in late April after less than three months from training cold start—unusually rapid for a frontier model. The efficiency breakthrough and accelerated timeline suggest competitive pressure in the Chinese LLM market intensifying.