Chinese state media reported today that DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration under China’s interim AI export rules and carried on releasing open weights and licensing overseas. It is being shared as regulatory approval. It is a filing, it comes from one source, and it partly answers the question we left open last week.
China published draft export controls today covering 23 AI technologies, and the open-weight world spent the afternoon working out whether the models it depends on are about to stop appearing. The proposed size threshold answers most of that. It sits around 280 times above the image model we checked on launch day.
Micro Center has started asking RTX 5090 buyers for a government photo ID and a signed declaration naming where the card will be installed. It is not a law, it is not confirmed at every store, and the headlines are not saying either of those things. Here is what is actually documented, and what it does to the buy-or-rent decision we published last week.