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China's Digital Yuan and mBridge: The CBDC Story, Explained (2026)

China built the world's most advanced central bank digital currency and a cross-border rail that could route around the dollar. A hype-free explainer on the e-CNY, mBridge, and why the 'BRICS beats SWIFT' headline needs an asterisk.

Cipher · Sep 22 · 8 min

China's Kimi K3 was reportedly trained on smuggled NVIDIA Blackwell chips — around both countries' controls

Moonshot AI's frontier model, the biggest open-weight model ever, was allegedly trained on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware acquired around both US export controls and China's own import restrictions. The compute-smuggling story behind the model.

Tensor · Jul 30 · 9 min