China now makes the families of AI chiefs ask before flying out.
Bloomberg reported on Monday that Beijing extended its travel approval rules to relatives of senior AI staff. Spouses and children of certain AI and chip executives must now get permission before any trip abroad. Beijing first required this of staff at firms like Alibaba and DeepSeek in May.
Why it mattersChina is treating model builders like nuclear engineers, with their households inside the security perimeter. That makes it harder for foreign labs to recruit the people building your cheap models.
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