China AI Bulletin 5 - by Emmie Hine - China AI Bulletin

Developments from 20/5/26-3/6/26

Welcome to Issue 5 of the China AI Bulletin, the latest on AI governance, development, and safety in China. Today’s highlights: Xi Jinping mentioned technological loss of control in a newly published speech, SAMR and NDRC open a new AI metrology track to support evals, MiniMax ships M3 as its first major flagship this year, and Shanghai AI Lab releases AgentDoG 1.5 as a training-free guardrail for agent safety. Editor’s note: I’ll be in DC next week (June 8-11). If anyone working on China-related AI governance would like to meet up, feel free to reach out! Number of the week: $200 million…

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