AGP Executive Report
Last update: 30 minutes agoElectric Aviation: COMAC’s 19-seat CE-25A completed its first piloted flight in Shandong, carrying two pilots and a flight-test engineer. It is designed for a 400-kilometer range, but still needs certification before commercial service. Cargo Drones: China’s W5000, billed as the world’s largest unmanned cargo aircraft, completed a technical verification flight in Inner Mongolia. It is designed to carry up to five tonnes. AI Chips: US lawmakers are advancing tighter export controls and anti-diversion measures amid scrutiny of Nvidia chip sales routed through Singapore. Megaspeed says Alice Huang left the company in 2025; Singapore says she was not investigated for espionage. Biotech: A Chinese-developed weight-loss drug, ribupatide, helped trial participants lose an average 17.7% of their body weight over 11 months. The results are promising, but it has not been directly compared with leading drugs. Separately, the FDA rejected a China-invented lung cancer drug, citing a lack of significant overall-survival benefit in the trial supporting its application. Homegrown Computing: Chinese startup Anatrix says its new analog chip solved a matrix equation in under 100 nanoseconds in tests, with potential uses in AI, robotics and wireless networks.
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