China‑based authorities have issued a public warning about alleged underwater surveillance, with the Ministry of State Security saying foreign intelligence agencies used "spy turtles" and "spy fish" fitted with electronic devices, the ministry said on its WeChat account.
The MSS also pointed to a new type of wave glider, described as wave and solar powered, plus drifting buoys and other unmanned systems that it said could transmit maritime environmental data and vessel movements, the ministry said.
The ministry framed the discoveries as part of an "invisible secret war" beneath coastal waters and said such oceanographic data could be used to map the seabed and support military activities, the MSS said, while adding it has not released locations or timing for the discoveries.
Chinese social media reacted with a mix of concern and skepticism, with some users questioning how marine animals could be effective intelligence platforms, and others treating the warnings as evidence of sophisticated surveillance techniques, the MSS posting drew attention online.
Tech Sales And Energy Demand Show Economic Strain And Strategic Choices
Nvidia is attempting to re‑enter the Chinese market by taking orders for its first standalone CPU, the Vera processor, Reuters reported, even as the company acknowledged its market share in China had fallen to effectively zero last October, Jensen Huang said.
The chip could ship as early as August, people familiar with the discussions told Reuters, and at least one major Chinese cloud provider plans to order more than 300 servers, each with two Vera processors, for initial testing, a source said.
Vera is built on Arm architecture and Nvidia says it is 1.8 times faster than comparable x86 processors on workloads tied to autonomous AI agents, the company said, a segment that currently faces fewer export restrictions than high‑end AI accelerators.
Pricing may hinder adoption because a single Vera processor costs north of $20,000 before discounts and a full 256‑chip rack can cost about $10 million depending on memory, SemiAnalysis estimated, while Chinese buyers reportedly plan some deployments outside China for political sensitivity.
At the same time China–s fuel consumption is falling, complicating longer term oil demand forecasts, Reuters and Oilprice.com reported, with Sinopec gasoline sales down 8 percent year on year in April and diesel sales down 6 percent in the same month.
Goldman Sachs estimated consumption of gasoline and related products may have fallen by as much as 20 percent, the coverage said, while May crude imports plunged 29 percent to 7.8 million barrels per day, the lowest in eight years, Reuters noted.
Shifts in transport and energy use are visible, the China Charging Alliance reported a 69 percent rise in EV charging volumes in April, and rail travel rose roughly 10 percent in March and April, while refiners cut runs and reduced fuel exports to preserve domestic stocks.
Analysts and companies flagged uncertainty about whether these trends will persist because refiners can only draw on inventories for so long and Beijing has been steering buyers toward domestic chipmakers, the reporting said.
