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China extends travel restrictions to AI talent families

Rank
Ran: 37h
Updated: 6d ago
Closed
Outlets: 6
Regions: 3
Countries: 6
Languages: 4

Bloomberg United States · English 28 Sept, 08:43 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · +2 languages

Read at Bloomberg

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 28 Sept, 08:43 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Liberty Times.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 19:15 UTC.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 34%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%

First movers

Bloomberg 28 Sept, 08:43 UTC
Infobae +7h 11m
Liberty Times +10h 32m
NV +11h 30m
The Japan Times +13h 29m

Last to join

El Mundo 29 Sept, 22:05 UTC
The Japan Times 28 Sept, 22:13 UTC
NV 28 Sept, 20:14 UTC
Liberty Times 28 Sept, 19:15 UTC
Infobae 28 Sept, 15:54 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Japan, Taiwan. Europe 2: Spain, Ukraine. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 28 Sept 2026, 08:43 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 22:05 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, China. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by China restringe viajes a familiares de ejecutivos de IA por razones de seguridad. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

28 Sept 2026 258 3.90 4 4 4 4 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 09:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 22:05 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

Bloomberg United States 29 Sept, 04:52 UTC
China Tightens Travel Rules for Families of AI Talent
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent and Families 29 Sept, 03:19 UTC
- China Broadens Travel Curbs to Encompass Family of Top AI Talent 28 Sept, 08:43 UTC
Infobae Argentina 28 Sept, 15:54 UTC
China extendió a las familias las restricciones de viaje para sus principales talentos de inteligencia artificial

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

The Japan Times Japan 28 Sept, 22:13 UTC
Beijing broadens travel curbs to encompass family of top AI talent in China
Liberty Times Taiwan 28 Sept, 19:15 UTC
防關鍵技術流向海外彭博：中國擴大民間AI人才出境限制禁令擴及家屬

Covered by 6 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 2 outlets