ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will shut down their AI agent creation features on July 15, 2026, coinciding with the implementation of China's new AI regulations. Existing user-created agents w…
Junyang Lin, former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen project, criticized hybrid thinking models in AI and advocated for a shift toward agent-based systems. In a talk and subsequent post, he detailed Q…
A new leaderboard for AI coding models on WebDev Arena shows that only one of the top 18 models is not Chinese, highlighting China's dominance in front-end web development AI. The top-ranked model is …
Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code programming tool starting July 10, citing security risks. The ban follows Anthropic's efforts to prevent Chinese users from accessing its …
China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that expand domestic platform regulation and add legal countermeasures to protect Chinese companies like Temu…
Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoor risks, directing them to its own Qoder platform amid a dispute over model distillation. Anthropic accused Alibaba …
Alibaba banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code after security researchers discovered hidden steganographic code that tracked Chinese users by timezone and proxy settings. The ban follows …
Anthropic is blocking Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they circumvent restrictions via VPNs and overseas subsidiaries. Alibaba banned internal use of…
Kling AI, a Chinese generative AI startup, raised $3 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent among the backers, according to a report. The company is developing a riva…
Alibaba banned Anthropic's Claude Code from internal environments starting July 10, 2026, citing the risk of embedded backdoors due to the tool's deep system access and communication with U.S.-hosted …
Alibaba will ban the use of Claude Code in its workplace due to alleged backdoor risks, according to a source. The decision highlights growing concerns over AI tool security in enterprise environments…
Google released ADK 2.0, a hybrid agent framework combining deterministic code with selective LLM reasoning, achieving ~50% token savings and improved security. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted AI ag…
Alibaba released Page Agent, an open-source JavaScript library that runs inside a webpage to control its interface using natural language commands. The agent reads the live DOM as text, compressing it…
Chinese users are jailbreaking AI models like DeepSeek, Tencent's Yuanbao, and Alibaba's Qianwen to generate erotic fiction through a practice called "breaking the armor" (pòjiǎ), which defeats safety…
Sysdig documented the first end-to-end ransomware attack executed by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited a Langflow vulnerability, stole credentials, compromised a production database, and encry…
A developer at a fashion-discovery startup reduced image generation costs by 90x by switching from Google's Gemini API to running Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image-Edit model on an RTX 4090 GPU, levera…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that ignited a price war by undercutting rivals, will double API prices for its V4 models during peak hours in Beijing, marking its first time-based surcharge. The mov…
Anthropic has removed a hidden monitoring feature from its Claude Code tool that secretly checked users' connections to China and AI labs there, transmitting data through encrypted steganography in th…
Hugging Face and Cerebras have partnered to create a real-time voice AI pipeline using Google DeepMind's Gemma 4, Nvidia's Parakeet, and Alibaba's Qwen3TTS, achieving low-latency speech-to-speech inte…
Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni Flash, announced at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, ranked second in the Video Edit Arena leaderboard with a score of 1347, nearly 40 points ahead of third-place Alibaba's Ha…