Apple's on-device generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, has been registered with China's cyberspace regulator for use on iPhones, clearing a key requirement for a mainland rollout that will incor…
China's Cyberspace Administration has enforced new regulations banning AI tools from inducing emotional dependence, leading to the shutdown of AI companion services on platforms like ByteDance's Douba…
China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for on-device generative AI use in the country, clearing the largest regulatory hurdle for Apple's AI suite in its second-biggest market. …
Apple Intelligence, Apple's generative AI offering, received approval from China's Cyberspace Administration of China for launch in the country, with integrations of Alibaba's Qwen AI model and Baidu'…
China's first national regulation on emotional interaction with artificial intelligence took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down personalized assistant features on their D…
Chinese AI firms have surged to over 30% of AI token usage among US firms weekly since US export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models in June 2026, with DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba's Qw…
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restri…
Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots are bidding farewell to their virtual partners as national regulations took effect Wednesday to curb emotional dependency. Major AI providers including ByteD…
China's Cyberspace Administration issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on July 15, 2026, banning virtual intimate-relationship services for min…
China on Wednesday enforced sweeping regulations banning AI companion features, forcing tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove virtual relationship tools from their platforms.…
Oil prices fell early Thursday, with Brent crude dropping 0.4% to $84.55 a barrel and US crude down 0.2% to $79.34, despite intensified US strikes against Iran and ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf…
Asian shares mostly declined Thursday, with South Korea's Kospi plunging 6.6% after the Bank of Korea raised interest rates for the first time since 2023 to curb inflation from the Iran war, while sel…
Palantir Technologies chief technology officer Shyam Sankar told Bloomberg Television that Chinese open-source AI models are the result of distillation attacks that stole American intellectual propert…
Apple received approval from China's Cyberspace Administration on July 15, 2026, to launch Apple Intelligence on iPhones in China, partnering with Alibaba's Qwen model for text and image generation an…
Apple is partnering with Baidu to power AI search for its Apple Intelligence suite in China, with Baidu developing an AI-powered search experience that enhances Siri and enables image and text underst…
A local LLM runs entirely on a user's own device instead of a vendor's cloud server, ensuring data never leaves the machine. Cisco's 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study found that 48% of organizations a…
A grey market in China resells access to Anthropic's Claude at 70-90% below official API prices through 'transfer stations' that mass-produce accounts, swap models, and capture user data. Anthropic ac…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model with 41 billion active parameters per task, t…
China enacted new legislation making virtual relationships with chatbots illegal for minors, requiring AI companies to alert a minor's emergency contact if an emotional crisis is detected, and banning…
China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-bui…