Ant Group merged its Digital Payment, Alipay, and Zhima Credit units into a single Alipay Business Group on September 21, 2026, cutting its tier-one business groups from five to four and naming Wu Min…
Ant Group merged its Digital Payment Business Group, Alipay Business Group and Zhima Credit Business Group into a single Alipay Business Group, CEO Cyril Han Xinyi said in an internal letter on Monday…
Mobile security firm Zimperium discovered a new AI-powered Android malware called RatHat that tricks users into installing fake apps, then abuses accessibility permissions and Wireless Debugging to gr…
Alipay announced at the 2026 Bund Summit that it plans to launch an AI wallet agent to help users manage AI payments, shifting its focus from enabling transactions to making them trustworthy. The agen…
Microsoft shipped nearly 1,000 patches on September 8, 2026, pushing its total software patches for 2026 past the combined totals for all of 2025 and 2024, according to Zero Day Initiative's Dustin Ch…
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International, the global arm of China's Ant Group, announced a "know-your-agent (KYA) interoperability framework" this week to support agentic commerce operations. The three…
ByteDance's cloud division Volcano Engine is enabling next-generation cloud services on Arm's AGI CPU platform and plans to bring the first Arm AGI CPU-powered agentic sandboxes to market, Arm announc…
Ant Group CEO and Alipay chairman Han Xinyi said stablecoin payments are one of four major models in the emerging global AI payments market, according to a report by PA News citing Caixin. Han identif…
Ant Group's quarterly profit plunged 91% year-over-year to approximately 1.2 billion yuan ($57 million) for the quarter ending September 30, as the Alibaba-affiliated fintech giant ramps up spending o…
Chinese AI companies cannot die because their government protects them, allowing them to survive a price war by winning the API battle while frontier AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic face diminishin…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices…
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and feat…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
Alipay has embedded its conversational AI assistant Xiaoyu into 30 million Tap devices, enabling merchants to use voice commands for business analytics, inventory tracking, membership management, and …
Alipay launched an invite-only AI Open Platform, allowing merchants to convert their mini-programs into AI-callable tools via its conversational interface Abao. The move signals a strategic shift from…
Sui Network has partnered with ChainTrust to integrate AI-driven anti-money laundering (AML) compliance tools, enabling real-time transaction screening and risk intelligence on its Layer 1 blockchain.…
Ant Group has overhauled Alipay into an AI-native platform featuring an autonomous agent named Ah Bao, allowing users to access over 10,000 services via conversational interface. The move intensifies …
Ant Group is testing an overhaul of its Alipay super app that introduces an AI agent interface, allowing users to book rides, order coffee, or manage finances via voice or text commands. The move esca…
Ant Group is testing an AI agent interface for Alipay, launching AI Wallet and Token Pay to compete with Tencent's WeChat. Alipay AI Pay surpassed 100 million active users by February 2026, processing…
A developer built MobileGym, a fully browser-based Android-like operating system implemented in TypeScript and React, after burning through tens of billions of tokens. The simulation environment inclu…