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…
Ant Digital Technologies president Zhuoqun Bian warned at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 that financial institutions must extend "know your customer" compliance to "know your agent" as …
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of China's Ant Group, has begun a global roll-out of AI agents across its entire suite of financial services, which the company calls its largest-ever product…
Ant Group's AQ health app reached 150 million users and handles nearly 20 million health-related inquiries daily, vice president and health business head Zhang Junjie announced at the 2026 INCLUSION ·…
Ant International open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub on Friday, putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for AI agents to make payments through mobile wallets.…
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…
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…
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa launched a joint initiative on September 10, 2026 to build a common trust framework for AI agents that make purchases on behalf of consumers, covering agent ide…
A new analysis from Vals AI, an independent AI benchmarking company, found that longer, more complex AI tasks can have an environmental impact 10,000 times greater than simple queries, with building a…
Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group have joined the PyTorch Foundation as members, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon as Platinum members and Ant Group as a Gold member, following Huawei's membershi…
Ant Group open-sourced LingBot-Vision, a family of self-supervised Vision Transformer backbones for dense spatial perception, with models ranging from ViT-S/16 to a 1.1B-parameter ViT-g/16, released o…
Researchers from Princeton University, Ant Group and Stanford University introduced AQuA, a two-part agentic framework for autonomous factor discovery and model development in quantitative finance, wh…
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…
US data labeling firms collectively earn roughly $500 million per year from China's six leading AI operations, including ByteDance, Alibaba, Ant Group, and Tencent, while also serving US military AI p…
China has implemented the world's most sweeping national rules banning AI companions for minors and restricting chatbots marketed to adults, effective 15 July, prompting ByteDance to shut down the com…
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Ant Group have demonstrated a new attack technique called InjecMEM that lets hackers plant hidden instructions in an AI agent's memory with a single …
ACE Robotics Chairman Wang Xiaogang predicts embodied AI could reach its 'ChatGPT moment' by the end of 2027, driven by world models and environmental data capture. The Chinese startup, founded in Jul…
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…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …