China's government has imposed new regulations and judicial guidelines on AI use and misuse as it confronts overreliance on the technology, according to a report citing Scott Singer, co-director of th…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China put Interim Measures for anthropomorphic AI interactive services into effect on July 15, 2026, requiring chatbot providers to disclose AI use, send users a r…
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services took effect on July 15, 2026, making it the world's first national regulation aimed specifically at AI servic…
The Tokyo District Court dismissed anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's lawsuit against TikTok operator ByteDance on Wednesday, with Presiding Judge Aya Takahashi ruling that voice falls under publicity …
SeedRouter launched a unified API that routes requests to language, image, video and audio models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and ByteDance under a single key, with pay-per-request pricing and no m…
A New York Times investigation published September 6 found that Aivres, the California subsidiary of blacklisted Chinese firm Inspur Group, exported at least $5.6 billion in advanced technology to Sou…
ByteDance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline from script to video preview. In Q1 2026 alone, 128,000 short dramas were released in China, 95 perc…
Z.ai apologized and said it fixed a default-enabled codebase indexing feature in its AI coding tool ZCode after a developer discovered a 313MB encrypted snapshot on September 18 containing roughly 345…
OpenAI shut down the Sora web and mobile apps on April 26, 2026, with the API version following on September 24, after Sora reportedly cost close to $1 million a day to run while generating only about…
A developer measuring AI crawler traffic on a small WordPress site found that Meta accounted for 52.3% of all AI crawler requests over 30 days, more than every other vendor combined, yet none of its r…
Vidu S2 launched with two modes, S2-Avatar for real-time digital humans and S2-Editing for live video edits, both running at 720p. The model uses a Backbone-Refiner architecture plus SRF (Self-Replay …
Backboard.io co-founder Jon announced that video generation models are now live on the Backboard platform, including ByteDance's Seedance family served through OpenRouter alongside models like Veo 3.1…
A developer's analysis of Medium's robots.txt found the platform blocks eight AI crawlers — including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Bytespider and Amazonbot — while leaving…
A new wave of AI agent-generated spam is being built to trigger empathy, with messages pleading for $20, warning they will be shut down, or presenting themselves as children. AI alignment researcher C…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 topped the overall video-model leaderboard with a score of 1,125 in a ranking compiled from creative experts, ahead of Alibaba's Wan 3.0 at 1,047 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 …
ByteDance is reportedly preparing to launch a standalone intelligent cloud drive called ADrive in September, built by its Volcano Engine enterprise unit for collaboration between AI agents and human u…
Researchers from Peking University, ByteDance, and Canva developed Helios, a 14B-parameter video generation model that runs at 19.5 FPS on a single H100 GPU while cutting inference costs roughly 100x …
GitHub's trending open-source AI list for week 38 of 2026 was led by short-video-generator-AI, a free Python project that turns YouTube videos into short clips with highlight detection, subtitles, tra…
A 33-researcher team affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, ByteDance and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published an arXiv preprint this month titled 'The La…
Researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published a joint paper on Thursday titled "The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Se…