China's Ministry of Commerce held meetings with Alibaba and ByteDance to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced AI models, mirroring US export controls on Anthropic's models in June. The prop…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, according to Reuter…
China is considering new export controls on frontier AI models, including both proprietary and open-weight systems, to protect domestic capabilities amid intensifying competition with the US. Official…
Chinese authorities discussed potential restrictions on overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The proposed controls would ex…
China is considering restricting overseas access to its advanced AI models, including unreleased systems and some open-weight releases, according to a Reuters report. The Ministry of Commerce has held…
China is considering cutting off foreign access to its top AI systems, including open-source models, following a meeting between state officials and tech developers Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The m…
China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already di…
China is considering restricting foreign access to its most powerful AI models, affecting companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The move positions AI as a strategic asset …
Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, in talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move would reverse C…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai to discuss limiting overseas access to the country's most capable AI models, including open-weight systems like…
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai to discuss restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, citing national security co…
China's new AI regulations take effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable agent and persona features. The 'Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomo…
China minted 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026, the highest in nearly five years, driven by a boom in artificial intelligence and robotics. AI and robotics accounted for over 53% of t…
A 75,000-character resignation letter from DingTalk product manager Teng Yaxin exposed toxic workplace culture at Alibaba's team collaboration platform, leading to CEO Chen Hang's ouster. The letter d…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model that accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs and supports 180-second beta video generation with multilingual creation. The model, dev…
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling humanlike agent features in their AI products Doubao and Qwen ahead of China's new Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Service…
Tencent is selling up to $1.6 billion of its stake in Kuaishou, reducing its holding from 15.68% to about 9.37%, in a block trade of 273 million shares. The sale comes shortly after Tencent helped fun…
China forced ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down humanlike chatbot personas on their AI platforms, responding to new regulations from Beijing aimed at preventing addiction and protecting minors. The ru…
SiliconFlow, China's largest independent token supply platform, filed for a Hong Kong listing under Chapter 18C on June 30, 2026, revealing that it processed 578.5 billion tokens per day as of April 2…
Chinese web novel platforms that initially embraced AI writing tools are now cracking down on AI-generated content as readers complain about quality and creativity. Authors like Gordon Sheng use tools…