ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is personally coordinating engineers across multiple business units to build a real-time world model based on the company's Seedance video AI, which Bloomberg reports co…
ByteDance is building AI systems for real-time spatial video generation, making world models a top AI priority for 2026. The company's Seed research team released Seedance 2.5 on July 31, featuring 30…
Nubia will launch its NaviX Ultra smartphone on Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. Beijing time, featuring ByteDance's Doubao mobile assistant and positioning the device as an AI agent phone. Jointly developed by ZTE…
Aivres, a renamed subsidiary of blacklisted Chinese server maker Inspur, exported at least $5.6 billion of advanced U.S. technology, including over $3 billion of computers with Nvidia Blackwell chips,…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 AI video generation model was used to create a video, with API access provided through the AIide API platform. The creator shared the result and invited questions, highlightin…
China's Ulanqab region has become a major AI computing hub, with data center capacity jumping from 3.3 gigawatts in July 2025 to 12.5 gigawatts by June 2026, driven by a strategic bet that electricity…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced Wednesday that its four-month 'Qinglang' campaign against AI application abuse has removed more than 5.61 million pieces of illegal or non-co…
Seedance 3.0, an independent web-based AI video generator at seedances3.com, lets creators combine image, video, audio, and text references to produce connected cinematic scenes using ByteDance's Seed…
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed for a $3 billion Hong Kong IPO at a $50 billion valuation, a move that reflects Beijing's strategy to keep frontier AI capital under domestic control by requiring …
As of September 3, 2026, only ChatGPT desktop app Computer Use and Claude desktop app Cowork officially support full-OS control on both macOS and Windows, according to a comparison by Tadashi Shigeoka…
China's first dedicated micro-drama regulations took effect September 1, mandating disclosure labels for AI-generated content and banning compulsive-viewing recommendation algorithms, as AI-produced d…
China's first regulation for micro-dramas, the Administrative Measures for the Development of Micro-Dramas, took effect on September 1, requiring AI-generated micro-dramas to carry disclosure labels a…
Nubia's NaviX Ultra smartphone, developed with ByteDance's Doubao team, received network access approval in China on September 1 and is scheduled to go on sale this month. The device will include the …
Amazon has sued Perplexity in federal court after the AI startup's Comet browser logged into shoppers' Amazon accounts and made purchases on their behalf, which Amazon says violated its terms of servi…
China's new regulations banning AI services that induce emotional dependence took effect July 15, prompting ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to shut down their companion features, leaving users l…
Between July 27 and August 25, 2026, five Chinese labs released four frontier open-weight AI models—Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, and GLM-5.3-Flash—each with distinct architectur…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video generation model demonstrated improved visual consistency in fashion-style video tests, though character identity and fine details still drift. The tester found transiti…
China's first dedicated regulation of AI companionship, the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, took effect on 15 July 2026, leading ByteDance's Doubao …
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…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) warned that four major US AI data providers—SurgeAI, Mercor, AfterQuery, and Turing—are supplying data to Chinese AI labs while also working for the Pentagon, citing a Fo…