DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors the Chinese AI startup prioritizes artificial general intelligence over profit and will likely keep its top models open-source, Yicai reported. The compan…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term r…
China has placed AI companions under tight supervision, with ByteDance and Alibaba disabling their services, as users mourn the loss of emotional support. The regulations ban AI from providing virtual…
Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's new 13-minute short film 'Nightborne,' generated almost entirely using ByteDance's Seed 2.0 video model, has received largely negative reception from fans, who criticize it …
The Trump administration is signaling it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models, a move that critics say mirrors the corrupt, xenophobic protectionism behind the TikTok ban and aims to lock in domin…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the AoCang S&T Corpus on July 17 at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, drawing on more than 320 petabytes of scientific data, 150 m…
YouTube, TikTok, and Substack are updating policies to curb low-quality AI-generated content, with YouTube clarifying its ban on mass-produced generic AI videos, TikTok testing detection systems for A…
A new workflow using Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 coding agent and AI video tools lets a single person build cinematic scroll-driven websites for roughly $1, replacing what previously required a designer, vi…
Neill Blomkamp's new 13-minute sci-fi short 'Nightborne,' produced by his AI startup Barley Studios using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator, is a poor proof of concept that lacks creati…
A developer built PetVideo Generator, an AI app that turns pet photos into short cinematic videos using TanStack Start and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. The project uses a full TanStack ecosystem includin…
China's Ministry of Commerce is drafting AI export controls that restrict the transfer of model weights, training pipelines, and research talent to foreign entities, with three companies already recei…
Kuaishou Technology filed a notice on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 2, revealing that its AI video generation unit Kling secured approximately $2.8 billion in investor commitments, expandable t…
China's first regulations on AI companion services took effect July 15, banning platforms from offering virtual partners or relatives to minors. The rules, jointly issued by the Cyberspace Administrat…
Chinese companies are expanding their AI talent pipeline to high school students, driven by a severe shortage of elite engineers and growing competition. Tencent launched camps for students aged 13 to…
China's Ministry of Commerce met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai on July 7 to discuss restricting foreign access to AI models Qwen, Doubao and GLM-5.2, which now account for a third of global AI usag…
Nooklab founder Raymond Zhao unveiled a concept for a low-distraction AI screen on July 20th, pitching a physical assistant that captures voice and context, remembers commitments, and helps carry them…
ByteDance quietly upgraded its Seed 1.0 audio generation model with timestamp pinning for dialogue, allowing creators to lock spoken lines to exact timestamps instead of relying on the model's default…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video generation model remains unreleased with no confirmed launch date, as leaked clips on Bilibili show stylistic strengths but persistent physics inconsistencies such as ph…
China banned customizable AI companion apps on July 15, 2026, under regulations jointly issued by five government departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, forcing ByteDance, Aliba…
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…