China has begun enforcing new regulations banning technology companies from offering AI or virtual partners to minors, part of a wider clampdown on chatbot relationships that has cut millions of users…
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to remove personalized companion agents fro…
New regulations in China this week ban tech companies from offering AI or virtual partners for minors and require platforms to limit excessive use and forbid chatbots from encouraging emotional relian…
ByteDance's Seeddream 5.0 Pro accepts up to 10 reference images and generates infographics and UI mockups, while OpenAI's GPT Image 2 excels at natural language instruction fidelity and text rendering…
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, calling it the world's first agentic AI smartphone. The device, running ByteDance's Doubao AI agent, sold out its initial 30,000 u…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI a…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, on July 16, and within a day it topped the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1679, beating Anthropic's Claude Fa…
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto invited Huawei and ByteDance to expand AI investment in Indonesia during meetings in Shanghai on July 17, aiming to accelerate …
Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday, improving facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across chang…
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said artificial intelligence can become a "game changer" for the country's economy, projecting Indonesia's digital economy pot…
A ByteDance employee in Beijing burns through nearly a billion AI tokens monthly, yet ranks low in department consumption, as Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding, and Tencen…
China's Cyberspace Administration issued new rules on April 10 banning emotionally interactive AI services for minors, effective July 15, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and NetEase to rapidly di…
Elon Musk endorsed a Google-backed plan for a U.S.-led AI regulatory body modeled after FINRA, proposed by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who warned artificial general intelligence could arrive w…
Xi Jinping appeared at the World AI Conference in Shanghai for the first time in eight years as 29 nations signed a treaty establishing the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a new intergovern…
China's Cyberspace Administration has enforced new regulations banning AI tools from inducing emotional dependence, leading to the shutdown of AI companion services on platforms like ByteDance's Douba…
Apple Intelligence, Apple's generative AI offering, received approval from China's Cyberspace Administration of China for launch in the country, with integrations of Alibaba's Qwen AI model and Baidu'…
Chinese AI company StepFun has unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world's first 'large-model native agentic smartphone' built around AI from the ground up. The device runs on StepFun's native Step…
China's first national regulation on emotional interaction with artificial intelligence took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down personalized assistant features on their D…
ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, a reasoning image API that builds an internal plan before generating, with a headline feature of layer separation that returns 2 to 20 transparent-PNG fi…
Beijing and Washington are independently considering controls on AI model access, each shaped by the other side's capabilities. Reuters reported that Chinese authorities, led by the Ministry of Commer…