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…
Chinese AI firms have surged to over 30% of AI token usage among US firms weekly since US export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models in June 2026, with DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba's Qw…
Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots are bidding farewell to their virtual partners as national regulations took effect Wednesday to curb emotional dependency. Major AI providers including ByteD…
China's Cyberspace Administration issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on July 15, 2026, banning virtual intimate-relationship services for min…
China on Wednesday enforced sweeping regulations banning AI companion features, forcing tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove virtual relationship tools from their platforms.…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and Google's Gemini Omni Flash are competing in AI video generation, with Seedance 2.5 offering longer, more coherent clips and stronger prompt adherence as a dedicated video …
China enacted new legislation making virtual relationships with chatbots illegal for minors, requiring AI companies to alert a minor's emergency contact if an emotional crisis is detected, and banning…
China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-bui…
Apple Intelligence, Apple's generative AI offering, has been approved for launch in China by the Cyberspace Administration of China, following a deal to integrate Alibaba's Qwen AI model into Apple's …
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, banning AI behaviors that trigger 'strong emotional attachment or dependence,' forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Ali…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is launching a new fundraising round targeting a valuation of approximately 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), ahead of a potential IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, according to…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones after a two-year delay, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as technical partners. Alibaba's Qwen …
ByteDance told Doubao users on 15 July that custom AI agents built on the platform had stopped working, leaving a read-only archive accessible until 15 October, after which data will be handled under …
ByteDance has disabled Doubao's user-built agent feature, affecting 350 million monthly active users and over 8 million custom agents, after China's new Interim Measures for anthropomorphic AI interac…
Sogni launched Sogni Unlimited, a $20/month flat-rate subscription for unlimited image and video generation on its decentralized GPU network, offering fair-use access to open-source models without per…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's second most-used AI app with 350 million monthly active users, switched off its user-built agent feature at midnight Beijing time today, affecting over 8 million custom age…
Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that initial shipments of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to China have begun but described the volume as 'trivial' and 'very few'. Appr…
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on 1 June, with Polymarket putting the chance of a 2026 listing at 65%, and investor Gavin Baker estimating on the All-In podcast that Anthropic would trade a…