Baidu Inc.'s Chief Financial Officer Henry He said the company's AI-driven revenue, now more than half of its sales, could soon generate profits and cash payback on par with its legacy search business…
A developer asked five AI chatbots—Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Doubao—to help choose a domain name for a planned Chinese name generator website, and after two rounds of scoring, four of the f…
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 …
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
China's new rules, effective 15 July, ban AI companions for minors and restrict chatbots marketed to adults, prompting ByteDance to shut down the companion feature on its Doubao chatbot. The governmen…
China has implemented the world's most sweeping national rules banning AI companions for minors and restricting chatbots marketed to adults, effective 15 July, prompting ByteDance to shut down the com…
A study tracking nearly 27,000 middle and high school students in China found that 80 percent used AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao, and after six months, their homework scores rose by 1…
A study of 27,000 pupils aged 12-18 in China found that students using AI models such as Doubao and DeepSeek saw their average homework scores rise by 18% and homework time fall from 64 to 45 minutes,…
A study of 27,000 students in China found that those using AI tools such as Doubao and DeepSeek saw homework scores rise by 18% over six months but scored 20% below non-AI users on exams taken without…
A six-month study of 26,811 secondary school students in China found that those who used generative AI tools for homework saw their exam scores drop by 20% compared with non-users, even as their homew…
ByteDance's Seed foundation-model division has restructured into four new departments—Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work, and Product Posttrain-Chat—to focus on business applications an…
Tesla began rolling out software update 2026.14.13 on July 31, embedding ByteDance's Doubao large language model into all Tesla vehicles sold in China, including Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X…
A practical guide published in late July 2026 evaluates the true costs of 'free' AI tools, distinguishing between free entry points, free allowances, trials, and local software. It recommends a combin…
A comparison of six AI chatbots—Grok, Doubao, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT among them—asked to design a star sign guessing game without asking birthdays revealed different strategies, with Grok using binary …
A developer ran a China AI benchmark for eight luxury-jewelry brands and found that Piaget appeared in all answers about brands with official China channels but in none of the wedding-jewelry recommen…
ByteDance has formed a new top-level AI data and safety department, led by former TikTok executive Wang Yinglei, according to a report from IT Home. The unit, which grew out of a global data team esta…
ByteDance's Doubao, its consumer AI assistant, has introduced a 12% service fee for hotel bookings made through its channel on Douyin's local-services platform, effective Aug. 10. The fee comprises an…
China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI's emotional interactions with users, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove AI agent features that allowed user…
ByteDance's Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM that fuses audio, video, and text in a single end-to-end architecture, enabling real-time multimodal interactio…
A man asked seven AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Doubao, DeepSeek, Qianwen, and Tencent Yuanbao—for anniversary ideas on a 500 RMB ($70) budget, and each suggested unique plans ranging from a pers…