ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling humanlike agent features in their AI products Doubao and Qwen ahead of China's new Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Service…
China forced ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down humanlike chatbot personas on their AI platforms, responding to new regulations from Beijing aimed at preventing addiction and protecting minors. The ru…
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will shut down their AI agent creation features on July 15, 2026, coinciding with the implementation of China's new AI regulations. Existing user-created agents w…
ByteDance aims to finalize the design of its next-generation in-house CPU by early next year, targeting mass production in the second half of 2027 to power its AI infrastructure. The company is collab…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models through Global API's unified endpoint, measuring time to first token and tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash from StepFun topped the speed leaderboard with 80 tokens…
ByteDance is seeking a $20 billion offshore loan to fund an AI infrastructure buildout, nearly doubling its previous record, as the TikTok parent pivots from social media to competing with OpenAI. The…
A developer built a 'Thought Precipitation System' that captures ideas during runs using voice input. The system uses Doubao Input Method for speech-to-text transcription, sends the text to a Feishu g…
ByteDance's AI assistant app Doubao is testing a ride-hailing feature in Beijing and Hangzhou, powered by Caocao Mobility, expanding into instant mobility after e-commerce and group-buying.…
Tencent is testing an AI agent inside WeChat that can complete tasks across mini-programs, leveraging the super app's 1.4 billion users and existing service ecosystem. The agent aims to integrate AI i…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over mon…
AIVA, an AI-native mobility brand backed by Seres Group and launched by Saidou Technology, debuted in Beijing on June 9, 2026, with a partnership with ByteDance's Volcano Engine to co-develop in-vehic…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX this year, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia amid US export controls. The chips would primarily serve in…
ByteDance is in talks to buy at least 50,000 AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX for inference workloads powering its Doubao chatbot, Reuters reports. If completed, the deal would make Iluvata…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's AI competition has shifted from raw technical performance to delivering measurable business value, with major platforms like ByteDance introducing paid subscriptions f…
NVIDIA at GTC 2026 presented the full-stack confidential computing capabilities of the Vera Rubin architecture, emphasizing that future AI chips must keep data encrypted throughout computation to prev…
ChatGPT's mobile app reached 1 billion monthly active users in three years, nearly twice as fast as TikTok's five-year climb to that milestone, according to Sensor Tower data. The OpenAI chatbot's use…
ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao incorrectly told a user his flight cancellation would cost only 5% of the ticket price, then claimed it would compensate him 600 yuan and that he could win a lawsuit ag…
A developer built a Django package called `django-doubao` that uses ByteDance's Doubao AI to merge childhood photos with cat images and generate videos of the two playing together. The reusable app, p…