In Episode 6 of the AI Experiments series, all eight tested AI models — Doubao, Kimi, Yuanbao, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — unanimously chose value investing as their preferred invest…
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…
An ongoing experiment comparing 8 AI chatbots — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qianwen (Tongyi), and Doubao — answering the same investing question across 7 episodes found that AIs con…
In an experiment asking 8 AIs what single cognitive ability to learn in 2025 to boost earning potential over the next decade, the AIs initially gave 8 different answers, but when asked to vote on each…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
China's AI-native applications reached 499 million monthly active users (MAU) by May 2026, an 85.4% surge year-over-year, according to a QuestMobile report published July 14. ByteDance's Doubao leads …