China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced Wednesday that its four-month 'Qinglang' campaign against AI application abuse has removed more than 5.61 million pieces of illegal or non-co…
Tencent launched an open platform for WorkBuddy, opening its AI-agent capabilities to third-party developers, hardware makers, and industry applications, with more than 100 software and hardware partn…
Amazon has sued Perplexity in federal court after the AI startup's Comet browser logged into shoppers' Amazon accounts and made purchases on their behalf, which Amazon says violated its terms of servi…
SandrPod, an open-source, self-hosted control plane for AI agent code execution, launched v0.5.10, enabling developers to run unmodified E2B SDK code on their own infrastructure across 8 clouds includ…
WeChat Pay's AI AgentPay Card now supports DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw, enabling agents to recommend, order, and pay for services in one conversation. The card covers over 700 Pay Skills on Tencent'…
A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model ran on a single CPU with 8.24 GB of RAM using a 176 KB portable C99 engine, though it requires a 1.56 TB checkpoint on disk and runs at 26.5 seconds per token a…
In August, Chinese AI labs released a series of frontier and near-frontier open-weights models, including DeepSeek-v4-Flash-0731, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, Z.ai's GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash, and Qwen3.8-F…
Tencent's WeChat Vision team released WeMM-Embedding, a family of multimodal embedding models in 2B, 4B, and 9B parameter sizes, supporting text, images, videos, visual documents, and interleaved inpu…
US data labeling firms collectively earn roughly $500 million per year from China's six leading AI operations, including ByteDance, Alibaba, Ant Group, and Tencent, while also serving US military AI p…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) warned that four major US AI data providers—SurgeAI, Mercor, AfterQuery, and Turing—are supplying data to Chinese AI labs while also working for the Pentagon, citing a Fo…
Tencent researchers found that non-thinking inference modes in hybrid multimodal AI models increase response failures by up to 48.64%, according to a new paper on arXiv introducing the PatternEval ben…
Tencent released Hy4 preview on August 28, a 770B parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0, with only 49B active parameters per token and a 1 million token context window, targeting software engin…
A Hacker News user posted 'HN Mirror with Image Previews,' a tool that mirrors Hacker News's top stories with added image previews. The mirror displays 118 top stories from the site, linking to extern…
Tencent released Hy4 Preview, a large language model with a significant size increase from its predecessor Hy3, which had 295B total parameters, 21B active parameters, 256,000 context length, and 598G…
Tencent released Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter open-source flagship model with 49 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window, targeting long-horizon software engineering, …
Tencent's Hy Team released Hy4 preview, a 770B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts flagship model with 49B activated parameters per token, featuring Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention and a 1M context length. T…
Google is internally testing Gemini 3.8 Flash, the presumed successor to Gemini 3.7 Flash, according to Business Insider and AI leakers on X, with a possible public release in September. A Tencent res…
Tencent EdgeOne Makers, formerly EdgeOne Pages, is a full-stack development and deployment platform built on Tencent's global edge network, offering frontend hosting, serverless functions, KV and blob…
Tencent claims its Hunyuan 3.0 foundation model, with 295 billion parameters and deep integration into WeChat and its Yuanbao AI assistant, outperforms rivals in internal tests, positioning it against…
Tencent released a preview of a new open-source AI model on Friday, targeting software engineering, research, and financial analysis tasks, and made it available on Hugging Face. The company did not d…