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…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is preparing an initial public offering and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after closing its first-ever outside round at roughly $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The Hangzhou-based…
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…
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…
Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek is considering raising more funds weeks after closing a US$7 billion round, targeting a pre-money valuation of US$71 billion, according to the Financial Times. The startup …
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…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a pre-money valuation of 480 billion yuan (~$71 billion), a 37% increase from its May round, and has begun IPO preparatio…
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…
US Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Nvidia has shipped only a "very small quantity" of H200 AI chips to mainland China and Hong Kong, c…
ZTE Kangxun Telecom, a unit of Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp, and server maker Maginfra have received U.S. approval to purchase Nvidia's advanced H200 AI chips, while a Kingsoft subsidiary has been c…
DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
A data scientist evaluated 10 AI coding models across 5 tasks, finding that DeepSeek-R1 scored highest at 9.4 but cost $2.50/M tokens, while Qwen3-Coder-30B offered the best balance at 8.8 and $0.35/M…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup valued at up to $59 billion, is planning to file for an initial public offering this year, according to sources. The company, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenf…
A unit of ZTE Corp and two other Chinese firms have received U.S. approval to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, according to documents and sources. ZTE Kangxun Telecom and server maker Maginfra were pe…
Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face this spring, surpassing U.S. models, and the top six most popular models on OpenRouter are all open models from Chinese firms …
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and feat…