DeepSeek is in preliminary talks to raise new funds at a roughly $71 billion valuation, a $19 billion increase from its $52 billion valuation set six weeks ago in May, according to the Financial Times…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in discussions for a new funding round that would value it at $71 billion on a pre-money basis, according to the Financial Times, just weeks after closing its first exte…
China's new Five-Year Plan omits a numerical target for urban job creation for the first time in decades, as unemployment stands at 5.1% and producer prices hit a four-year high amid AI-driven labor m…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
Nvidia is halving its list of approved customers across Asia and tightening distributor vetting as US export controls squeeze its China market share, which is projected to collapse from 66% in 2024 to…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrat…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a national safety benchmark for generative AI models, targeting six core dimensions and covering 31 specific safety risks. The init…
Tencent is preparing an AI agent for WeChat, the app used by about 1.4 billion people, according to the Financial Times. The agent will work through WeChat's mini-apps and be accessible from a chat bo…
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet c…
An engineer at a company built an internal benchmark to evaluate coding LLMs for production use, testing ten models on real-world tasks like Python services and JavaScript debugging. The results showe…
China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security back door that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers, prompt…
Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, following China's order for Meta to divest from the company in April. The deal would restore Chines…
A backend engineer's field notes from 2026 reveal a 350× price spread between the cheapest and most expensive AI APIs, with Qwen3-8B at $0.01/M output tokens and DeepSeek V4 Pro at $3.50/M. The engine…
Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent startup Manus after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of the company. The deal would reset Manus' owne…
Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent have accessed advanced AI services from Google and OpenAI through their Singapore-based subsidiaries, according to a Financial Times …
Generative AI for spatial content has rapidly evolved from basic 3D asset creation to interactive world models and AI-native CAD between May 2025 and June 2026, driven by releases from Meta, Google De…
Tencent is preparing to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's planned acquisition. The move signals Tencent's ambition to enhance i…
Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's earlier acquisition attempt. The deal would support Tencent's plans to…
OpenAI and Google have been providing advanced AI model access to Singapore-registered subsidiaries of Chinese firms Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, which are on the Pentagon's list of companies with tie…