Cybersecurity firm Calif demonstrated WeWorm, the first known zero-click worm that can spread through WeChat calls on both Apple's iOS and Google's Android, exploiting a flaw in WeChat's voice-calling…
Cybersecurity firm Calif disclosed an AI-developed computer worm capable of hacking over a billion WeChat accounts, warning of AI-driven cyber threats. The worm targeted the Chinese messaging service …
Calif.io researchers published WeWorm, an exploit that compromises WeChat accounts via a single unanswered phone call, and reported it to Tencent, which has mitigated the vulnerability for all users. …
WeChat, owned by Tencent, is testing a feature called Xiaowei AI Social that lets two AI assistants converse before their human owners intervene, targeting tasks like scheduling and meal coordination.…
WeChat is testing a feature called "Xiaowei AI Social" in a limited rollout, allowing a user's Xiaowei assistant to contact a friend's Xiaowei assistant and handle an initial conversation. Possible ta…
A developer used AI as the primary development interface to build Weiguang Xinyu, a WeChat mini game, in one day. The project resulted in a working ten-level Canvas2D puzzle with an original soundtrac…
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…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it removed more than 5.61 million pieces of harmful or illegal content and deleted about 49,000 accounts in a crackdown on AI-generated 'slop' acr…
LeapXpert, a governed messaging platform for regulated firms, has raised approximately $180M and sells into financial services, government, pharma, and Fortune 500 enterprises, capturing client conver…
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 and Alibaba reported massive capital expenditures for AI infrastructure, with Tencent's quarterly capex reaching RMB 52.8 billion (up 176% year-over-year) and Alibaba's reaching RMB 67.7 billi…
Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, putting payments under every model call. Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate passed OpenAI in Q2, driven by Claude Code and enterprise tooling. Apple Music will add…
China's 'AI boyfriend' trend is more hype than substance, as the apps are essentially roleplay wrappers around LLMs with persistent memory and voice synthesis, according to an analysis of user experie…
Tencent, the $513 billion tech giant, could leap from AI laggard to leader, according to a Breakingviews analysis, thanks to booming gaming and advertising cash flow that rivals lack. The report comes…
Tencent Holdings has embedded an AI agent named Xiaowei into its WeChat super-app, touting its focus on user privacy and inference efficiency in its latest earnings results announced on Wednesday. In …
A website security investigation that initially failed succeeded after the author switched from describing symptoms to providing raw evidence, revealing a hidden 83KB malicious JavaScript payload stor…
A follow-up investigation by a website owner found that a hidden redirect attack on his sites was caused by a compromised Ad Inserter plugin storing malicious JavaScript in the WordPress database, not…
CXMT, China's largest memory-chip maker, overtook Tencent Holdings as the world's most valuable Chinese company, with its market capitalization reaching US$524 billion versus Tencent's US$510 billion,…
DeepSeek has launched a WeChat account for its new 'DeepSeek Harness Team' and posted job listings to build AI agents that compete with Anthropic's Claude Code, according to a Bloomberg report. The Ha…
DeepSeek has created an official WeChat account for its new 'DeepSeek Harness Team' and posted job listings to develop AI agents that can compete with Anthropic PBC's Claude Code, according to Bloombe…