Chinese AI companies cannot die because their government protects them, allowing them to survive a price war by winning the API battle while frontier AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic face diminishin…
XAgent is a task-first AI agent platform designed for teams, built around completing work rather than open-ended conversation. It features a server-side binary deployment, virtual file system for acce…
Meta made its Business AI agent available worldwide on June 3, bundling it into WhatsApp's premium business tiers and charging large companies by the token. The agent, which answers questions, recomme…
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…
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…
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…
A solo developer built TopoForest, an AI-driven business education platform for indie builders, using Next.js, Koa, PostgreSQL, and Prisma. The platform integrates WeChat OAuth and Aliyun services to …
LeapXpert raised $180 million in a growth round led by Riverwood Capital on June 30, 2026, to convert governed business messaging data into AI-ready intelligence for regulated enterprises. The funding…
China unveiled a new industrial internet road map on Tuesday, setting a target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030 and aiming for the sector's value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan. The…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. is ramping up share buybacks as its Hong Kong-listed shares struggle to recover from a selloff that has wiped out about $309 billion in market value since early October. The Shen…
Chinese college application consultants are using fake credentials, AI-generated advice, and predatory marketing to lure high school graduates and their families into spending thousands of yuan, accor…
The Mano-P team released Mano-CUA 2.0, a 4B-parameter GUI agent that runs on a MacBook, and found that the primary bottleneck was not model size but insufficient Chinese GUI training data. After addin…
Amazon seller Jack Nekhala reported to Amazon that a woman offered to bribe an employee to unfreeze $90,000 in funds, providing evidence of an international black market for inside access. Amazon ackn…
Tencent is internally testing an AI agent called Dayuan for its enterprise communication platform WeCom, which reads users' chats, emails, and calendar data to provide context-aware assistance without…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
Tencent has begun testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to perform tasks via text or voice commands. The company plans a public rollout in Q3, aiming to turn the super ap…
Tencent is testing an AI agent inside WeChat that can complete tasks across mini-programs, leveraging the super app's 1.4 billion users and existing service ecosystem. The agent aims to integrate AI i…
Tencent is conducting limited internal tests of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to send messages, make voice calls, and navigate mini-programs via text and voice commands.…
China is building a platform to debut new AI consumer products as part of its 'AI Plus' initiative, with over 70 domestic companies developing AI wearables like smart glasses. The initiative aims to e…