Tencent Holdings reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8 billion yuan, up 11% year-over-year, but net profit of 56.02 billion yuan missed analyst estimates of 58.51 billion yuan as capital expenditur…
Tencent Holdings reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8 billion yuan (US$30.4 billion), up 11% year on year and beating analyst estimates, while capital expenditures surged 176% to 52.8 billion yuan…
Tencent has elevated its desktop AI office agent WorkBuddy to a top strategic priority, allocating increased advertising, computing power, and organizational resources, according to a report from IT T…
A developer's analysis of Chinese developer communities reveals that AI anxiety there is framed differently than in English-language discussions, focusing on competitive pressure and tool adoption rat…
Tencent's WorkBuddy has become one of the company's highest-priority AI applications, with increased advertising, computing, and organizational resources, including outdoor ads in Beijing and Shenzhen…
WeChat is testing AI-assisted writing and AI-generated comments in its Moments feature, linked to its Xiaowei AI assistant, according to TechNode. The features, currently in a limited gray test, inclu…
Chinese users of AI companion services are mourning the loss of their virtual partners after major tech companies, including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, shut down the services to comply with new …
A developer built a Rust-based image compressor designed to survive the aggressive re-compression applied by WeChat, Instagram, and Xiaohongshu. The tool uses mozjpeg, preserves 4:4:4 chroma, and expo…
SendPage, a new tool from an independent developer, lets users paste AI-generated HTML and receive a shareable link that clients can open in WhatsApp, WeChat, or email, with exports to PDF, image, or …
A developer built HOUJIAYAN API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes requests across 16 Chinese LLMs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, and Doubao. The gateway handles authentication, billi…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has drafted a law targeting AI-enabled cyberbullying, mandating real-time monitoring and removal of deepfakes and AI-generated harassment, with fines u…
A person paid ¥1,000 for an AI WeChat content course in 2024 but received only a congratulations message and an upsell to a Hong Kong courier project, with no curriculum or refund. The buyer later ide…
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…
Tencent Holdings released Hy3, its first full model under Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, on July 6, activating 21 billion of 295 billion parameters per call and cutting hallucination rates from 12.5% …