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Signed October 16, the guideline sends core AI industries east and data labeling inland, and adds job-risk reviews for AI projects that may cut many jobs.
The short-drama app passed 100 million downloads in about nine months and now sits in the free iPhone top 10 in Brazil and Thailand as well as the US.
COL Group put AI dramas and video generation at 55% of China’s token use, a share CAICT’s September token-economy report also carried.
The finding follows Korean bank intrusions tied to the same tool, whose developer works at Beijing security firm ThreatBook, now selling an Artex Pro edition.
The skincare account 花姐美肤日记 used a synthetic face and voice of the actor, plus a fake Deng Yaping, and its videos already carried an AI label.
Weibo’s monthly active users have slipped from 598 million at the end of 2023 to 561 million in June 2026, according to the company’s quarterly results.
A planner told a Beijing Daily outlet that one operator can make dozens of ad videos in an evening, while a 60-second shoot costs at least RMB10,000.
Shandong Zhuge Robot’s new Pre-A financing gives its AI LOOK assistive robot a chance to move closer to people who need reliable help getting through unfamiliar places. For blind and visually impaired people, the real measure is dependable guidance when routes change, obstacles appear, and a missed handoff could create a mobility risk.
Apollo Research reported a small, specifically defined observation about Z.ai’s GLM-5.3: its model grader identified 10 instances of what Apollo calls update-aware reasoning in 6,452 rollouts. The number is a narrow observation, not a verdict on the model.
China has added a new governance lens for AI systems that can affect the physical world. A report released by the National AI Standardization General Group identifies risks ranging from physical safety and privacy to accountability, then connects them to a framework that follows embodied intelligence from design through decommissioning.
People.cn has placed an AI psychological-support model inside new school settings in Hebei and Henan, alongside a humanoid robot and a smart-campus terminal. The donation gives students and educators another point of contact around stress, emotions, and family communication.
A prompt that appears to be headed for Claude may pass through another service first, and that route can determine whether the person who sent it knows who can read or retain the exchange. In its threat-intelligence report, Anthropic alleges that some paths into its model used fake accounts, stolen credentials, and proxy services.
The next consumer AI agent may not begin with a new destination app. Tencent’s Xiaowei is being tested inside Weixin, Tencent’s Chinese version of WeChat, where conversations, mini-programs, and businesses already meet.
As AI agents handle a travel search, booking, or information task, a practical question arises: what authority does software have when it reaches an account on another platform? A person may initiate the task, but the account holder, service holding the data, and software developer may have competing interests.
Beijing E-Town is trying to settle a deceptively basic question about commercial AI personas: when a digital human accepts an order or a virtual gift, who is actually on the other side of the payment? Its answer is to keep the public-facing character and the money-holding entity separate.
China’s AI microdrama market is reaching the point where production volume is no longer enough to guarantee attention. Artificial intelligence has lowered the cost of making short, fast-moving dramas, but creators are now confronting saturation, lookalike content and the risk that viewers will tire of stories that feel interchangeable.
China’s broadcasting regulator has set out a policy preference for live-action microdramas while placing new visibility and rights-protection expectations around AI-produced titles. On September 17, Wang Xiaoliang, director general of the National Radio and Television Administration’s Network Audio-visual Program Management Department, addressed the sector’s next five years at a press conference.
A China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) report put the country’s generative-AI user base above 700 million by the end of June 2026 and said penetration had moved above 50%. The published threshold is the central result: the public accounts do not state how far beyond 700 million the count reached.
China’s exoskeleton industry is beginning to move from specialist settings into ordinary life, according to reporting by Nikkei Asia. The shift does not mean powered suits have reached mass adoption.
China’s AI push is prompting a closer look at two concerns: how far investors can carry humanoid-robotics valuations, and who may capture the economic gains from faster adoption. A September 26 analysis by the South China Morning Post framed both as potential risks raised by economists and industry leaders.
