With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.

With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.

Doubao and Qwen are pulling user-created agents before Beijing's July 15 rules on humanlike AI interaction, the world's first such framework.

The companies will shut down customizable AI character features on their Qianwen and Doubao apps on July 15, the same day Beijing’s new rules take effect tightening oversight of…

On Saturday, ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen both announced that their AI agent creation features will be discontinued on July 15, 2026. After the

ByteDance and Alibaba shut down AI companion features in Doubao and Qwen apps ahead of China's new anthropomorphic AI regulations taking effect July 15,

ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen are disabling humanlike AI custom agents as China enforces new regulations to oversee interactive AI services in the rapidly evolving sector.

Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, NetEase among those pulling such personalized features

Concern about AI chatbots simulating human personalities and emotions — and the attachment users can develop to those interactions — motivated the new rules.

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down the features that let users build and chat with custom AI companions, responding to new regulations from Beijing.

Nachdem China die Regeln für menschenähnliche KI-Begleiter verschärft hat, entfernen ByteDance und Alibaba entsprechende Funktionen aus ihren KI-Apps.

The first rules in China targeting emotional AI are forcing the country's biggest apps to shut down custom agents.

China's new emotional AI rules took effect July 15, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to disable custom AI agent features on their biggest platforms.

Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude AI from July 10, citing security risks and pushing Qoder.