China is weighing export curbs on advanced AI models after talks with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai, Reuters reports.

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

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

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

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has put Anthropic's Claude Code on a high-risk software list.

Beijing has made a slew of moves in recent months to gatekeep its cutting edge and cost-efficient models.

Beijing is weighing restrictions on overseas access to China's top AI models, deepening the US-China tech cold war with implications for crypto and

Chinese authorities have held discussions with some of the country's biggest technology companies over the past month on restricting overseas access to China's most advanced…

Chinese authorities are meeting with tech firms about restricting AI model access. These discussions aim to protect advanced artificial intelligence as a national asset. Companies…

Chinese officials have discussed limiting foreign access to the country’s best AI models, including open-weight ones from Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai.

Chinese authorities are engaging with tech firms to discuss limiting overseas access to advanced AI models, aiming to safeguard these technologies as critical national assets.

China's Ministry of Commerce is meeting with Alibaba, ByteDance, and other tech giants about restricting overseas access to advanced AI models, signaling a

Китайские власти провели серию переговоров с крупнейшими технологическими компаниями страны (среди участников — Alibaba, ByteDance и стартап Z.ai) о возможном…

China spent years accused of stealing American AI. Now it wants to protect its own.

According to Reuters, Chinese authorities are looking into restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models. Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai would all be affected.…

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI exports that the U.S. deployed against Anthropic in June.

In Beijing as in Washington, AI has become a critical—and jealously guarded—national resource.

Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those…

China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing AI export restrictions with Alibaba and ByteDance, mirroring US controls on Anthropic's models from June 2026.