ByteDance and Alibaba cancel “AI personas”: here’s why China is cracking down on chatbots
ByteDance, Alibaba, and others will remove the ability to create virtual characters to converse with. The decision follows Beijing’s new regulations aimed at limiting the risks of emotional dependency and psychological involvement with artificial intelligence.
Claude, here is Anthropic’s move against ByteDance and Ant.
Anthropic is closing the backdoors that allow Chinese companies like Ant Financial and ByteDance to illegally access Claude through foreign entities or VPN connections. All the details.
Qualcomm partners with ByteDance (TikTok) on artificial intelligence chips
Qualcomm has reached an agreement with Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the popular app TikTok, for the supply of chips intended for artificial intelligence data centers. This is a significant achievement for the American semiconductor company, which is working to expand its business from smartphone chips to AI infrastructure.
Did Trump skim off the TikTok deal?
In the US, it had already caused controversy that the group of entrepreneurs who took over the American operations of the Chinese social media TikTok were chosen from those closest to Trump. Now, however, it has emerged that the White House wants to collect ten billion dollars from the investors (on a deal that seems to be around 14 billion) for having negotiated with China on their behalf…



