Ant Group announced the release of Ling-3.0-Flash, a next-generation native hybrid-reasoning foundational model engineered specifically for production-grade AI agent workflows. Designed to deliver rapid response capabilities, it serves as a high-speed execution node that offers a superior balance of...
Representatives from 29 countries have signed an agreement to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), marking a new step towards strengthening international collaboration on artificial intelligence development and governance.
The signing ceremony took place in ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday announced the creation of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) and called for joint efforts to build a just and equitable system for global AI governance.
"All countries should take a people-centered approach and develop AI for th...
At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), foundation model company StepFun and Alipay announced a system-level partnership, further expanding the capabilities of AI agents from conversations to completing complex tasks in everyday life.
Under the partnership, users will...
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, announced the release of LingBot-VA 2.0, the industry’s first embodied-native video-action world model.
This release marks a key transition in robotics foundation models, shifting from repurposing digital world models to designing them native...
China's National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), operated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has issued a cybersecurity advisory alleging security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code, an AI-powered coding assistant, and has urged organisations and users to review an...
Alipay announced the enhancement of its Tap! services by upgrading the Alipay Tap! devices widely used by millions of merchants into an AI agent-powered network, building the world’s first large-scale AI-powered offline business operations network. By connecting AI agent “Xiaoyu” t...
MGI's subsidiary, Genoria AI, in collaboration with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, announced the launch of two breakthrough innovations that close the gap between digital intelligence and physical execution in biology: ProtoPilot, a self-evolving multi-agent system driven by r...
Ant Group has reported a record research and development (R&D) investment of $5.17 billion (RMB 35.03 billion) in 2025, marking its fifth consecutive year of increased spending and underscoring the company's commitment to advancing artificial intelligence as a driver of innovation, accessibility...
Alipay launched a major AI agent upgrade, enabling its one billion users to find services more easily and execute daily tasks with the help of its AI agent interface.
The update makes Alipay the world’s first super app to evolve into an AI-native platform.
“Alipay has always purs...
Alipay introduced its full-stack AI payment solution to partners across industries, ranging from AI companies to traditional retailers, and debuted two new services the world’s first AI Wallet and Token Pay, to support the agentic economy’s rapid growth.
This launch extends Alipay's nex...
Yeebo Limited announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Suanova Technology Limited (Suanova), has officially established a presence at Hong Kong Cyberport (Cyberport) and launched its domestic Token-as-a-Service (TaaS) business. This milestone marks a significant strategic step in the Group's accel...
China is intensifying efforts to strengthen the governance and security of artificial intelligence (AI) agents as concerns grow over vulnerabilities linked to rapidly expanding open-source AI technologies.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the National Development and Reform Com...
China has launched its 15th Five-Year Plan by placing robotics at the heart of its modern industrial system. The aim is to pivot its AI research towards physical applications with robots as the main drivers for economic growth. This is the next step in the country´s strong automation developme...
Meta Platforms’ proposed acquisition of enterprise AI startup Manus AI, reportedly valued at around $2.5 billion, including retention packages, has hit a regulatory roadblock after China barred the foreign takeover and ordered the parties to unwind the transaction.
The decision was issued by ...
Alipay launched a new AI Pay-powered payment service that enables OpenClaw-type AI agents to make purchases and complete payments based on user instructions. These autonomous AI tools, which execute tasks on a user's behalf, have been nicknamed "lobsters" in China. The use of the new service require...
DeepSeek has unveiled its latest generation of large language models, DeepSeek-V4, marking a significant push toward high-performance yet cost-efficient AI systems. The release includes two variants, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both offering a standardised context length of up to one mill...
Robbyant, the embodied AI company within Ant Group, announced the open-sourcing of LingBot-Map, a new streaming 3D reconstruction model. This innovative technology empowers robots, autonomous vehicles, and AR devices to perceive and understand their three-dimensional surroundings in real-time using ...
