ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia
ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. X: @charlesmok , @wired , @zeyiyang , @zeyiyang , @wired...
Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan
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Researchers: DeepSeek's R1 failed to detect or block any of 50 randomly selected malicious prompts; Adversa says DeepSeek's restrictions can easily be bypassed
Unit 42 researchers recently revealed two novel and effective jailbreaking … Victor Tangermann / Futurism : DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found Ivan Novikov / Wallarm : Analy...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
Some researchers say GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning
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The demand for AI tech to preserve, animate, and interact with lost loved ones is especially strong in China, where thousands have already paid to use such tech
Being from Northern Germany, we already have had these for years: We call them “photos” and they are just as talkative as the real deal. 😂 — https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Rachel Courtland /...
Boosted by Taiwan's 2024 elections, Threads has revived its popularity in the country; Sensor Tower says Threads is Taiwan's most downloaded social app
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Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, Baidu's new text-to-image AI model, labels words in political contexts as “sensitive” and blocks them from generating a result
Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @mmitchell_ai , @greatfirechina , and @kwestin Tweets: @mmitchell_ai : “The difficulty of identifying a clear line between censorship and moderation is als...
An interview with a Baidu robotaxi safety operator, who sits in the passenger seat and monitors how self-driving cars cope with Beijing's streets
Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @hkanji , @baidu_inc , and @zeyiyang Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Robotaxi safety operator is an occupation that exists only in our time, the result o...
Africa-based Chinese influencers who post racist videos about Africans on apps like Douyin and Kuaishou made fortunes from China's livestream shopping industry
“Chinese people love watching how other places are not as good as China.” — On the afternoon of May 24, a beauty pageant took place at an apartment in Kitwe, Zambia. Tweets: @feministajones , @ianbe...