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A forged AI-style poster offered a "love her, take a loan to bring her home" bride-price loan under Jiangxi Bank's name. The bank says no such product exists and has reported the fabrication to police.

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A Chengdu Startup Wants to Rent Your Face to Advertisers for 500 Yuan a Scene

An app in Chengdu lets ordinary people list their portraits for AI and advertising use, with sellers taking 70 percent of each deal. A bank employee's face was licensed seven times in three days — and made him about 2,500 yuan — a glimpse of a market that lawyers say has outrun the rules.

Engineer-turned-founder Zhi Huijun has unveiled two consumer robots — the Q1 and T1 — marketed as companions meant for daily home life rather than exhibition prototypes, opening pre-orders at a moment when China's humanoid-robot boom is under investor scrutiny.