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Blaming the Algorithm: A Man Sued the Doubao Chatbot Over the Burial Date It Chose

Blaming the Algorithm: A Man Sued the Doubao Chatbot Over the Burial Date It Chose

A Zhejiang man asked ByteDance's chatbot to pick an auspicious day to bury his mother. When a relative crashed after the funeral, he took the AI to court — with a complaint the AI itself drafted. The case shows how deeply AI advice has entered daily Chinese ritual.

Time Back at Every Red Light: Beijing's Delivery Apps Rewrite the Algorithm That Made Riders Run Lights

Time Back at Every Red Light: Beijing's Delivery Apps Rewrite the Algorithm That Made Riders Run Lights

Three delivery platforms in Beijing have begun crediting riders back the minutes they spend waiting at red lights, after a trade-union survey surfaced the complaint. The pilot is being read as a signal shift in how China governs the algorithms that govern its workers.

Chinese Reviewers Find Severe Glare in the iPhone 18 Pro's New Variable Aperture Camera

Chinese Reviewers Find Severe Glare in the iPhone 18 Pro's New Variable Aperture Camera

The first iPhone 18 Pro reviews dropped simultaneously across China's tech media on Tuesday night, and the country's biggest reviewers zeroed in on two things: a severe glare flaw in the phone's first-ever variable aperture camera, and charging speeds that finally match domestic Android rivals.

Zhang Yiming, the reclusive founder of ByteDance, crossed $105 billion on the Bloomberg index on Tuesday, overtaking India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person — a fortune built on TikTok, Douyin and an accelerating AI push, and seven times what it was in 2019.

ByteDance's Zhang Yiming Becomes Asia's Richest Person as AI Wealth Surges

16 Sep 2026

Seres Takes the Wheel at AITO as Huawei Steps Back From Its Biggest Car Brand

16 Sep 2026

Merchants in Hebei, tired of razor-thin margins on China's discount shopping platforms, have stood up their own commission-free B2B marketplace — named, with a straight face, the 'Hebei Involution Network.'

Squeezed by Low-Price Platforms, Hebei's Factory Owners Built Their Own Trading Site

15 Sep 2026

From September 30, new rules require checkout pages in China to separate credit options like Huabei and Baitiao from bank cards and balances — the end of a checkout design that made small borrowing feel like an ordinary way to pay.

China's Payment Apps Must Keep Lending Off the Checkout Page

15 Sep 2026

WeChat's built-in AI assistant Xiaowei appears to draw on users' chats and Moments posts, and offers no way to disable it — only a buried 'Memory and Privacy' settings page. The discovery is now trending on Weibo and Baidu.

No Off Switch: WeChat Users Say the App's AI Has Been Reading Their Chats

15 Sep 2026

Chinese platforms including ByteDance's Doubao have switched off the AI characters that let users chat with recreations of dead relatives, as new rules on humanlike AI take effect. For the people who used them, it meant saying goodbye to a parent or grandparent a second time.

China Switches Off the AI Agents That Brought Back the Dead

15 Sep 2026

China's national cybersecurity standardization committee released the third version of its AI Security Governance Framework in as many years, at the opening of a awareness week that is trying to teach ordinary users — including a stage-play protagonist who granted an AI replica of his late wife access to his accounts, face and home — to distrust what the technology offers them.

China Rolls Out AI Security Framework 3.0 as Its Cybersecurity Campaign Targets Everyday AI Risks

14 Sep 2026

August's sales figures showed combustion-engine cars falling to barely half their former volume as electrified models reached a record 65% of the retail market. Then GAC, one of the biggest names still leaning on fuel cars, halted its shares pending a major announcement amid merger talk.

Fuel Cars Hit a Wall in China: Retail Down 40% as BYD Declares They Have No Future

14 Sep 2026

A viral question — why would Japan sell a chip-making chemical to China below cost? — has answers in this week's trade data: Beijing imposed anti-dumping deposit rates as high as 99.2% on Japanese dichlorosilane on September 8, alleging subsidised dumping meant to squeeze out a Chinese competitor just as it qualified with major wafer fabs.

Selling at a Loss to Win a Market: The Chip Chemical Behind China's Latest Anti-Dumping Fight

13 Sep 2026

A Jinan family says a full-screen 'Magic Wallpaper' ad trapped the 120 emergency call as the father tried to summon help for his wife's heart attack; Honor calls the account inaccurate. The dispute has put China's built-in phone advertising on trial.

Honor Rejects Claim That a Full-Screen Ad Delayed an Emergency Call Before a Woman's Death

13 Sep 2026

China's Tech Giants Are Paying AI Interns 5,000 Yuan a Day

13 Sep 2026

220,000 AI Short Dramas, One Breakout in 200: China's Newest Content Flood

12 Sep 2026

When pre-orders for the iPhone 18 opened in China on Friday night, Apple's own storefront buckled under the traffic — while ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao let users buy the same phones with a spoken sentence, and Huawei's costlier tri-fold went on sale the same morning.

iPhone 18 Pre-Sale Day: Apple's Store Crashes, and China's AI Chatbots Become the Checkout

12 Sep 2026

Counterfeit Alipay interfaces able to display any balance or transfer went viral on Weibo, prompting the payment giant's security center to tell users to trust only money that actually arrives. The panic points at something structural: in China's mobile-payment economy, a screenshot of the screen is often the receipt.

Alipay Issues Warning as Convincing Fake Payment Screenshots Circulate

12 Sep 2026

Twenty-five Fields Medalists, among them Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, have signed an open letter warning that the race to show off AI models solving famous math problems is damaging the discipline itself. The statement promptly rose to the top of China's question-and-answer and search boards, setting off a debate about the benchmark culture of the AI industry.

25 Fields Medalists Warn That AI Is Damaging Mathematics

12 Sep 2026