AI Insights & News

Record Scale July 17-20. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance opens in Shanghai. The numbers: 1,100+ companies exhibiting — a record 3

What Happened July 11. Douyin's official account posted a notice: a special campaign against AI-mocked classic children's cartoons has processed 23,400 violating videos and suspended 1,300 accounts.

Ten Times the Quota July 7. WeChat Open Class announced the Mini-Program Growth Plan upgrade: LLM token quota jumps from 100 million to 1 billion, AI image generation from 10K to 100K. The model sta

An Internal Letter July 11. Zhipu founder Tang Jie sent an internal letter named Touch High — the Reach-High Plan. Its weight isn't in slogans but in laying out Zhipu's two-year direction clearly: n

Tonight's the Night July 13, 7PM, Shanghai. StepFun is holding a launch event — the StepFun Terminal Brand and Next-Gen Agent Strategy Release. One-line pitch: the world's first AI agent smartphone.

Meta's Glasses Want to Listen Forever: "Super Sensing" Plan Exposed, and the Light Stays Off On July 8, the Financial Times dropped a bombshell. Meta is internally prototyping AI smart glasses coden

Cursor Isn't Just Writing Code Anymore: Secret Project Sand Wants Your Inbox On July 9, The Information dropped a scoop. Cursor — the company that blew up thanks to its AI code editor — is secretly

OpenAI Stops Making You Chat. It Wants You to Work. On July 10, OpenAI did something big. ChatGPT officially merged with Codex. They launched something called ChatGPT Work. Not a new chat box — an a

ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro: 4K native + layer editing, image generator becomes a design tool July 9, ByteDance released Seedream 5.0 Pro. On the surface, another AI image model. But this one's d

GPT-Live launches: AI that listens while it talks, 150 million weekly users July 8, OpenAI released GPT-Live. Unlike the old Advanced Voice Mode, this is true full-duplex — the AI can listen and