# AI
Latest news and articles about AI
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ByteDance Pulls Doubao’s Live Video Calls — A Pause That Reveals China’s Tightrope on AI Interactivity
ByteDance has temporarily suspended Doubao’s video‑call feature, reflecting concerns about moderation, privacy, and operational costs tied to real‑time generative audiovisual interactions. The pause signals how Chinese tech firms are balancing product innovation with regulatory compliance and reputational risk as they race to match advanced Western AI models.
WeChat Goes Gold for Lunar New Year: AI Songs, Golden Moments and Red‑Envelope Gamification
Tencent has introduced a suite of WeChat features for the Lunar New Year—golden Moments that can drop red envelopes when liked, AI‑generated New Year songs, and customizable red‑packet covers. The updates are designed to boost engagement, encourage payments, and create shareable seasonal content, while raising questions about data use and regulatory attention.
China’s Tech Giants Wage an AI-Powered Red-Envelope War to Win Spring Festival Attention
During the Lunar New Year, Tencent, ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms launched a wave of AI‑branded giveaways and UI changes to drive engagement. From gold‑coloured WeChat Moments and ten‑thousand‑yuan vouchers to hourly red‑packet rains and gala‑tie‑in prizes, companies are using festive incentives to rebuild user habits and showcase AI features.
Token Tsunami and Power Limits Propel a Boom in Liquid‑Cooled AI Servers
Exploding AI token consumption and rising hardware costs are driving a surge in rented AI compute and accelerating adoption of liquid‑cooled, high‑density servers. Policy limits on data‑centre energy efficiency and the shift from training to widespread inference are making immersion cooling and edge deployment central to scaling AI affordably and sustainably.
Markets at a Crossroads: AI Frenzy, Fed Timing and the Gold–Silver Litmus Test
Markets are exhibiting high-speed, narrative-driven volatility driven by conflicting signals from labor and inflation data and the AI debate. Next week's US Q4 GDP release and the performance of software stocks—and the divergence between gold and silver—will be pivotal in determining whether the recent sell-off ends or resumes.
China’s AI New-Year Sprint Exposes a New Scarcity: Token Inflation and Rising Compute Prices
China’s major tech firms used the 2026 Lunar New Year to launch a wave of multimodal AI models, precipitating a rapid rise in token-based inference demand. The surge is pushing cloud prices up, giving model vendors pricing leverage while exposing supply, governance and geopolitical risks.
Chengdu Turns Spring Festival Footfall into a Launchpad for AI and Robotics
During the Lunar New Year, Chengdu’s Chunxi Road hosted an AI‑focused consumer launch festival that paired hands‑on demonstrations and a robot pop‑up with a nearby large‑scale robot marketplace. Jinjiang District frames the effort as part of a strategic “first‑release economy” to speed lab‑to‑market conversion and build a linked innovation‑and‑retail ecosystem.
Meituan’s High-Stakes Gamble: Heavy Losses, a Fresh‑Food Buy and an AI Push to Hold the Delivery Crown
Meituan disclosed a dramatic shift to an estimated 2025 net loss of RMB 233–243 billion, yet has chosen to intensify strategic investments—buying Dingdong’s China fresh‑food business and upgrading its AI assistant—to protect its instant retail and delivery moat. The move underscores a broader industry turning point from subsidy‑led growth to a capital‑and‑efficiency contest over logistics, AI and fulfilment.
Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek Trials 1‑Million‑Token Context Window in App — API Still Capped at 128K
DeepSeek is testing a new long‑context model in its web and app interfaces that supports roughly one million tokens, while its public API remains limited to 128K token context on version 3.2. The trial highlights the commercial and technical trade‑offs involved in bringing ultra‑long context windows to production and signals intensifying competition in China’s AI landscape.
Anthropic’s $30bn Haul Pushes Valuation to $380bn — Wall Street Poised for an AI IPO Showdown
Anthropic raised about $30 billion in a financing that values the AI startup at around $380 billion, placing it with OpenAI and SpaceX among the most valuable private companies. The round cements deep commercial ties with Microsoft and other cloud and chip vendors, sharpens the race toward high‑profile AI IPOs, and highlights risks around profitability, compute concentration and regulatory scrutiny.
China’s ¥100bn Lunar New Year ‘Red‑Packet’ War Exposes an Emerging AI Compute Crunch
China’s Spring Festival promotional campaigns—collectively worth nearly ¥100 billion—have driven extreme traffic spikes that briefly knocked services offline and highlighted a growing mismatch between consumer‑facing AI adoption and available compute capacity. Firms are ramping cloud and data‑centre investments even as advances in models and token windows multiply inference demand, creating cross‑cutting pressures on energy systems and commodity supply chains.
China’s Tech Giants Turn Spring Festival into an AI‑Fuelled Red‑Envelope Arms Race
China’s leading tech platforms have launched an extraordinary Lunar New Year promotional battle that blends cash red packets, steep discounts and AI features, with announced spends approaching 10 billion yuan (~$1.4bn). The campaigns aim not only to drive immediate consumption but to train users on AI interactions and lock them into each firm’s ecosystem.