🚨 China removes 14,000 AI products in sweeping regulatory campaign The Cyberspace Administration removed over six million illegal contents. New regulations require registration, security filters, and clear labeling of AI-generated content. The next phase will focus on disinformation and emotional assistants. Tech companies are already adapting their platforms to these measures.

First Anthropic accused Chinese labs of stealing models, now Alibaba is banning Claude Code for its employees... the AI cold war between Anthropic and Alibaba is getting more intense by the day

JUST IN: ByteDance, Alibaba Drop AI Companion Tools Amid China Crackdown

🇨🇳 ONE NIGHT, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN CHINA LOST THEIR AI "PARTNER" - AND THEY NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE #ByteDance and @AlibabaGroup have both quietly disabled AI companion features on Doubao and @Alibaba_Qwen - China's two biggest chatbot apps. The reason? Beijing is rolling out the world's first comprehensive rules targeting "anthropomorphic" AI - bots that simulate human personality and emotion. The regulation takes effect July 15 and specifically bans AI from fostering unhealthy emotional dependency, especially in minors. 📅 Doubao: agent feature shuts down entirely on July 15, data deleted after Oct 15 📅 Qwen: humanlike interactive agents disabled from July 10, no migration plan for saved data Users are flooding #Weibo with complaints - many say these AI companions had become a real source of emotional support, and there's no easy way to export their chat history before it's gone. This could be the first major test case for how the world regulates emotionally engaging AI. China chose to act first; everyone else is watching. 👉 Where do you stand - should AI companions be regulated, or is this a step too far? Drop your take in the comments 💬

JUST IN: Anthropic is facing a $75 million lawsuit alleging it pirated copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models.

BREAKING: Vietnamese police have arrested the suspected operators of HiAnime, the world's largest anime piracy site, following a multi-year investigation supported by US Homeland Security Investigations, the DOJ, and anti-piracy coalition ACE. Four suspects are in custody with three more under travel restrictions. The group allegedly ran over 100 piracy sites since 2020, uploaded more than 26,000 films, and generated roughly $12.85 million in advertising revenue. HiAnime was not a hobbyist operation. It was a scaled commercial business built on stolen content, monetized through mainstream ad networks, and run across more than a hundred domains to survive takedowns. The cross-border coordination is what made this possible. Vietnamese law enforcement, US federal agencies, and a private industry coalition working the same case simultaneously is a model that has repeatedly failed against piracy for two decades. This time it worked.