Today's stories Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls T The Next Web 3h ago China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening. T The Next Web 21h ago This week China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends” I IEEE Spectrum 1d ago Exhibit of 2026 AI Agents H Hacker News 6d ago This month BUUU Group to Buy 60% of Brightray in AI Data Center Push U Unite.AI 7d ago Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M T TechCrunch 10d ago Introducing Hy4 Preview S Simon Willison's Weblog 12d ago China's daily AI token usage tops 500T as compute demand grows H Hacker News 13d ago Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway V Vercel 14d ago Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn T T Covered by 2 sources 16d ago XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment A AI Business 16d ago XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation U T Covered by 2 sources 17d ago AI Is Rewriting Mathematics H Hacker News 19d ago China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips E Engadget 22d ago Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China T The Next Web 22d ago Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers R Rest of World 25d ago China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners H Hacker News 29d ago DeepSeek Invests in Unitree to Develop AI Brain for Humanoid Bots A AI Business Aug 7 Tencent Opens Hy3 to Global Users Across Products and Cloud U Unite.AI Aug 5 Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) T Techmeme Aug 2 Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier I Interconnects Aug 2 Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models M MarkTechPost Jul 30 Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there T The Next Web Jul 22 A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn T The Next Web Jul 17 The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier T TechCrunch Jul 14 The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants T The Next Web Jul 10 Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder T The Next Web Jul 10 Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake T The Next Web Jul 6 Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise T The Next Web Jul 6 ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite T The Next Web Jul 5 Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business T The Next Web Jul 2 WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout T The Next Web Jun 22 Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’ T The Next Web Jun 15 Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster T The Next Web Apr 3 That's everything we have on Tencent right now