AI Agents
ByteDance's Feishu Agent: "First to Pass Dual Certification" Is Testing
Doubao Work logs in through Feishu and inherits the enterprise's context within the user's permission scope. That design decision is the whole product.
5d ago
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China AI Regulation
China Signed CNY 136.1B Compute Deals, Yet 28.6% of Racks Sit Empty
Both numbers were released at the same conference in Hohhot. Only one of them will travel, and it is not the occupancy rate.
Aug 22, 2026
Nvidia
First H200s Reached China, But Beijing Kept Them in Hong Kong
About 10,000 chips each to ByteDance and Tencent, against a US licence permitting 100,000 apiece — and a domestic-industry instruction that keeps them off the mainland.
Aug 19, 2026
AI Agents
ByteDance's Doubao Now Drives Windows Apps — in a Desktop That Leaves Your Mouse Alone
No MCP, no API, no plugins. The assistant reads the screen and clicks, in an isolated session so it does not fight you for the keyboard.
Aug 18, 2026
China AI Regulation
Hollywood and ByteDance Signed an MOU, Not a Licence
Six months after a cease-and-desist over Seedance 2.0, the MPA has a framework with ByteDance that grants no rights, releases no claims and says nothing about training data.
Aug 18, 2026
AI Agents
Doubao Now Takes 12% of Every Hotel Booking It Makes
ByteDance's assistant started charging merchants on 10 August. An AI chat surface just became a distribution channel with a take rate.
Aug 12, 2026
Finance AI
SoftBank Beat Forecast 3X, With Intel Driving The Gain
Net income of ¥347.3bn against a ¥120bn consensus, driven by a ¥1.333trn writeup on Intel shares. The position everyone watches — $64.6bn committed to OpenAI — produced neither a gain nor a loss.
Aug 6, 2026
China AI Regulation
ByteDance and Alibaba Kill Custom AI Companions Before China's July 15 Rules
China's rules for humanlike AI take effect July 15 — and rather than retrofit compliance, Doubao and Qwen are shutting their custom agents down, with user data on a deletion clock.
Jul 7, 2026
