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Douyin Cracks Down: 1,300 AI-Mocked Kids Cartoon Accounts Suspended, 23,400 Videos Pulled
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.
WeChat Gives 10 Billion Tokens Plus Hunyuan Hy3: Mini-Program Devs Stop Watching the Quota Bar
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
Zhipu Internal Letter Revealed: Betting on AI Operating System and Self-Designed Chips
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 7PM: StepFun Launches World's First AI Agent Phone, Rivals ZTE Nubia
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 Super Sensing Glasses Exposed: Always Recording, and the Light Stays Off
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's Secret Project Sand: The Code Editor Wants to Run Your Inbox
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
ChatGPT Stops Chatting, Starts Working: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work
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, AI Image Generator Becomes a Design Tool
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: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice AI, 150 Million Weekly Users
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
Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat: Trained on Domestic Chips, Zero NVIDIA
Meituan open-sources 1.6T model: trained entirely on domestic chips, zero NVIDIA July 2, Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0. 1.6T parameter MoE, 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, pricing at $0.038 per millio
Grok 4.5 Launches: Coding #1, But CursorBench Scores Inflated by Training Data Contamination
Grok 4.5 is here: coding champion, but caught cheating July 9, SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5. It's the first model under the unified SpaceXAI brand after xAI merged in. 1.5T parameter MoE, $2/$6 pr
Meta's First Paid API: Muse Spark 1.1 Targets GPT-5.5, Open-Weights Path Shifting?
Meta just did something big: its first paid API is live, and the open-weights path is shifting July 9, Meta released Muse Spark 1.1. The specs alone aren't shocking — 1M token context, agentic c