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Updates on Tencent

Every AI story we track on Tencent — 34 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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Today's stories

Cybersecurity6 min read

Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

The Next Web
Consumer Tech5 min read

China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

The Next Web

This week

Social Media8 min read

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

IEEE Spectrum
Design5 min read

Exhibit of 2026 AI Agents

Hacker News

This month

Dev4 min read

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

TechCrunch
AI Research1 min read

China's daily AI token usage tops 500T as compute demand grows

Hacker News
Robotics5 min read

Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

Covered by 2 sources
Robotics3 min read

XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment

AI Business
Robotics5 min read

XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation

Covered by 2 sources
AI Research7 min read

AI Is Rewriting Mathematics

Hacker News
Chips & Compute2 min read

China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips

Engadget
Chips & Compute4 min read

Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

The Next Web
AI Research6 min read

Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

Rest of World
Social Media4 min read

China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners

Hacker News
Robotics2 min read

DeepSeek Invests in Unitree to Develop AI Brain for Humanoid Bots

AI Business

Tencent Opens Hy3 to Global Users Across Products and Cloud

Unite.AI

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)

Techmeme
Machine Learning5 min read

Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

Interconnects
Dev7 min read

Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models

MarkTechPost

Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

The Next Web

A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn

The Next Web
Machine Learning5 min read

The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

TechCrunch
AI Research4 min read

The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants

The Next Web
Agents4 min read

Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder

The Next Web

Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake

The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read

Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

The Next Web
Agents3 min read

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

The Next Web
Video Generation3 min read

Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business

The Next Web

WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout

The Next Web

Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’

The Next Web

Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster

The Next Web
That's everything we have on Tencent right now