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Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago China AI WeChat Tencent

Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout (www.ft.com)
23 days ago AI WeChat Tencent

Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-23 AI WeChat Tencent

Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-11 Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-15 WeChat

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-8 Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

Sources: Tencent and Apple agree to a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after a year of talks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-13 Apple WeChat Tencent

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is “currently being developed” for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (www.scmp.com)
2025-6-26 WeChat

Russian intelligence says it collects WeChat data: What does that mean? (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-9 Russia WeChat Intelligence

Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China's WeChat App (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-6-8 Russia China WeChat

DeepSeek completes a “minor trial upgrade” to R1 and says users can now start testing it, according to its post in an official WeChat group (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-28 WeChat

Tencent releases five AI tools to turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-18 AI WeChat Tencent

NOYB files complaints against AliExpress, Shein, TikTok, Xiaomi, Temu, and WeChat over claims they are unlawfully sending EU user data to China (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-16 China WeChat Xiaomi

Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds (www.wired.com)
2025-1-11 WeChat Texas

Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video apps in China dropped for the first time, reaching 1.05B in June 2024, ~300M fewer than in December 2023 (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 China WeChat

Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered image search feature as it tries to become a super app like rival Tencent's WeChat (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 AI WeChat Tencent Alipay

Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need to obtain a license by next year (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-20 Facebook YouTube Instagram WhatsApp WeChat Malaysia

An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses (citizenlab.ca)
2024-10-16 WeChat

Sources: Apple approves a WeChat update for iOS, as talks continue with Tencent to offer IAP and block links to external payment services in mini games (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-6 IOS Apple WeChat Tencent

Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's WeChat Pay on its Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms, as Chinese government crackdown on Alibaba ends (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-9-4 China Alibaba WeChat Tencent

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