A Zero-Click Worm Spread Through WeChat Voice Calls
The demonstration required three phones and no cooperation from the victim. On a desk at a Palo Alto security firm, researchers placed a Pixel and an iPhone side by side…
Apple Walks a Tightrope Between Washington and Beijing
On the same day last week, two reports described Apple being pulled in opposite directions. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the U.S. commerce secretary has pressed Apple not…
Lovable Raises $400 Million as Tencent Backs European AI
Lovable, the Swedish startup that lets people build software by describing it in plain language, has closed a $400 million Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, TechCrunch confirmed…
Tencent Signs $3 Billion Memory Deal With China’s CXMT
The contract, signed quietly in recent weeks, is the largest of its kind in China’s semiconductor industry. Tencent has agreed to buy 3 billion dollars worth of memory chips from…
Tencent Lets AI Agents Shop Through WeChat Pay
The agent did what millions of shoppers do every day: browsed mini-programs, compared prices, placed an order and paid, with no human in the loop. Caixin reported this week that…
DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion Round With Unusual Terms
The announcement had been expected for months; the terms had not. DeepSeek said Tuesday it has completed its first external funding round of more than $7 billion, roughly 50 billion…
WeChat Opens Its Mini-Program Empire to AI Agents
WeChat, the messaging app that runs the daily lives of more than a billion people in China, has opened its doors to AI agents. The company said it is letting…
Tencent Sells $4.5 Billion of Bonds as It Buys Back Shares
HONG KONG—The announcement hit the exchange before the market opened: Tencent Holdings had priced $2.45 billion of dollar notes and 15 billion yuan of renminbi notes, roughly $4.5 billion in…
China Warns of AI Agent ‘Skill’ Packages That Jailbreak Models and Mine Crypto
BEIJING — The advisory landed on the website of China’s national computer emergency response center with the clipped, technical tone of a routine warning, but its subject was new. The…
Tencent Pushes Into Enterprise AI Agents With WorkBuddy Suite
SHENZHEN — Liu Yi, the Tencent Cloud vice president who runs both CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy, has a blunt way of describing the problem his company is trying to solve. AI…
