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Chinese technology conglomerate known for WeChat and QQ messaging, gaming, and cloud services, which also develops the Hunyuan family of AI models.
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Tencent Zhuque Lab's RogueHandoff-20 benchmark finds one poisoned handoff lifts receiving agents' harm rates from 0-5% to 40-95% across four routes. Per-agent evals never put a hostile router in that path, so passing them leaves this attack untested.
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Photon raised $4.5 million to help developers run AI agents inside iMessage and WhatsApp, citing over 40,000 developer sign-ups. Its open-source version still accounts for 98% of use, so the paying side of the bet is early.
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Tencent signed a five-year lease worth about $7bn for 100,000 GPUs in Oracle's Southeast Asian data centers, the Financial Times reported. About 30 percent is due upfront, so chips that US export controls keep out of China still come with a purchase-sized cash bill.
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Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent disabled or limited AI companion features as China's rules for anthropomorphic AI took effect on July 15. Their retreat is the clearest estimate yet of what companion engagement is worth once a provider has to watch every user for signs of dependency.
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Tencent has reportedly agreed to pay Oracle about $7 billion over five years to rent 100,000 AI chips in Southeast Asia, with roughly 30% paid immediately. Oracle is burning cash, so the deal would give it money up front, and Tencent would get chips that never enter China.
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SemiAnalysis's count of more than 1,000 Chinese datacenters puts the operating fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA or the rest of Asia. For listed landlords such as GDS and VNET, the open question moves from how big the market is to how much rent its largest tenants will pay.
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Manus 2.0 lets agents fire on email and Slack events and stay online on dedicated cloud computers, with a harness Manus says cost 32% less in one test. Manus has not described that test, so the 32% is a figure for its own workload until someone reruns it elsewhere.
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Manus gave each Cue agent its own email, phone number and wallet on Sept. 28, four days after Salt Labs disclosed an email-borne injection flaw. The reported controls cap what an obedient agent spends, while the flaw worked by getting an agent to obey an attacker's email.
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China's industry ministry told ByteDance and Alibaba it intends to approve Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 purchases, and ByteDance is weighing about 1 million cards. Washington has not said whether the card can ship, so Nvidia's China supply belongs in capacity plans as a contingency.
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China asked Alibaba and ByteDance how many Nvidia RTX Pro 5500s they want, with H200 deliveries at a few percent of the 400,000-plus it approved. Shipments sit far below both governments' ceilings, so the limit is in the conditions and oversight attached to them.
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China's tech ministry told some firms it intends to approve buying Nvidia's 84GB RTX Pro 5500, The Information reported, citing two unnamed sources. Reuters could not verify it, so China GPU planners have a signal to track until cards reach the mainland.
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China forced Meta to reverse a completed acquisition of Manus, then codified outbound-investment review on July 1. Chinese-origin startups now carry post-close reversal risk.
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Washington swapped a ban for case-by-case licenses. Bernstein expects Nvidia's China AI chip share to fall to about 8% in 2026, and buyers say domestic parts will take 46% of accelerator budgets.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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Every net dollar goes to AI infrastructure, three days after quarterly profit fell 75%. For anyone buying cloud AI, that changes which number tells you whether capacity arrives.
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Acronis says the operator borrowed a security vendor's own uninstall driver to shut down Defender on Cambodian machines, and the loader keeps three further ways to blind an agent if the kernel route fails.
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Hy4 preview carries 2.6 times Hy3's parameters and 3.9 times its context window. Tencent is giving the weights away. That means the build column in next quarter's model budget gets priced in accelerator memory rather than in tokens.
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Calif's WeWorm abused a memory corruption bug in WeChat's VoIP stack to take over accounts on an iPhone 17e and two Pixel 10a handsets, and Tencent blocked it server-side on 28 August without publishing an advisory or a CVE.
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The AI chipmaker's shares closed 179 percent above the offer price on Shanghai's Star Market, and the revenue behind that valuation came almost entirely from Tencent, which owns 20 percent of the company and buys most of its chips.
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Gen Digital found the chain while working a live UNC3569 intrusion. Tencent's April 2026 fix closed the link handler and left the bundled Chromium 80 in place, with its sandbox still switched off in the code.
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