EventPolicyJuly 13, 2026

China cracks down on AI companion bots and humanlike agents

Beijing's first rules targeting emotional AI force ByteDance and Alibaba to remove agent features. Thirty-one internet companies, including Baidu and Tencent, signed a self-regulatory pact on AI agent data protection.

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