Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek suffered a prolonged outage overnight that extended into early Monday morning, disrupting service for hundreds of millions of users, according to a company notice and user feedback. The Hangzhou-based AI lab’s namesake chatbot website and app were offline from Sunday evening, with the company continuing to investigate while issuing fixes…
BEIJING, Sept 20 — China’s internet regulator said today it would take “disciplinary and punitive measures” against popular apps Weibo and Kuaishou for highlighting celebrity news and “undesirable” content, extending a crackdown on social media platforms. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the measures would include “summonses for interviews, injunctions to correct breaches within…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Xiaohongshu, China’s lifestyle-content darling, is starting to look less like a TikTok cloneand more like a profit machine. The Shanghai-based company, known internationally as RedNote, has privately told investors it expects to triple profit this year to $3 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. That puts it…
A Hong Kong medical school has pledged to strengthen measures to uphold professional conduct after an exchange student was found to have posted a photo on social media taken inside an operating theatre, with the hospital involved slamming the “inappropriate” behaviour. The remarks on Saturday by the faculty of medicine at the Chinese University of…
Chinese social media giant RedNote has opened an office in Hong Kong, its first outside mainland China, a move the city’s finance chief hopes will provide a boost to local businesses and the platform’s international expansion. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Saturday that he had personally invited the company, also known as Xiaohongshu,…