
Network access permits from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology include Alibaba's Qwen and Tongyi Wanxiang alongside Apple Intelligence.
China cleared a regulatory hurdle for Apple Intelligence by approving Alibaba's AI models for integration into Apple handsets, including the iPhone Duo, in the Chinese market.
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Apple Intelligence faced delayed launch in China due to strict domestic AI regulations.
China has granted approval for Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence models to be integrated into several Apple handsets, including the new iPhone Duo, in the Chinese market, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for the long-delayed launch of Apple Intelligence in the country.
Updated network access permits for the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and several earlier Apple models from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology now include three approved AI systems: Apple Intelligence alongside Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang.
Tongyi Qianwen, also known as Qwen, is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, while Tongyi Wanxiang specialises in AI text-to-image and video generation. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
From October 14th to 16th, the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Industry Conference was held in Jinan. This is the first time that a national AI conference has left Beijing. Shandong, which has all 41 major industrial categories, is accelerating the promotion of new industrialization empowered by artificial intelligence by overcoming the three test questions of industrial corpus, model credibility and industry collaboration.

Meta announced that Facebook has launched a new AI function "Your Algorithm", which combines a large language model to allow users to adjust dynamic news and Reels recommended content in real time through conversations, solving the problem of past system misjudgment of preferences.

A user posted on Reddit that the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses record daily conversations without starting them up and save them as audio files and verbatim transcripts, involving second- and third-generation models. Meta confirmed that the anomaly has been fixed but did not explain the cause or scope of the impact, raising privacy and security concerns.

The Ministry of Digital Development has promoted Taiwan’s sovereign AI training corpus and collected private corpus on a voluntary basis. Currently, it only includes low-controversial content such as public books and book introductions, and has not yet been included in the news media. Legislators are concerned about whether media rights will be affected if news content is expanded in the future, and require the Ministry of Data and Information Technology to explain the authorization, payment mechanism and the direction of protecting the rights and interests of content providers.

Apple has launched the 7-inch HomeView smart display, priced at US$299. It aims to become the hub of family life, integrating entertainment, communication and smart home control. However, because the price is higher than competing products, compatibility is not fully guaranteed, Siri AI is still in the beta stage, and Taiwan is not listed in the first wave of sales regions, it has caused foreign media and consumers to question its practicality and purchase value.

Although artificial intelligence translation performs well when processing proverbs and daily texts, serious errors still occur in professional fields such as law and medicine, such as mistranslation of units or legal terms, leading to potentially significant consequences. Experts warn that even smooth translation does not mean accuracy, and human proofreading is still indispensable.