Qianwen will roll out a Personal Agent, Qianwen Go, able to book car maintenance, schedule sports appointments and conduct shopping price comparisons. Since launching last year, Qianwen has leveraged the Alibaba ecosystem and its open platform to enable shopping, ride-hailing, delivery and wealth-management capabilities.

ByteDance’s Seed issued an internal memo announcing a new Seed Model-Alignment&Preparedness department, to be led by Yan Lin and reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui. The existing Responsible AI team and parts of the Chat team will transfer into the unit. The department will scale safety and alignment work—aligning model behavior with human intent and safety constraints—to strengthen agent-model safety and mitigate frontier-capability risks, including CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear).

The EU adopted a decision to establish a support mission for Lebanon.