Following release of the consultation draft of the Measures to Protect Rights of Workers in New Forms of Employment, seven platforms on Oct. 22 — Meituan, Taobao Flash Sale, SF Intra-city, ZTO Express, Caocao Taxi, T3 Mobility and Didi — issued a joint initiative to promote participation of gig workers in basic medical insurance. The platforms said they will protect gig workers’ medical-insurance rights through five specified measures.

In televised remarks on Saturday, Iranian President PEZESHKIAN blamed the United States for derailing talks on a temporary agreement but said both sides should try again. He said: "We were negotiating at the time; it was those cowardly Americans who wrecked everything... I still think we should continue to try to reach an agreement."

Oct 24 — The Blue Book on Internet Advertising Governance in the AIGC Era was released at the 33rd China International Advertising Festival. It warns AIGC heightens ad-fraud and compliance risk as black/grey-market actors use AI to mass-produce hyper-real creative and fake authoritative endorsements, outstripping manual review. The paper frames risks as content violations, technical adversarial attacks, transaction-chain vulnerabilities and new scenarios, and sets out lifecycle governance across eight areas, endorsing an "AI to govern AI" approach. It highlights multimodal large models that jointly process images, text and audio to judge context and detect violations. Xiao Tao, head of content security strategy at Ocean Engine, said an intelligent review system now clears 90% of creatives in as fast as 10 minutes, boosting review efficiency by roughly 75%.