( July 7, 2026, 04:40 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: China has removed more than 14,000 illegal artificial intelligence products, including websites, apps and AI agents, since the country's cyberspace authorities launched a nationwide campaign against AI application abuses in April, the country's top internet regulator said. Additionally, more than 6 million illegal posts were deleted, over 26,000 accounts were shut down and more than 1,300 noncompliant AI products and nine open-source datasets were removed. Local authorities have stepped up oversight through platform self-inspections, technical screening and routine audits, while companies including Huawei, Alibaba, Zhipu AI, MiniMax and DeepSeek have strengthened AI safeguards with tools ranging from digital fingerprinting to multimodal content review and anomaly-detection systems.Statement follows (in Chinese). ...
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