SAEP

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1. 2d
   155 apps reject Doubao Phone Assistant's SAEP protocol, leaving its agent vision stalled

   TMTPost's Guangzhui Intelligence reports that Doubao Phone Assistant published the results of its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) disclosure period on Oct 14, listing 155 apps that formally refused to let its AI act on their behalf — including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, Kuaishou, DeepSeek, Kimi, Pinduoduo, Xiaohongshu, WPS and several bank and carrier apps, with 66 Tencent-linked and 23 Alibaba-linked entries. ByteDance framed SAEP — with its three layers of app-declared boundaries, centralized policy decisions and system-level enforcement — as a way to set rules for GUI agents, but the report attributes the refusals to lost traffic gatekeeping and privacy worries, noting WeChat and Alipay had already triggered risk controls against the first Doubao phone. The piece contrasts this with StepFun's STEPX Neo, launched Oct 13, which takes an MCP+A2A approach and whose Amoo agent has partnerships with nearly 100 companies including Alipay, Tencent, Ctrip and Meituan, and with Meta's Muse, which Amazon cut off from shopping 13 days after launch.

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2. 3d
   Doubao Phone Assistant opens screen automation; 155 apps opt out

   Doubao Phone Assistant said the 30-day public notice period for its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) has ended, so it will gradually open screen-automation access to third-party apps: those that pass risk assessment and have not explicitly objected can be controlled via simulated GUI taps and screen recognition. The refusal list published the same day grew from an initial 151 to 155 apps, including 66 from Tencent (WeChat, QQ, Honor of Kings, Tencent Yuanbao), 23 from Alibaba (Taobao, Alipay, Amap, DingTalk, Qwen), plus 14 from Kuaishou, 11 from Meituan, and AI peers DeepSeek and Kimi. Doubao said the refusals cover only agent-driven operations, not manual use of those apps on devices such as the Nubia M153 and NaviX Ultra, and that developers can opt out at any time, with support shut off within three working days.

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3. Oct 9
   An AI phone that runs errands: Nubia NaviX Ultra raises questions

   Nubia's NaviX Ultra, a production phone promoted as the second-generation "Doubao phone," went on sale last month starting at 5,999 yuan (5,499 yuan after China's national subsidy), with Nubia saying first-sale revenue "broke 100 million in one second." Its assistant can open apps such as WeChat, JD.com and Meituan but cannot yet complete in-app actions: ByteDance's Doubao introduced SAEP, a screen-automation declaration protocol giving third-party apps a 30-day notice period to say whether they accept GUI agent operations, and the commentary warns the device could become a "ByteDance-only phone" if mainstream apps refuse. The piece questions whether the efficiency pitch matches real usage, citing 201 minutes of daily online audiovisual use per user, a meta-analysis of 71 studies with 98,299 participants finding a moderate negative correlation (r = -0.34) between short-video use and cognitive function, and a study of 26,811 students that reported short-term homework gains but declines in later exam scores.

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