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- Doubao Phone Assistant SAEP notice ends with 155 apps refusing AI control
On 14 October the 30-day notice period for the Doubao Phone Assistant's Screen Automation Operation Declaration Protocol (SAEP) ended with 155 apps opting out of AI automation — 66 from Tencent, 23 from Alibaba, 14 from Kuaishou and 11 from Meituan, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Meituan and Honor of Kings, as well as AI apps like DeepSeek, Kimi and Kling. Users can still install those apps, but cannot have the assistant send WeChat messages, shop on Taobao or order food for them. A first prototype, the M153 (3,499 yuan, December 2025), was blocked for screen reading and simulated taps; the second-generation NaviX Ultra prefers MCP and A2A protocols with taps as a fallback and gives apps 30 days to refuse. Analysts say platforms are protecting entry points, user time, recommendation power and data ownership; rival StepFun's STEPX Neo Preview, which only calls APIs apps open voluntarily, has nearly 100 partners including Alipay, Meituan and Didi.
钛媒体 · 🔥 6 - AI toys boom on Chinese e-commerce platforms as return rates top 50%
Tech Planet (republished by 36Kr) reports that AI toys have become a hot new category on Chinese e-commerce: Taobao's AI toy transaction value grew more than 1,600% in 2025, Pinduoduo has just added an AI toy category and begun recruiting merchants, and JD.com offers its own JoyInside platform to power such toys. Prices typically range from 399 yuan to 3,000 yuan, far above 99-yuan blind boxes, and the article cites MIIT figures putting China's AI toy market at 29 billion yuan in 2025 with a projected 34.2 billion yuan in 2026. The flip side is heavy homogenization and difficult, unstable connectivity, with return rates persistently above 50%; vendors lean on hardware-plus-subscription models and one says it uses Doubao domestically and ChatGPT overseas.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 5 - Doubao Phone Assistant's SAEP window closes with no major app opting in
An analysis published by TMTPost says ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant launched an agent authorization disclosure mechanism (internally called SAEP) on Sept. 14, giving partner apps a 30-day window to decide whether to let Doubao act as an agent on users' behalf; the window closed Oct. 14, and the author says that when checking the list on Oct. 15, WeChat, Alipay, Taobao, Meituan, Pinduoduo, DiDi and Xiaohongshu had all declined. The piece argues the obstacle is not model capability but super-apps' control of entry points, the value of user behavior data, and uncertain compliance around payments and personal information, adding that an unnamed phone maker's agent platform reportedly met similar refusals. It cites Meta Muse, Grok Bot, OpenAI Operator and Anthropic Computer Use as comparisons, while noting US sites also block automated agents via robots.txt, anti-scraping measures and login risk controls.
钛媒体 · 🔥 3 - Every app is cramming in AI — and users are getting tired of it
A widely syndicated report from Mirror Studio examines user "AI fatigue" as apps of all kinds add AI features. It cites QuestMobile data showing that in 2025 the year-on-year growth in monthly per-user usage frequency for embedded AI plugins was 2.8 times that of standalone AI apps, with usage-time growth at 3.3 times, and points to examples such as WeChat's grey-test of the AI agent "Xiaowei" in June 2026 and China Mobile placing an AI assistant in the center of its bottom navigation bar. Product managers interviewed say companies build AI both to open new user paths and out of fear of falling behind, with lower integration barriers and model costs reducing the cost of trial and error, while users mainly object to AI that adds little value and cannot be turned off.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Alibaba's 1688 opens AI e-commerce workbench Accio to 100M+ buyers
On October 13, Alibaba's digital supply-chain platform 1688 said it is fully integrating Accio, its global AI e-commerce workbench, letting its more than 100 million annual active buyers and over 1 million source factories sign in with 1688 accounts. Buyers get a sourcing assistant covering 1688 and Alibaba.com for finding and comparing suppliers in 128 countries, plus an e-commerce steward agent that links Taobao, Tmall, Douyin, Pinduoduo and JD.com so purchasing and store operations sit in one place; sellers bind their store to the '1688 Business Assistant' for listings, ad analysis and customer handling. Separately, LatePost reported that Alibaba's Qwen Office is building an e-commerce edition with a team of nearly 100 people, targeted for launch before the Double 11 presale, though it currently works more as a cross-platform analytics and content workbench than an autonomous store operator.
36氪快讯 · 🔥 0 - Double 11 shifts to AI shopping guides as platforms tie subsidies to ad spend
An analysis published by TMTPost argues the 18th Double 11 festival has been stretched into a shopping season of more than a month, with platforms cutting back coupon-stacking rules while linking subsidies to how much merchants spend on advertising. Alimama's Double 11 coupons are allocated by AI according to a merchant's ad spending, with qualifying brands receiving up to 55% back in performance-ad credits, while JD.com's "Steady Profit" scheme compensates for gaps against system-recommended ROI targets and returns up to 12% for higher ad spend. The piece also says Douyin added a Doubao section to its merchant dashboard, and that Taobao's Qwen shopping assistant and JD's smart shopping guide are competing for a new discovery entry point, citing JD figures that order costs fell 15%-27% for assets optimized to its product-data standard versus generic AI assets.
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