China's leading online search provider was among five outfits allowed to release their AI bots to the public, sending tech shares upwards

Regulators say the measures will not apply to firms who don't intend to offer their generative AI services to the Chinese public to encourage development of the technology

The Beijing-based search engine giant says its AI chatbot, Ernie 3.5, beat OpenAI’s market leader in several key metrics

Tokyo’s regulator is one of many around the world scrambling to establish rules over the use of generative artificial intelligence

The tech giant will also launch a competition for developers to build applications off its Ernie bot in the race to catch up with Microsoft’s ChatGPT

Wang Weibao, who was indicted by the US this week for stealing sensitive technology, stole “the entirety of Apple’s 'autonomous' source code”

Authorities have detained a man for generating a fake story that claimed a train crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu

Pony.ai started driverless testing in Guangzhou in June 2021 and has accumulated nearly 200,000 fee-charging robotaxi orders globally as of this month

"Until our company's official announcement, any Ernie app you see from App Store or other stores are fake," the Chinese search engine giant said in a statement

The format was changed to satisfy the 'strong demand' from 120,000 companies that had applied to test Ernie Bot, the search giant said

Ernie bot responded in a similar manner to questions about China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and the treatment of Uyghur Muslims

"Ernie Bot is not a tool of confrontation between China and the United States," said Baidu CEO Robin Li.