Asian tech roundup: Australia bans TikTok

Plus: Alibaba gets into AI, and India refuses to regulate

Tom Allen
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Asian tech roundup: Australia bans TikTok

Welcome to Computing's fortnightly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Australia joining the growing global move against TikTok in the public sector; Alibaba's generative AI tool; and India's commitment to its 2018 regulations.

China Tech giant Alibaba has announced plans for its own generative AI chatbot called Tongyi Qianwen. It first plans to add the bot, able to work in both English and Chinese, to its workplace m...

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