China Internet Civilization Conference calls for enhanced AI safety, regulation

The 2025 China Internet Civilization Conference, held in Hefei City in east China's Anhui Province, highlighted AI safety and regulation at its AI sub-conference, calling for enhancing AI controllability amid the rapid development of AI technology and application.

Themed "Gathering Positive Energy Online and Fostering New Trends of the Times", the event, held from Tuesday to Wednesday, scrutinized AI technology development and application, with a special sub-conference held on Tuesday, focusing on high-quality development and controllability of AI.

During the sub-conference, a safety guidance on providing generative AI services to minors was released, requiring AI enterprises to fulfill their principal responsibilities and build a minor-friendly AI service system.

In addition, the China Media Group (CMG) also briefed on building high-quality multi-model Chinese corpus, and promoting new quality productive forces development with its CMG Media GPT 2.0, featuring AI-empowered media with Chinese characteristics and high controllability.

China Internet Civilization Conference calls for enhanced AI safety, regulation

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 20 pips to 7.0108 against the U.S. dollar Monday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.

Chinese yuan strengthens to 7.0108 against USD Monday