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
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will extend the two-week ceasefire with Iran that was set to expire on Wednesday night (midnight GMT Tuesday).
"Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The U.S. president said he will "extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other."
The U.S. military will continue the blockade against Iran and "remain ready and able," according to Trump.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X Tuesday that the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports is "an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire" and attacking Iranian merchant ships and detaining their crew members were even more serious violations.
"Iran knows how to neutralize restrictions, how to defend its interests, and how to resist bullying," Araghchi wrote in his post.
Mehdi Mohammadi, an advisor to Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, also said the U.S. blockade must be met with a military response, dismissing Trump's ceasefire extension announcement as "meaningless".
"Extending the ceasefire by Trump has no meaning. The losing side cannot dictate terms. Continuing the blockade is no different from bombing and must be met with a military response. Moreover, any extension of the ceasefire by Trump is certainly a way to buy time for a surprise attack. Now is the time for Iran to take the initiative," Mohammadi posted on X.
Trump extends ceasefire; Iran vows military response to naval blockade
