China Turns Off AI on Test Day

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News of the Day

China Shuts AI for Big Exam Day

China Disables AI Chatbots During National Exam to Prevent Cheating

During Gaokao, China's most important university entrance exam, major tech companies like Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Moonshot temporarily disabled key features of their AI chatbots to prevent cheating. This decision affects more than 13 million students whose futures depend on this exam.

• Companies like Tencent and Alibaba disabled AI features such as image recognition and question answering during exam hours.

• Chatbots like YuanBao, Doubao, Qwen, and Kimi displayed messages about fairness when users tried to ask questions or upload test images.

• The Chinese government, while promoting AI education, warned students not to use AI tools for cheating during exams.

Gaokao is the main gateway to higher education and jobs in China. It is especially important for students from less privileged areas. As powerful AI tools become more common, steps like this show how countries are adapting to protect fairness and integrity in critical exams.

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2nd News of the Day

Apple's AI Game Still Weak?

Apple Opens WWDC 2025 with Fresh Features, But AI Still Lags Behind

Apple started its WWDC 2025 event by showing off new design, customization, and naming updates across its products. However, the spotlight on Apple Intelligence was dim, with only minor improvements announced.

• Live Translation now works in real-time during Messages, FaceTime, and calls, all processed on-device for better privacy.

• New visual intelligence lets users search for similar items on screen and ask ChatGPT about images.

• The Shortcuts app can now use AI and ChatGPT to help automate actions.

Even though Apple added some AI tools, they feel small compared to what other tech companies are doing. This adds to the idea that 2025 might be an AI "gap year" for Apple, showing a rare moment where it's not leading the trend.

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Everything else

🥅 Own Goal: X users are roasting Apple for publishing a study about reasoning models’ weaknesses while struggling to build an LLM itself. In all seriousness though, the research study has led to some really fascinating discussions.

🕊️ Hope Restored: A Redditor claims ChatGPT became an unexpected lifeline after their unemployment claim was denied, giving them a detailed plan for what to do next. “It helped me take my power back,” they wrote.

📹 Clever Workaround: One way to deal with video models’ character consistency issues? Make everyone a stormtrooper. One Instagram account has allegedly racked up 8M views in just a day by using Veo 3 to generate stormtrooper vlogs.

📺 Bigger Picture: A viral thread shows off Chinese startup 4DV’s new “4D video” platform, which lets you change the camera angle, zoom in or out, etc. while watching movies.

🤖 Tab Master: In this six-minute tutorial, AI educator Paul Couvert shows how to use Gemini 2.5 Pro to power your own agentic browser.

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