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According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting a small-scale test of its personal investment analysis assistant "Rena Lan Cai," which has a PC version and a WeChat mini-program, supporting connection to WeChat. This product is positioned as an AI assistant for individual investors, helping users obtain and understand market and company information, and is currently in a small-scale testing phase.The web version breaks down the investment research workflow into visual modules, with core features including market quick reads, individual stock tracking, and AI Q&A. The market quick read summarizes global market dynamics, continuously updated in the morning, noon, closing, and evening, and associates market information with the user's watchlist; the left sidebar allows users to customize stocks of interest and displays real-time market data, while the right side features an intelligent Q&A panel linked to the day's quick read content, supporting follow-up questions about industry rankings, cash flow in financial reports, and more. In addition to the PC version, Rena Lan Cai is also launched as a WeChat mini-program, with basic functionality aligned across both platforms and conversation records shared. The product also appears in the WeChat chat list as a WeChat ClawBot intelligent entity, allowing users to directly access investment research capabilities in the chat window.The report states that Alibaba is also internally testing its AI investment research product Qovest, and Baidu's previously released Kuku AI is also focusing on investment research, as major companies collectively enter the personal investor AI investment research space. Rena Lan Cai essentially serves as an investment research assistance tool, not providing investment advice and avoiding direct trading compliance red lines.

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced a deep integration of WeChat Work and WorkBuddy. In the new version of WeChat Work 5.0.12, WorkBuddy enters the corporate address book, allowing employees to chat with it, assign tasks, or pull it into work groups just like they would with colleagues, for summarizing group chats, organizing meeting to-dos, drafting emails, and returning results directly upon completion.WorkBuddy 5.8.0 supports logging in with a WeChat Work account. Within the scope of corporate authorization, it can access 10 office capabilities including chat messages, documents, meetings, and WeChat Cloud. Employees do not need to repeatedly upload materials, as they can handle tasks by combining previous discussions and project files, with results saved to WeChat Cloud with one click. The WorkBuddy bot can also connect to WeChat Work's built-in AI assistant "DaYuan" to collaboratively handle more complex tasks.Administrators can assign WorkBuddy accounts, set data access permissions, and through the "Observability Center," which will begin public testing on October 13, view the points consumption of various departments, model usage, task duration, and track which specific execution steps encountered issues. The new interoperability features are open to certified WeChat Work enterprises and offer a limited free trial quota.

The WeChat Security Center has released a governance announcement regarding the crackdown on organizers and promoters of illegal activities such as pyramid schemes and fraud. Recently, some black and gray market accounts have falsely claimed to be "national projects," "ethnic asset unfreezing," and "blockchain virtual currencies, stablecoins," using high returns as bait to lure users into groups and implement pyramid-style "referral" schemes. Subsequently, they induce users to input their account passwords and download fraudulent imitation apps through forged links, ultimately committing property fraud or account theft.WeChat officials stated that once verified, they will take tiered penalties against violating accounts based on the severity of the circumstances, in accordance with relevant laws and platform regulations. This includes banning community functions, restricting feature usage, and permanently banning accounts. They also remind users to be wary of Ponzi schemes that claim to be associated with blockchain but lack substantive technology and applications, and to avoid participating in paying entry fees, developing downlines, and downloading applications from unofficial channels.

WeChat has started to further relax the circulation of chat records. Practical tests show that after upgrading the mobile WeChat to version 8.0.78, users can select multiple chat records and choose "Forward to other applications." In addition to Yuanbao and WorkBuddy, users can directly send them to third-party apps like ChatGPT by selecting "Choose applications on the phone," with a maximum of 100 records selected at once.WeChat will package the chats into a ZIP file, containing a TXT file of the chat records organized by time and related attachments. The desktop version of WeChat has also opened a similar entry, and community developers have created intermediary tools based on this, allowing chat records to be sent to AI like ChatGPT and Claude.

Nomura's "China Internet and New Media" monthly research report shows that in July, Douyin's average monthly usage time per user surpassed WeChat for the first time, becoming the top app in terms of usage time in the country.

According to IT Home, WeChat Pay announced that the AI Exclusive Card now supports usage in DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw. After user authorization, the process from smart recommendations to order payment can be completed in conversations.The AI Exclusive Card can currently be used to pay for over 700 Pay Skills on Skillhub in the aforementioned two products, with plans to expand to more scenarios in the future. The activation process includes: installing the weixinpay plugin for DeepSeek Harness or OpenClaw via the npx command, generating a binding link by the Agent when using paid skills on Skillhub, and completing the binding of the WeChat Pay AI Exclusive Card. After that, each order requires user confirmation on the mobile end, deducting funds from the exclusive card balance. The official emphasizes that the exclusive card funds are isolated from the main account, the limit is self-controllable, and each payment requires user confirmation.

On August 24, Binance co-founder He Yi posted that CZ does not use WeChat, and the currently very active WeChat group "Binance Mall" and CZ are both fake Binance and fake CZ conducting promotional activities. Please remind each other to be cautious of scams.

WeChat Pay has announced the launch of the "AI Exclusive Card" feature. This feature allows users to directly express their spending needs during conversations with the AI Agent, and the Agent assists in completing the entire process from smart recommendations to final order payment.It is reported that the WeChat Pay AI Exclusive Card has initially been integrated into the WorkBuddy platform (Mac version must be upgraded to 5.1.1). Users can purchase group coupons and redeem them in-store through the "Meituan Life Assistant" Agent on this platform. The official statement indicates that in the future, this exclusive card will be planned to open access to more Agent platforms.In terms of fund security and authorization mechanisms, the AI Exclusive Card is completely isolated from the user's main WeChat Pay account, and all spending by the Agent is limited to the balance within the exclusive card. Users can independently control the inflow and outflow limits of funds in the card, and the system requires that every transaction order must be confirmed by the user’s final authorization before payment can be completed.

WeChat Pay officially announced the launch of the AI Access Toolbox version 2.0, aimed at providing merchants and global developers with a more efficient and smooth integration experience.It is reported that this update mainly includes five core upgrades: First, it supports precise adaptation of WeChat Pay's native concepts in 9 languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean, lowering the threshold for overseas integration; Second, it achieves comprehensive product knowledge coverage and incorporates two AI experts in technology and finance-level R&D, providing full-link Q&A and code security review; Third, it adds CLI dynamic troubleshooting capabilities, allowing developers to query order and refund status in real-time through natural language without leaving the coding environment; Fourth, it fully converts document charts into Mermaid format, enhancing the understanding of large models while reducing token consumption by 50%; Fifth, it supports automatic comparison and synchronization of local Skill knowledge bases with the latest official versions.

B.AI announced full access to China's mainstream payment systems, with WeChat Pay, Alipay, and UnionPay now open to users. Starting today, users can complete the entire process of account recharge, subscribing to AI services, and accessing top AI models and Agent services in a familiar payment environment. This payment upgrade lowers the usage threshold, allowing individual developers and enterprise clients to more conveniently experience cutting-edge AI capabilities, making the entire usage process smoother, more natural, and localized. B.AI will continue to optimize the product experience in the future, committed to integrating smarter and more efficient artificial intelligence services into everyone's daily work and life.

WeChat Pay officially launched the AI native access toolbox, providing low-threshold payment integration solutions for merchants and developers, supporting the rapid generation of payment function code through natural language commands.The toolbox consists of Skill packages, AI-friendly documentation, and APIs, supporting one-click calls in mainstream AI development environments. Among them, the "verbal code generation" feature can compress a development process that originally took days into minutes, enabling quick access to more than 20 functions such as mini-program payments, H5 payments, refunds, and revenue sharing.At the same time, the toolbox has built-in AI diagnostic capabilities that can automatically identify code logic issues and provide repair suggestions, reducing financial and system risks during the integration process. For developers with existing systems, it also supports interface debugging and old code upgrades. This upgrade further promotes the standardization and AI integration of payment capabilities, lowering the digital operation threshold for small and medium-sized merchants.

Tencent's PR Director Zhang Jun stated today that on March 30, the WeChat Work CLI open-source project was launched on the GitHub community, opening up seven core product capabilities including messaging, scheduling, documents, smart forms, meetings, to-do lists, and contacts, supporting mainstream AIAgents (such as ClaudeCode, Codex, WorkBuddy, QClaw, etc.) for invocation.Developers can leverage these capabilities to enable AIAgents to understand and utilize WeChat Work's features in a more natural way, quickly developing AI applications that are more aligned with everyday office scenarios.

According to Tencent's public account, WeChat has officially launched the WeChat "ClawBot" plugin, supporting the integration of OpenClaw. Users can scan a QR code or copy a command to connect OpenClaw to WeChat. Once connected, users can quickly interact with their "lobster" efficiently through WeChat chat. In addition, Tencent's "Shrimp Workshop" cloud shrimp Lighthouse, self-developed shrimp workbuddy, and local shrimp QClaw are all in place.

According to The Information, Tencent is building a new AI intelligence entity for the WeChat application.

The National Supercomputing Internet announced that its OpenClaw service has integrated with Feishu and WeChat Work. Users can flexibly choose from various model API calling services based on task scale and access them through the Feishu and WeChat Work clients.Currently, the Supercomputing Internet's OpenClaw has pre-configured various large models (such as MinMax-M2.1, MinMax-M2.5, Qwen-235B, etc.) to provide high-performance, low-cost inference computing power.

According to a report by The Paper, it has recently been reported that Tencent has officially sent a complaint letter to GitHub (the world's largest code hosting and collaboration platform), requesting the removal of a batch of open-source projects that "allow users to export or analyze their WeChat chat records." Among them, some project leaders who are more concerned have publicly stated that, under legal pressure, the projects have been forced to cease maintenance.In response, Tencent stated that some open-source projects that read WeChat chat records have cracked the local database keys through reverse engineering of the WeChat client, bypassing the encryption measures of the WeChat client, which threatens the data privacy and client security of users and third parties, and can easily be exploited by black and gray industries.