BEIJING — Chinese authorities on Thursday summoned 11 tech companies including Tencent, Alibaba, and TikTok parent ByteDance, for talks on internet security — as regulators step up scrutiny on the country’s high-flying firms.
Officials have in recent months signaled a tougher stance on the country’s fast-growing tech firms, with 12 companies hit with symbolic fines last week for allegedly flouting monopoly rules.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Thursday that the talks concern “voice software that has yet to undergo safety assessment procedures,” as well as the application of “deep fake” technology.
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