China’s tech firms block AI access during high-stakes college entrance exams

In China, one exam can decide your future, and this year, students weren’t allowed any help from AI.

As millions of high school seniors began sitting for China’s notoriously grueling “gaokao” college entrance exam from Saturday, the country’s biggest tech firms quietly pulled the plug on their AI tools.

Apps from Tencent, ByteDance, and Moonshot AI disabled features like photo recognition and real-time question answering, a move aimed at preventing students from…