{
  "id": 2891,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360544/chinas-stepfun-claims-it-has-unveiled-worlds-first-ai-smartphone",
  "title": "China’s StepFun claims it has unveiled the world’s first AI smartphone",
  "summary": "As Apple’s latest legal battle with OpenAI complicates the Silicon Valley race to reshape the consumer tech market, one Chinese start-up is taking a leap forward after unveiling what it claims to be the world’s first agentic smartphone. At a launch event in Shanghai on Monday, Tencent Holdings-backed StepFun introduced the StepX Neo. The device runs on Step AOS, an operating system designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents, and was launched under StepX – which the firm billed as..",
  "authors": "Minxiao Chang",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai,apple",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-14T12:30:11.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2891",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360544/chinas-stepfun-claims-it-has-unveiled-worlds-first-ai-smartphone",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}