Tesla, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have become the first foreign carmakers approved to deploy artificial intelligence chatbots in their vehicles in China, marking a potential acceleration of Beijing’s vetting process for AI services. The Cyberspace Administration of Beijing said in a notice that it registered the “Mercedes-Benz virtual assistant” as a generative AI service on Tuesday, the same day the Shanghai cyberspace administration approved Tesla Shanghai’s xBot service and Volvo’s local chatbot...