China issued interim measures on Thursday to manage its booming generative artificial intelligence (AI) industry, saying they would apply only to services offered to the public as regulators seek to support development of the technology. The rules, set to take effect on Aug. 15, come after Beijing signalled the end of its years-long crackdown on the tech industry, whose help it seeks to spur an economy recovering more slowly than expected after the scrapping of COVID-19 curbs. Thursday’s rules clarified the scope of what regulators will target, following draft rules published in April that required firms to submit security assessments...