2024-07-24
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UK regulators to consider taking action against Chrome for abandoning third-party cookies
Musk announces the launch of the most powerful AI training cluster
Douyin e-commerce GMV returns to top priority
Pinduoduo Temu's GMV in the first half of the year was about 20 billion US dollars
Netflix expands its lead among multiple streaming platforms
Xiaomi Motors responds to delivery cycle issues
Musk expects Tesla FSD to be approved in China by the end of the year
Huawei once again recruits talented young people from around the world
Li Bin delivered an internal speech: Iterating NIO’s vision and mission, and launching value system 3.0
BYD store responds to the discontinuation of production of Seagull 24 models
Cybersecurity company Wiz has rejected Google's $23 billion acquisition offer
The world's first manned eVTOL operation standard system is about to be born
iPhone SE 4 will use OLED panel
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Google releases weather forecast AI model called NeuralGCM
Nubia Z60 series mobile phones are officially released
Meta new model Llama 3.1 officially released
UK regulators to consider taking action against Chrome for abandoning third-party cookies
Following Google's announcement that it would abandon its previous plan to disable third-party cookies by default in the Chrome browser, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a statement saying that it was disappointed that Google had changed its plans and no longer intended to eliminate third-party cookies from the Chrome browser.
The ICO said it has argued since Google's Sandbox project began in 2019 that blocking third-party cookies would be a positive step for consumers.
The ICO also said in a statement that blocking third-party cookies is a positive step for consumers. The digital advertising industry is encouraged to adopt more private alternatives to third-party cookies. In addition, they will consider taking regulatory action when they find systemic violations by all companies, including Google.
Musk announces the launch of the most powerful AI training cluster
Musk announced on the X platform that the Memphis supercomputer cluster began training at 4:20 a.m. local time.
Previously, Musk introduced that the computer cluster is equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, uses liquid cooling, and uses a single RDMA network interconnection architecture. It is the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.
Musk also mentioned in the comment section that he will use the Memphis supercomputer cluster to "train the world's most powerful artificial intelligence by December this year."
Douyin e-commerce GMV returns to top priority
According to Wandian.com, since price power became the top priority at the beginning of this year, the work focus of employees in different positions of Douyin e-commerce has quickly shifted toward "low prices", from merchant operations, product design to commercialization.
In order to accelerate the introduction of industrial belt merchants with large room for price reduction, Douyin upgraded its support policy and will return cash to some industrial belt merchants based on the completion of GMV targets. The incentive can be as high as 50% of GMV. Service providers who recruit industrial belt merchants can also receive cash subsidies.
However, people familiar with the matter said that Douyin was aware that low prices would have a certain impact on GMV, but the rapid decline in GMV growth in the first half of the year still exceeded expectations.
At present, Douyin Group executives are participating in e-commerce business management meetings more frequently than in the past, asking about business conditions. After judging that live e-commerce cannot achieve extremely low prices, the company decided to put GMV back as the top priority.
Pinduoduo Temu's GMV in the first half of the year was about 20 billion US dollars
According to 36Kr, Pinduoduo's cross-border e-commerce Temu had sales of about 20 billion US dollars in the first half of this year. Last year, Temu's annual sales were 18 billion US dollars. It took SHEIN nine years and TikTok three years to reach a turnover of 20 billion US dollars.
Temu's pace in site development has slowed down, but in the new countries it has entered, Temu has continued its rapid growth. For example, in Brazil, just over a month after its launch, it became the most downloaded application locally. In the past 30 days, Brazil has been the second most downloaded market for Temu applications, with more than 5 million downloads, second only to the United States.
36Kr reported that in early July, after less than four months of investment, Temu’s “semi-custodial” sales in the United States accounted for 20%.
Netflix expands its lead among multiple streaming platforms
A recent report from Bloomberg noted that Netflix added 8 million customers last quarter, widening its lead among multiple streaming platforms.
Netflix's revenue in the first half of 2024 exceeded $4 billion, with quarterly profits up 44% from 2023 and more than seven times from 2019. Currently, the company has 277.7 million users, covering more than 600 million people worldwide.
"The challenge facing many of our competitors is that while they invest heavily in premium content, viewing of their streaming services is relatively small," Netflix told shareholders on Thursday.
Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. are all cutting back on streaming to cut streaming losses. Even Apple, with seemingly unlimited resources, is becoming more cost-conscious.
Bloomberg said that after spending more than $20 billion to produce original TV shows and movies that few people watched, Apple began to refine its strategy in Hollywood. Moreover, the financial resources Apple spent on original programs were not proportional to the ratings.
Apple spends billions of dollars a year on original programming, which has received critical acclaim and numerous award nominations. But its streaming service attracts just 0.2% of TV viewership in the U.S. Apple TV+ generates fewer views in a month than Netflix does in a day.
Xiaomi Motors responds to delivery cycle issues
Recently, Xiaomi Auto responded to questions about the delivery cycle. One user said that he ordered a car with a friend, and the other party expected a longer delivery cycle, but why did he receive the car earlier?
Xiaomi Auto said that it currently arranges production according to the order locking time sequence of customers with the same configuration, but the rhythm of car delivery will also be different due to factors such as the differences in order distribution of vehicles with different configurations in different cities and the differences in logistics time from factories to various cities.
As for the online saying that car delivery is faster in the south than in the north, Xiaomi stated that they supply vehicles according to the order of users locking their orders across the country. Xiaomi will strictly follow this principle in vehicle production and delivery arrangements, and the official will not jump the queue or discriminate against cities/regions.
Musk expects Tesla FSD to be approved in China before the end of the year
On July 24, Tesla released its second quarter financial report for 2024. The financial report showed that Tesla's revenue in the second fiscal quarter was US$25.50 billion, compared with US$24.93 billion in the same period last year.
In addition, during the earnings call held today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that he will apply for regulatory approval in Europe and China to implement supervised FSD, and it is expected to be approved before the end of this year.
In June this year, Shanghai Lingang New Area began to promote the pilot implementation of Tesla FSD (full automatic driving system), involving 10 Tesla vehicles to conduct road tests in Shanghai.
Huawei once again recruits talented young people from around the world
On July 23, Huawei Recruitment published an article announcing that it is once again recruiting talented young people from around the world.
For this recruitment, Huawei stated that there is no restriction on school, major, or academic qualifications, but candidates must have made outstanding achievements in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, artificial intelligence, etc., such as heavyweight scientific research results/papers/patents or awards in top international competitions.
Huawei said it will also provide "genius young people" with world-class challenging topics, top mentors, and global platforms and resources.
"Genius Youth" is a recruitment program launched by Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in 2019 to attract top talent.
Li Bin delivered an internal speech: Iterating NIO’s vision and mission, and launching value system 3.0
Sina Technology reported on July 23 that on July 19, Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, held a face-to-face meeting for all employees at NIO and released the Value System 3.0. In this meeting, he elaborated in detail the underlying logic behind NIO's iterative vision and mission.
He said that NIO's Value System 3.0 has iterated the company's mission and vision, clarifying that NIO's corporate mission is "Blue Sky Coming to create a sustainable and better future" and its corporate vision is "to become a user-oriented company with leading technology and experience."
Li Bin said that this upgrade of the value system has built a basic framework for the existing market competition, multi-brand operations, and global layout that have already arrived and are about to come. "We believe that such a system can make us a better company and a more successful company."
BYD store responds to the discontinuation of production of Seagull 24 models
According to Sina Technology, a source revealed that BYD's 24-model Seagull will be discontinued after the last batch of cars are produced. Subsequent models will be modified and upgraded, with new electric chairs and 360 audio systems. After the modification, the new models will increase in price.
At the same time, a BYD 4S store staff responded, "It is true that we will not produce 24 models because we have 25 new cars to launch."
The person also pointed out: "After the 24 inventory cars are sold out, the 24 personalized and customized models that consumers want will no longer be produced."
Cybersecurity company Wiz has rejected Google's $23 billion acquisition offer
Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz has closed a $23 billion acquisition by Google parent Alphabet, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said the company decided to continue to focus on advancing its planned IPO with the goal of achieving $1 billion in annual recurring revenue.
Previously, Reuters reported that Alphabet was in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for about $23 billion, citing a person familiar with the matter as saying that the valuation was almost double the valuation Wiz announced in May, when the company raised $1 billion in a private financing round at a $12 billion valuation.
The world's first manned eVTOL operation standard system is about to be born
According to Ehang Intelligent, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has recently officially accepted the applications for civil unmanned aircraft operating certificates (Air Operator Certificate, hereinafter referred to as "AOC" or "OC") submitted by its wholly-owned subsidiary Guangdong Ehang General Aviation Co., Ltd., which specializes in UAM operation services, and its joint venture operating company Hefei Heyi Aviation Co., Ltd. in Hefei.
EHang Intelligent said that as the world's first unmanned manned electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft "eVTOL" OC certification project accepted, this means that the world's first manned eVTOL operation standard system with epoch-making significance is about to be born, and will lay a solid foundation for the commercial operation of EHang Intelligent EH216-S.
iPhone SE 4 will use OLED panel
Recently, a Weibo blogger posted an article, announcing the specific configurations of the iPhone SE 4 and iPhone 17 series.
The blogger said that the iPhone SE 4 will be the first model in the SE series to be equipped with an OLED screen, and the body of the model will be larger than the previous generation. In terms of price, the iPhone SE 4 will start at $499.
The specific parameters of the iPhone 17 series models are as follows:
Recently, Google released a weather forecast AI model called NeuralGCM. This new model has been proven to be more accurate in forecasting weather for 1 to 10 days than other models based purely on machine learning.
The new model, which is open source, can run quickly on a laptop, compared with traditional weather forecast models that take hours to run on the world's most powerful supercomputers, said Stephen Hoyer, a co-author of the study at Google Research.
Nubia Z60 series mobile phones are officially released
On July 23, Nubia held an AI+ dual flagship new product launch conference, bringing two mobile phones, Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Edition and Nubia Z60S Pro.
Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Edition: Equipped with the sixth-generation under-screen camera technology and the third-generation Snapdragon 8 Leading Edition, the AI engine has a total computing power of up to 73 TOPS, equipped with a 6000mAh silicon-carbon negative electrode Nanhai battery and upgraded AI "zero" power consumption 2.0 technology.
Nubia Z60S Pro: Equipped with two-way satellite communication and Ultra main camera, it is also equipped with Snapdragon 8Gen 2 flagship processor and a 5100mAh large battery.
Zhang Lei, general manager of flagship products, said that "Be Yourself" is Nubia's unchanging brand concept. Nubia insists on strengthening technological innovation and personalized design to provide the new generation of young people with a way to fully display their personality and express themselves. At the same time, it defines the product strategy and concept of "Al+", using AI as the driving force to empower products, improve work and life efficiency, liberate users' energy and creativity, and allow more young people to enjoy the pleasure brought by technology."
Meta new model Llama 3.1 officially released
Meta released the Llama 3.1 model early this morning. The Llama 3.1 released this time has three sizes: 8B, 70B and 405B.
As Meta's most powerful model so far, it has the following features:
The official team of "Mortal Kombat: Onslaught" announced that the game was removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store on July 22, in-game purchases will be disabled on August 23, and the game will be shut down on October 21, 2024.
This game is a role-playing action mobile game that combines the style of fighting games. It was originally launched on October 17, 2023 and operated for nine months.
vivo summer education student discounts launched
vivo announced yesterday that the student-exclusive vivo IoT summer education discount has officially started.
When you purchase a vivo Pad3 series tablet, you will receive a vivo Pencil2s stylus for free, and there are also limited edition tablet packages available.
In addition, the vivo WATCH 3 series and WATCH GT eSIM version are available at a direct discount of 50 yuan, and when you purchase the vivo WATCH GT Bluetooth version, you can also get an exquisite watch strap for a limited time.
Kudi Coffee announced that it will open 8,000 convenience stores within this year
At the half-year work meeting that ended recently, Kudi Coffee officially announced the plan to open 8,000 convenience stores in the second half of the year, and proposed a goal of opening 50,000 convenience stores in the next three years.
Li Yingbo, Chief Strategy Officer of Kudi Coffee, said that Kudi Coffee is committed to integrating into customers' daily lives and becoming their first choice of coffee beverage. Product strength, convenience and price are the three key factors for customers to choose. The company has basically completed the construction of the supply chain and achieved initial cost advantages.
Li Yingbo also said that since the announcement of the launch of the product system upgrade and the simultaneous launch of the "Million Experts" evaluation plan on June 17, Kudi Coffee has received a lot of response and love from consumers, with more than one million people participating in each evaluation and the number is still increasing steadily.
"Wild Robot" announced to be introduced to the mainland
Yesterday, DreamWorks Animation announced that the movie "Wild Robots" will be introduced to the mainland. The story is adapted from Peter Brown's best-selling book of the same name, focusing on the adventures of the robot Rhodes.
The film is directed by Chris Sanders, the director of "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Croods", and features voice acting by Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, and Xu Weilun.
The official trailer for the second season of "Pinball Game" has been released
The second season of the Apple TV+ series "Pinball" has released an official trailer and will premiere on August 23 this year. The first season of the series was launched in 2022.
The film stars Lee Min Ho, Youn Yeo Jung, Ha Jin, Sawai Anna, Kim Min Ha, Soji Arai, Minami Kaho and others. It is adapted from Lee Myung Jin's novel and focuses on "the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean-American immigrant family, a story of war and peace, love and loss."
"Campus Detective" is scheduled to be released on August 3
According to Mtime.com, the movie "Campus Detective" released a release trailer and poster.
The film will be released nationwide on August 3. It is directed and written by Yu Fei, and stars young actors such as Lin Ziye, Hong Yuexi, Pei Jiaxin, Yu Shuyao, Guo Hexuan, and Zhuang Zexi.
"Campus Detective" tells the exciting story of a highly anticipated science competition in which the most popular entry mysteriously disappears. Xiang Li Siqi (played by Lin Ziye), a primary school student who wants to become a "campus detective", takes the initiative to solve the campus mystery with the help of his friends in the club.
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