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Cailianshe AI ​​Daily August 14th The main contents of this issue of AI daily morning news are: Not satisfied with the milestone victory in antitrust, the U.S. Department of Justice is considering pushing for the breakup of Google; Trump and Musk’s live interviews feature domestic power banks making a “high-profile appearance”; Alibaba Tongyi’s open-source audio language model Qwen2-Audio.

Google launches AI-powered Pixel 9 series to challenge Apple

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out upgraded smartphones, watches and headphones aimed at competing with Apple and Samsung Electronics and offering more ways to use artificial intelligence. Google is touting the products — released weeks ahead of Apple’s latest gadgets — as the best way to experience its latest AI technology. The hardware is also changing in appearance, with Google ditching the curved design that has been used on its Pixel phones for years. The new devices include the Pixel 9, 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL phones, as well as a premium folding model called the 9 Pro Fold.

Google also announced the Pixel Watch 3 in two sizes and the Pixel Buds Pro 2. The phones will feature an upgraded version of the Google Assistant with the company's Gemini generative AI, which will allow it to respond with more complex responses, such as offering cooking recipes after seeing a photo of an ingredient.

Not satisfied with the milestone antitrust victory, the US Department of Justice considers pushing for the breakup of Google

After winning a landmark court ruling that Google has a monopoly in online search, the Justice Department is considering a rare push to break up the Alphabet Inc. unit, according to people familiar with the matter. If it does so, it would be the first time the U.S. government has sought to break up a company on the grounds of illegal monopoly since its failed attempt to break up Microsoft two decades ago.

Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with rivals and taking steps to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in artificial intelligence products, the people said. In any case, Washington is likely to seek to ban the exclusivity contracts at the heart of the Google case. If the Justice Department moves forward with the breakup plan, the most likely units to be divested are the Android operating system and Google's web browser, Chrome, the people said. Officials are also considering forcing the company to sell AdWords, a platform for selling text ads, one of the people said.

Intel sells stake in Arm to raise funds

Intel sold its stake in chip design company Arm in the second quarter. Intel is currently laying off employees and cutting expenses to turn around its business. The company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it no longer holds the 1.18 million shares of Arm it held three months ago. Based on the average price of Arm shares in the same period ($124.34), the sale will raise about $147 million for Intel.

Trump and Musk live interview: domestic power banks "highly featured"

On August 13, Beijing time, Trump had a live conversation with Musk on X. Some netizens discovered that the power bank Trump used during the interview was a Chinese brand, Anker MagGo, manufactured by Anker Innovations. Influenced by Trump's live broadcast of "selling goods", Anker Innovations rose sharply near the close of the midday trading session that day.

Ali Tongyi open source audio language model Qwen2-Audio

Ali Tongyi model continues to be open source, and the Qwen2 series open source family has added an audio language model Qwen2-Audio. It is reported that Qwen2-Audio can directly conduct voice questions and answers without text input, and understand and analyze the audio signals input by users, including human voice, natural sound, music, etc.

Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada achieved profitability in July

Alibaba's Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada recorded a positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) in July this year and achieved profitability. On the morning of August 13, Lazada revealed the above news at an internal meeting. Previously, Lazada Thailand had achieved profitability in 2022, making Thailand the first country in which Lazada made a profit. That year, Lazada Thailand's total revenue was approximately 38 billion baht and its profit was 3.2 billion baht.

OpenAI officially announces GPT-4o update

On August 13, ChatGPT posted on social media X that the GPT-4o model of the chatbot family has been updated again, and emphasized that this time it will be very different. This model is not OpenAI's latest API-side GPT-4o 0806 model. Currently, free users can also use this model, but there is a limit on the number of uses.

AMD spends 4.77 billion yuan to complete the acquisition of Silo AI, Europe's first private AI laboratory

AMD announced that it has completed the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI laboratory in Europe. The transaction value is approximately US$665 million, equivalent to RMB 4.77 billion at the latest exchange rate, and AMD paid all in cash. This is the largest private AI innovation company acquisition in Europe since Google acquired the UK's DeepMind for approximately £400 million in 2014.

NASA said mission managers will continue to assess the readiness of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft until a decision meeting no earlier than next week.

Musk's X, which expects to generate about $2 billion in advertising revenue this year, will continue its antitrust lawsuit against several major brands and an advertising industry group.

Nvidia rose more than 6% during the session, and its market value has increased by more than $400 billion in four days.