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anthropic reportedly considering raising funds at a valuation of $40 billion

on september 24, the information reported that the us artificial intelligence startup anthropic has begun negotiating with investors about a new round of financing. according to an existing investor who talked with openai executives, the valuation after the new round of financing may reach 30 billion to 40 billion us dollars, nearly doubling the valuation after the completion of financing at the beginning of the year.

anthropic was founded by former openai core members dario amodei and daniela amodei in 2021. the founding team of anthropic was once the core r&d members of gpt-2 and gpt-3. they left openai due to disagreements on the development direction of openai. the goal of this new company is to "build reliable, explainable, and controllable ai systems centered on human interests."

currently, anthropic generates revenue by selling access to its chatbot claude and is seen as openai's biggest startup competitor.

tsmc denies discussing building a plant in the uae: no specific plans for new global investment

on september 23, tsmc responded to previous media reports in an email statement that it is focusing on existing global layout projects and currently has no specific plans for new global investments or new international expansion projects to disclose. earlier today, the wall street journal reported that tsmc and samsung have discussed plans to build a large chip factory in the uae in the next few years, and the potential chip project value may exceed us$100 billion.

jd.com responds to miniso becoming yonghui superstores' largest shareholder

on september 24, in response to miniso's investment of 6.3 billion yuan in yonghui supermarket to become its largest shareholder, jd.com told interface news that it is optimistic about the future collaborative development of yonghui supermarket and miniso.

yonghui supermarket issued an announcement on the evening of the 23rd that its shareholders dairy farm, jd world trade and suqian hanbang (all jd-affiliated companies) intend to transfer some of their shares in yonghui supermarket to juncai international, whose actual controller is miniso.

the share transfer involves shareholders dairy farm, jd world trade and suqian hanbang, which respectively transferred their shares in yonghui supermarket, accounting for 21.08%, 4.05% and 4.27% of the company's total share capital (the original three major shareholders held 21.08% of the shares, jd world trade held 6.98%. suqian hanbang held 4.27% of the shares, and suqian hanbang and jd world trade were joint actors).

the two brother founders of yonghui supermarket, zhang xuansong, hold 9.72% of the shares, and zhang xuanning holds 8.2% of the shares.

it is reported that miniso will transform to a quality retail model through equity investment and join hands with yonghui supermarket to create a "chinese version of sam's club".

kosen technology denies being "kicked out of apple's supply chain": some products have problems and have not been removed from apple's supply chain

on september 24, according to the daily economic news, due to product "quality issues", apple's macbook bearing supplier, kosen technology, has been suspended from production and supply by apple, and the orders have been transferred to other suppliers until the end of this year. in response to this news, a staff member of kosen technology's securities department responded to the media, saying: "part of the problems reflected (in the above news) are indeed true. there is a problem with the hinge of the macbook air product. we are in the process of handling it, and the conclusion will be clear after a while." at the same time, he also emphasized: "the company has not been removed from the apple supply chain, and our major orders (from apple) are being executed normally."

it is said that the batch of bearings produced by corson technology were used in the previous generation of macbook air models, not the latest models, and the macbook air models with defective bearings did not enter the market.

samsung invests $1.8 billion in new oled plant in vietnam

according to the voice of vietnam, on the afternoon of september 22, representatives of the bac ninh provincial government of vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding on screen and electronic component development projects with samsung display, which will invest us$1.8 billion (approximately rmb 12.7 billion) in vietnam to build a new oled module factory to produce products widely used in electronic consumer products such as smartphones, tablets, tvs and wearable devices. the new factory will be located in the yanfang industrial park in bac ninh province, close to the existing samsung electronics factory.

with this investment, samsung's total investment in bac ninh will increase from us$6.5 billion to us$8.3 billion, an increase of about 28%. samsung group has invested in bac ninh, vietnam since 2008 with an initial investment of us$670 million. after more than a decade of development, it has become the largest foreign direct investor in vietnam, with a cumulative investment of more than us$22.4 billion.

currently, samsung's mobile phone production in vietnam accounts for more than 50% of its global production, and the latter has become an important global supply chain market for it.