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Sources say SoftBank is trying to buy a 25% stake in Arm held by Vision Fund 1
It is reported that SoftBank is preparing to send its chip design company Arm to Nasdaq for IPO next month, with a valuation expected to be between $60 billion and $70 billion (currently about 434.4 billion to 506.8 billion yuan). According to Reuters, people familiar with the matter said that SoftBank Group is in talks with Vision Fund 1 (VF1) to acquire its 25% stake in Arm. (IT House)
Red flags for U.S. tech stocks: Some AI leaders, including Nvidia, have adjusted by 10%
According to Insider, the 10 hottest AI stocks fell from 2.3% to 29% earlier this year, according to Insider. The analysis said that the recent decline in AI hot stocks may be short-term fluctuations, or it may be a reaction to rising long-term interest rates. Or maybe it's a sign that investors are tired of the AI hype and worry that the technology could take years to generate real profits. (Wall Street News)
According to the report, ChatGPT costs $700,000 a day and OpenAI could go bankrupt in 2024
Recently, a report said that OpenAI will cost about $700,000 a day just to run its artificial intelligence service, ChatGPT. OpenAI is currently burning money, and if OpenAI doesn't get more money soon, the company may have to file for bankruptcy by the end of 2024. (IT House)
More than 600 Internet companies have issued a proposal to actively maintain the order of flood prevention and disaster relief networks
Recently, extreme rainfall has occurred in Northeast China, North China, Huanghuai and other places, and in the current special period of concerted efforts and joint efforts in disaster relief, a small number of netizens fabricate and spread false information related to the disaster, provoke regional confrontation and discrimination, seriously disrupt the order of online public opinion, and interfere with and hinder the anti-disaster relief work. Up to now, more than 600 enterprises, including Baidu, Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Alibaba, Tencent, and other 8 super-large Internet platforms, have issued proposals, singing the main theme of unite and concerted efforts for disaster relief. (Beijing Youth Daily)
Tech companies
Amazon tracks employee swipe records and requires visits to the office three days a week
Amazon recently sent emails to some U.S. employees warning them that the company is keeping a close eye on their office attendance and asking them to comply with its return-to-work policy. The move shows Amazon's commitment to enforcing the rules, despite opposition from employees who require employees to come to the office at least three days a week. (IT House)
Roblox: Earnings thunderstorm, breaking through high valuations
Roblox's second-quarter earnings were mainly poor in profit (adjusted EBITDA), which was expected to be $48.5 million, but the company only achieved $37.9 million. Margin deteriorated to 4.9% sequentially, and while the company gave guidance that Q4 could return to double-digit levels, Q4 was already a strong season for Roblox and was still below market expectations. (Dolphin Investment Research)
Early activation is fined 200,000 per Apple iPhone 15 mobile phone unblocked on September 16
If nothing else, Apple will hold a press conference between September 12 and 14. From the current situation, Apple's iPhone 15 conference has been recorded video, channel stocking is also in progress, so Apple's most critical thing is to prevent leaks, a few days ago some netizens exposed the store's regulations, suspected unblocking time is September 16 at 8 a.m. At the same time, Apple strictly stipulates that early activation is prohibited, and if you violate the regulations, you will be fined a huge amount, 200,000 yuan per mobile phone. (Fast Technology)
"Mo Yan writer's account was blocked"? Station B responded, rumor-rumoring bloggers have been banned
On August 13, Station B issued an announcement saying that "Mo Yan's writer's account was blocked" was a rumor. After verification, some users previously registered the "Teacher Mo Yan" account under their false names, and carried the content posted by Mo Yan himself on other social platforms. Station B has permanently sealed the high-imitation account and removed all infringing manuscripts. (CBN)
AI weather vane
UC Berkeley Professor: The 2030 GPT could execute 1.8 million years of human work
What will GPT look like in 2030? A machine learning professor at UC Berkeley published a long article on predictions. GPT 2030 is expected to process 5 times more words per minute than humans, and 5 times more per FLOP, for a total of 125 times. At the same time, arbitrary replication can be performed and parallel operations can be performed. If the computing power is enough, it is enough to do the work that humans need to perform for 1.8 million years. (Shin Ji Won)
I used AI to make a trailer for The Wandering Earth 3
According to the authors, the workflow is actually quite simple. MidJourney, Gen2 generates a 4-second video. The author spent 5 nights, generated 693 images with MidJourney, 185 shots with Gen2, and finally selected 60 shots and edited them into the trailer for The Wandering Earth 3. (Digital Life Kazik)
Penn's latest research: AI is 7 times more efficient at generating ideas than humans, and GPT creative ability beats 99% of humans!
Recently, Jakob Nielsen, an expert in human-computer interaction, wrote a column that proves to us with 3 recent scientific studies and a short article by ChatGPT that there is nothing for humans to do with jobs that require creativity! In the production product creative task, if you only look at the top 10% of the best ideas in the entire creative pool, whether human or AI-generated, 87.5% of the best ideas come from ChatGPT, and only 12.5% come from college students. In this data analysis, AI is 7 times more creative than humans. (Shin Ji Won)