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Baidu iQiyi and other 5 companies entered the "confirmed delisting" list
Due to the closing date of the defense, the SEC transferred five Chinese-listed companies, Futu Holdings, Nocera, iQiyi, Baidu and Kaixin Yuanda Pharmaceutical, from the pre-delisting list to the definitive delisting list.
These companies are the third batch of Chinese stocks to be included in the list.
On April 21, local time, the SEC included companies such as Ideal Automobile, Best Group and Shell in the pre-delisting list, which is the fifth batch of Chinese-listed companies to be included in the list since March.
Musk unveiled a $46.5 billion financing package to consider launching a Twitter takeover offer
Now, Musk has not only hammered out a financing package to buy Twitter for him, but has also secured a $46.5 billion financing commitment.
In a filing with the regulator on April 21 (U.S. time), Musk said he had secured about $25.5 billion in debt financing commitments from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays and a number of other financial institutions.
Of those, about $12.5 billion in margin loans would require Musk to mortgage about $62.5 billion in Tesla shares, which account for about a third of his Tesla stake.
At the same time, Musk also pledged to contribute another $21 billion through equity financing.
Musk also said in the filing that he is preparing to make a takeover offer directly to Twitter's shareholders, bypassing Twitter's board that resisted takeover pressure.
Twitter responds that it will carefully review the latest proposals in order to make the decision that best serves the interests of shareholders.
ICLR 2022 Distinguished Paper Awards announced
Currently, ICLR 2022 has announced the results of the selection of outstanding papers.
A total of 7 papers from universities & research institutions including DeepMind, Stanford, Google and Toronto were selected.
In the end, a paper from Tsinghua & Renmin University stood out and won the Outstanding Paper Award, including Professor Zhu Jun and Academician Zhang Cymbals, who were the authors of this paper.
The theme of this paper is diffusion probability model (DPM), which is considered to be of great significance for both theoretical research and practical application of DPM, and will have further impact on DPM-related research.
Tencent's two "mysterious" executives earn nearly 2.6 billion yuan a year
According to Yuntou, Tencent issued more than $200 million (about 1.274 billion yuan) each to two executives who have not yet revealed their specific identities.
Tencent's annual report shows that the two highest-paid people in the company are not among the directors or most senior executives.
What is the concept of an annual salary of more than $200 million?
That put the two among the 20 highest-paid executives in the United States.
According to Games One, the two Tencent executives can rank second and third respectively in the world's highest-paid game company executive list. It is second only to Playtika's CEO of $372 million and surpasses Activision Blizzard's $155 million.
TSMC starts construction of a 2nm fab: Mass production is expected in 2025
According to The Register, TSMC's 2nm fab in Hsinchu Science Park: Fab 20 has officially started.
TSMC is the foundry faucet for wafers.
According to people familiar with the matter, the construction of TSMC's Fab 20 plant is divided into four phases, with a total of 4 12 fabs being built, and it is expected to enter risky trial production in the second half of 2024 and mass production in 2025.
TSMC's 2nm process will use the orbiting gate (GAA) transistor architecture of the nanolayer sheet, and the technology development progress is in line with expectations.
The equipment industry assessed that if TSMC's 2nm demand intensity is better than expected, Hsinchu Science Park may not have enough land, and it may be transferred to Taichung to establish a fab with processes such as 2nm and more advanced 1.8nm, and the land for the second phase of Zhongke has been taken into account.
Zhihu landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the form of "double listing"
According to the Beijing Business Daily, Zhihu completed a double listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today, with an opening price of HK$24.3, down 24.2% from the issue price of HK$32.06.
Knowing that the listing in Hong Kong this time, no additional new shares, the shares are all from early investors, which means that there is no purpose of raising funds when it returns to Hong Kong.
With the listing in Hong Kong, Zhihu also became the first Chinese-listed Internet company to return to Hong Kong by way of dual major listing.
It is worth noting that there is a big difference between dual primary listing and secondary listing, and companies that adopt dual primary listing will have the same listing status in both listings at the same time, such as delisting in one of them, which will not affect the listing status in the other.
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) designation of a number of Chinese companies as "relevant issuers" at risk of delisting, a number of Chinese-listed companies are already considering dual major listing plans.
"Huayi Quantum" completed an angel round of financing of more than 100 million yuan
At present, Huayi Boao (Beijing) Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. has completed an angel round of financing of more than 100 million yuan, led by Gaorong Capital, and followed by Aurite Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Sequoia Capital China, Qiji Chuangtan and Turing Venture Capital.
The founding team of Huayi Quantum is from the Quantum Information Center of Tsinghua University, and the founder and chief scientist is Professor Duan Luming, executive director of the Quantum Information Center of Tsinghua University.
Previously, the research team of Tsinghua University led by Duan Luming has repeatedly refreshed the international record in the field of quantum information, realizing the stable imprisonment of 202 ion qubits for the first time, and preparing the technical foundation for the realization of a large-scale ion trap quantum computer.
It is understood that the financing amount will be mainly used for the research and development and manufacture of 100 to 200 qubits of ion trap quantum computers, and the development of corresponding quantum computing cloud platforms.
a16z set up a cryptographic research laboratory to benchmark DeepMind
According to The Block, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the creation of a new multidisciplinary lab focused on crypto research.
The team will work with others to solve research problems facing the fast-growing Web3 field and advance the next generation of internet and technology.
At the same time, they will also develop new tools to help a16z portfolio companies grow their businesses.
The team will be led by Tim Roughgarden, a well-known american academic expert in game theory. He has worked as a professor at Stanford University and Columbia University, joining A16z in 2021 as a research advisor.
In addition, the team members include Dan Boneh, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Scott Kominers, Harvard economist.
Roughgarden said the lab will be based on research labs affiliated with Companies such as Bell Labs and DeepMind.
Google Amazon was exposed to the phenomenon of "salary inversion"
According to Insider news, some technology companies, including Google and Amazon, have also seen the phenomenon of "salary inversion", and new employees are paid higher than old employees.
Due to the "big wave of resignations" and the current state of the job market in the United States, which began in 2021, job seekers have more chips in salary negotiations, and some job seekers have even doubled their salaries by job hopping.
According to Levels.fyi, an employee who worked at Google for three years earns $150,000 a year, but at the same time, an employee who joined Google a year ago, in the same rank and office, earns $192,000 a year.
Not only Google, but also some technology companies, including Amazon, have also seen this phenomenon.
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