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Musk reveals "date" venue with Zuckerberg: "epic location" in "ancient Roman style"

Musk recently shared the "latest details" of his cage fight with Zuckerberg on the social media platform X, including the venue of this "appointment". Musk revealed that the match will take place in an "epic location" in Italy and will be streamed live on the X and Meta platforms. (Tencent Technology)

310.9 billion yuan! Huawei announced its "report card" in the first half of this year, and the terminal business stopped falling and stabilized

Huawei recently announced its operating results for the first half of this year, with sales revenue of 310.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%, and a net profit margin of 15.0%. Among them, the revenue of terminal business was 103.5 billion yuan, stopping the downward trend and achieving a slight increase of 2.17% year-on-year. (Daily Economic News)

Tech companies

WeChat Channels has added a "use now, pay later" payment method

A few days ago, WeChat Channels store launched the "use now, pay later" function, users can place orders for 0 yuan when shopping on Channels and enjoy the shopping mode of experiencing goods first, and paying after the order is confirmed and received. According to reports, "use first, pay later" is based on WeChat Pay, providing consumers with a service of using first and paying later. In order to improve the risk protection of the transaction process, the platform will provide reliable capital protection and evaluation throughout the process. (Sanyan Technology)

Scalpers resell tickets for Lei Jun's speech? Xiaomi's head of public relations: The speech is an invitation only, and the real-name identity must be verified

A few days ago, some netizens found that the second-hand platform has a lot of information about the sale of Lei Jun's annual speech tickets, to which Xiaomi public relations head Wang Hua responded that Lei Jun's annual speech is an invitation system, the seats in the venue are numbered, and the real-name identity must be reviewed, do not believe in ticket sales channels such as scalpers, and there is no ticket sales channel for this conference. (Sanyan Technology)

Report: ByteDance will have revenue of $85 billion in 2022 and 840 million overseas daily activities

According to media reports, citing people close to ByteDance's financial performance, ByteDance's total revenue reached $85 billion last year, a year-on-year increase of 38%; Revenue in China was $69 billion, up 25% year-over-year, down from 68%, 105% and 150% in 2021, 2020 and 2019. (Wall Street News)

Chinese Internet giant throws $5 billion to grab GPUs? Nvidia responded

The Financial Times recently reported that Chinese Internet giants are scrambling to purchase NVIDIA's high-performance AI chips, which are essential for building generative artificial intelligence systems, with orders worth $5 billion this year and next. Nvidia responded: "Consumer Internet companies and cloud service providers invest billions of dollars in data center components every year, often placing orders months in advance. (CBN)

TSMC's July revenue climbed to a high in nearly half a year, mainly due to iPhone 15 orders

According to media reports, TSMC's consolidated revenue in July climbed to a nearly half-year high. According to industry analysis, TSMC's revenue in July rebounded from June, which should be related to Apple's iPhone 15 series of new machine pulling goods and relatively strong orders related to high-speed computing (HPC). (Mobile China)

Microsoft may stop its Russian business altogether: it will no longer accept payments from Russian bank accounts

According to Russian media reports, TelecomDaily, a Russian Internet industry research institution, recently disclosed Microsoft's letter to its Russian enterprise customers, which indicated that Microsoft may no longer allow Russian companies to renew any of its products or services due to obstacles in the payment system. Microsoft's technical support department pointed out in the letter that Microsoft, as a U.S. business, "can no longer accept" Russian bank account transfers as a payment method, so Russian customers will not be able to renew the service. (The Paper)

AI weather vane

Xiaomi large model exposed for the first time, relevant person in charge: has achieved phased results

According to media reports, Xiaomi's large model MiLM-6B appeared in the C-Eval and CMMLU large model evaluation lists, and as of the current C-Eval overall list, ranking 10th in the overall list and 1st in the same parameter magnitude; CMMLU ranked No. 1 Chinese large model, and this is the first exposure of Xiaomi large model. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Xiaomi said that Xiaomi has been actively deploying large models and has achieved some phased results, and will synchronize relevant progress in the near future. (The Paper)

Chinese AI "mind reading" is here! The researchers intend to construct large-scale EEG datasets based on Chinese

Following the development of artificial intelligence "mind reading" by a team at Austin in Texas in May this year, Chinese researchers have also begun to build large-scale high-throughput EEG datasets stimulated by Chinese corpus, which means that AI "mind reading" for Chinese is also expected to come out. It is understood that the participants of the project are a number of young scholars at the intersection of brain science and AI at home and abroad, including researchers from Shanghai Mental Health Center, Nanjing Normal University, National University of Singapore, Peking University and iFLYTEK. (CBN)

OpenAI extends the "custom" feature to free users and does not support the EU and UK regions

OpenAI tweeted that it will extend its powerful "customization" function to free users, and does not support the EU and UK regions. Previously, on July 21, OpenAI launched a "custom" test function for ChatGPT Plus paid users for the first time, which can better control how ChatGPT responds, preferences, etc., and remember these settings in all subsequent conversations. in Babbitt

Tech figures

The "strongest opponent" is returning? Glory Zhao Ming: Take the best condition to meet the challenge

In the face of Huawei's imminent market impact, the industry is also paying attention to the attitude and response of domestic brands, especially how should the former "brothers" respond? Recently, Honor CEO Zhao Ming responded to the above questions at a media conference. He said that the return of experts will make the industry more competitive, but Huawei and Apple are not insurmountable Mount Everest. (CBN)

Shout advertisers! CEO of Company X: I have "autonomy" under Musk

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said a few days ago that she has "autonomy" under Musk and advertisers should feel comfortable returning to the platform under her. She also noted that the division of labor between her and Musk is clear: Musk is primarily responsible for ongoing control of products and development, and her role is to participate in "everything else" that "runs the company." (All-weather technology)