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Huawei mobile phones may release consumer-grade "satellite calls" in September
Citing a number of people familiar with the matter, Huawei may release a consumer-grade mobile phone that supports satellite voice call function as early as September this year, using Tiantong satellite. Based on the previous industry chain news, Huawei will release the Mate60 series in September, based on cost and other factors, Huawei is very likely to be equipped with satellite call function on the high-end models of the Mate60 series. (IT Times)
Apple plays differentiating again: the iPhone 15 USB-C interface confirms that the speed limit is only USB 2.0 level
One of the biggest changes in this year's iPhone 15 is to replace the USB-C interface with the entire system. It sounds like good news, but according to MR's latest report, the data cable of the iPhone 15 and Plus models is limited to USB 2.0 transmission speeds, with a speed of 480 MBps, the same as the Lightning interface. (Fast Technology)
Tech companies
First-line|Yu Minhong led the team to open Taobao live broadcast, why is there no Dong Yuhui in the poster?
A few days ago, Oriental Selection officially announced that Taobao's debut time is set for August 29, led by Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental, and Sun Dongxu, CEO of Oriental Selection. However, from the overall publicity poster, the figure of anchor Dong Yuhui is missing. It may be that the users of the Taobao live broadcast room are more pure and come to buy things. So Dong Yuhui came to the Taobao live broadcast room, carrying shrimp to talk about maternal love is likely to be scolded. (Tencent News Periscope)
Conan, COO of Little Red Book: In the past year and a half, the number of Xiaohongshu purchase users has increased 12 times
A few days ago, Xiaohongshu COO Conan said when participating in the "The Buyer Era Has Come" theme forum that in the past year and a half, the scale of Xiaohongshu buyers and managers has increased by 27 times, the number of mobile sales merchants has increased by 10 times, and the number of purchase users has increased by 12 times. (Tencent News Periscope)
Guoxin Technology's semi-annual report was "rushed" Lawyer: Listed companies constitute credit disclosure violations
Recently, a public account called "Wanquan Zhice" released an article "A picture to read the semi-annual report of Guoxin Technology" before the results of the half-year report of Guoxin Technology, which detailed the revenue, net profit, research and development, orders in hand and other data of listed companies in the first half of the year. Some lawyers in related fields said that the periodic reports of listed companies should be disclosed on the stock exchange and within the conditions stipulated by the CSRC, and there is no initial announcement, which constitutes an information disclosure violation. (Beijing Business Daily)
Apple uncharacteristically supported California's right-to-repair bill
Apple has been the subject of controversy in recent years for opposing right-to-repair bills, but this week the company decided to support California's right-to-repair law, SB 244, which requires businesses to provide consumers with tools to diagnose and repair consumer electronics and home appliances. (IT House)
SHEIN took a stake in Forever 21's parent company to test offline channels
Recently, SHEIN acquired a 1/3 stake in SPARC Group, an American clothing brand operator. SPARC Group owns several clothing brands, including fast-fashion women's Forever 21. This is SHEIN's first stake in an established brand, and upon completion of the transaction, SPARC Group will hold a minority stake in SHEIN. (LatePost later)
AI weather vane
Meta released the AI programming software Code Llama to compete with OpenAI
Recently, Meta has launched a tool called Code Llama, which is built on its Llama 2 large language model for generating new code and debugging work written by humans. Code Llama will use the same community license as Llama 2 for research and commercial use. (Tencent Technology)
The latest research and development of analog artificial intelligence chips: 14 times more energy efficient than traditional chips to improve speech recognition efficiency
In a recent computational science paper published in the internationally renowned academic journal Nature, researchers reported an analog artificial intelligence (AI) chip that is 14 times more energy efficient than traditional digital computer chips. Studies have shown that the chip developed by IBM Research Labs in the United States is more efficient than general-purpose processors in speech recognition, and this technology may be able to break the bottleneck encountered in the current AI development due to the demand for computing power performance and efficiency. (China News Network)
OpenAI seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in financing from the Middle East, founder: superintelligence can conquer cancer in a month
A person familiar with the venture capital circle revealed to Tencent News "Deep Net" that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to the Middle East in the second half of the year to seek financing, and the scale of this financing is huge, not less than 100 billion US dollars. How to impress the Middle East consortium? Sam Altman's story isn't just about AGI General AI, he described OpenAI's goal as likely to be to achieve more advanced intelligence than humans. (Tencent News Deep Network)
130 billion parameters, the first mathematical large model MathGPT in China is online! A number of benchmarks surpassed GPT-4
Recently, MathGPT, the first 100-billion-level large model in the field of mathematics in China, was officially launched and opened public testing, crushing GPT-4 in a number of benchmarks and refreshing SOTA. (Shin Ji Won)
Look at the earnings report
Meituan's revenue in the second quarter was 68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.4%, and the number of takeaway orders reached 5.4 billion
A few days ago, Meituan announced its second quarter performance report. In the second quarter, Meituan achieved revenue of 68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.4%. In the quarter, Meituan achieved an operating profit of 4.7 billion yuan, and the number of instant delivery orders on the platform reached 5.4 billion. (Tencent News Periscope)
NetEase's net income in the second quarter was 24 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%, and net profit was 9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 67%;
A few days ago, NetEase announced its second quarter performance report. In the second quarter, NetEase's revenue was 24 billion yuan, compared with market expectations of 24.775 billion yuan, compared with 23.2 billion yuan in the same period last year, and non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders from continuing operations was 9 billion yuan, compared with 5.4 billion yuan in the same period last year, an increase of 67% year-on-year. (Tencent Technology)
Tech figures
Wu Xinzhu, head of Xpeng Intelligent Driving, confirmed that he will leave to join NVIDIA: he will start working at NV soon
Xpeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng posted a photo with Wu Xinzhou and NVIDIA CEO Huang Jenxun, and said that the next opportunity is in AIGC and AUTO, and deeper cooperation with NVIDIA is about to begin. Subsequently, Wu Xinzhu forwarded this content and said that he was about to start working at NV. (Tencent Auto)
Tesla's 17-year veteran resigned: he built the three-electric system and participated in the research and development of all models
According to media reports, Colin Campbell, Tesla's vice president of powertrain and senior vice president of engineering, announced his departure at the LinkedIn, and Tesla and Musk have not responded positively. After leaving, Campbell will join Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla colleague JB Straubel, as chief technology officer. (Car stuff)
Smart new products
A drivable shape-shifting robot was introduced and could be owned for only 400 million yen
Recently, a Japanese company called Tsubame Industries unveiled a deformable, drivable robot called ARCHAX. The robot has two modes, robot mode and vehicle mode. Its name comes from Archaeopteryx, meaning it was the first such robot. (IT House)
Intel's new processor is exposed, and the process is making great strides
Recently, Intel held a visiting group in the Malaysian packaging and testing factory, and the visit also exposed the actual operation of the production line for the first time that the first processor using the Intel 4 process, which was officially released later in the second half of this year. This means that the chip has entered the final stage of preparation, and it also shows that Intel's plan to promote 5 process nodes in 4 years has taken a big step forward. (Semiconductor Industry)