Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei will never monopolize talent; The old iPhone upgrades iOS 17 battery life blood collapse|Science and Technology Morning News
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Ren Zhengfei: Huawei invests 3-5 billion US dollars in basic theoretical research every year, and never monopolizes talents
A few days ago, Ren Zhengfei said at the ICPC Foundation symposium that Huawei has begun to attach importance to basic theoretical research, investing 3-5 billion US dollars every year. He stressed that Huawei does not monopolize talents, and insists on opening up and embracing talents from all over the world. Ren Zhengfei also mentioned that computing power is the foundation of the fourth industrial revolution, and Huawei is willing to provide a stage for young people to bloom the spark of life. (Tencent Technology)
Old fruit fans pay attention! The old iPhone upgraded iOS 17 battery life blood collapse: the actual measurement is too outrageous
A few days ago, Apple pushed the official version of iOS 17, several users reported that the battery life of the mobile phone became shorter after the upgrade, and the foreign media iAppleBytes tested through Geekbench's battery test function, and finally concluded that "the battery life of all these old models has been reduced." Among them, the battery life of the iPhone 13 and iPhone XR has decreased significantly, and the battery life of the iPhone XR has hit a new low since iOS 14. (Fast Technology)
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Radiation excess? Apple responds urgently: Dispute the censorship
Recently, "iPhone 12 radiation exceeded the standard" caused heated discussions among netizens, and many countries said that they were tracking the regulatory actions of the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) against Apple's iPhone 12. Apple staff said Apple disputed the AFNR's review results and will continue to engage with authorities to prove compliance, and has provided ANFR representatives with multiple Apple and independent third-party lab results to prove compliance. (China News Network)
Li Auto responded to Wang Xing's reduction of HK$300 million for 4 consecutive days: personal behavior does not involve Meituan's shareholding
Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan and non-executive director of Li Auto, reduced his holdings in Li Auto for four consecutive days last week, cashing out a total of about HK $311 million. After the reduction, Wang Xing's shareholding ratio dropped from 21.9% before the reduction to 21.79%. Li Auto responded that the stock transaction was Wang Xing's personal behavior and did not involve Meituan's shareholding. (The Paper)
Alibaba Pictures announced the acquisition of Damai for a total consideration of approximately HK$1.307 billion
Alibaba Pictures Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Alibaba Grand Entertainment Group, announced that it has signed a share purchase agreement with Alibaba Investment Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holdings Co., Ltd., under which Alibaba Pictures will conditionally acquire all the shares of Pony Media Holdings Inc., which operates the "Damai" brand. The total consideration for this transaction is approximately HK$1.307 billion, and after the completion of this share offering, Alibaba Group's shareholding in Alibaba Pictures will increase to approximately 54.26%. (Beijing Business Daily)
US media: Musk said he plans to switch the X platform to a monthly payment model to combat the "robot army"
Tesla CEO Musk said that the social platform X (formerly Twitter) plans to switch to a monthly paid usage model to combat the "robot army". He didn't specify how much users would pay, but he said that content posted by paid users will be prioritized, and unpaid users will have a lower priority. (Global Network)
Google makes a last-ditch effort: it wants to overturn the $2.6 billion Google Shopping monopoly
Google is trying to overturn the EU's $2.6 billion antitrust fine in Europe's highest court, which EU antitrust authorities have fined Google $8.81 billion over the past decade. The Commission failed to demonstrate that the company's differential treatment of competitors was abusive and that the differential treatment itself did not constitute anti-competition. European Commission lawyers counter that Google's use of its algorithm to unfairly favor its price-comparison shopping service violates EU antitrust law. (Zhitong Finance Network)
AI weather vane
GPT-5 is coming? OpenAI was revealed to have expedited training of multimodal large model Gobi
The multimodal model showdown between Google and OpenAI is in its hot stages. Google recently opened up the capabilities of the multimodal large model Gemini to some outside companies. OpenAI is integrating GPT-4 with multimodal capabilities, aiming to launch models with similar capabilities to Gemini. At the same time, a new multimodal large model called Gobi is in full swing with OpenAI, hoping to launch multimodal LLM before the release of Gemini in order to completely defeat Google. (Shin Ji Won)
Musk: China will be one of the top countries in the field of AI and has the potential to become the first
According to media reports, Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said that China will be one of the top countries in the field of AI and believes that China has the potential to occupy the first place in the field. (Global Network)
Access rights are set incorrectly! Microsoft AI team 38TB data leak, involving employee computer backup and service passwords
Microsoft mistakenly exposed up to 38TB of internal data for nearly three years due to the missetup of an overly permissive Shared Access Signature (SAS) token, making it possible for anyone to add, remove, and replace content in the account in question. The leaked data included backups of the personal computers of two Microsoft employees, passwords and keys to the service, and more than 30,000 internal group chat messages. Microsoft said no customer data was leaked in the incident. (The Paper)
Tech figures
Deep Network|Dialogue with Honor CEO Zhao Ming: It is impossible to return to Huawei, the two sides are strong opponents
Honor CEO Zhao Ming said that it is impossible for Honor to return to Huawei, and it is appropriate to build itself into a strong competitor of Huawei. In addition, Zhao Ming has a positive attitude towards the strong return of Huawei Mate 60 series, believing that it brings imagination to the industry. At the same time, he commented that iPhone 15 sales will remain at a high level, but users have lower expectations for it. (Tencent News Deep Network)
Smart new products
NVIDIA RTX 5090 latest revelation: architecture overhaul, performance increased by 70%
Panzerlied, a well-known whistleblower, revealed that NVIDIA's next-generation flagship GPU RTX 5090 performance is expected to increase by 70% overall. However, the RTX 40 series has only been released for a year, and according to NVIDIA's plan to update the main general-purpose GPU architecture every two years, the RTX 50 series of Blackwell architecture may not arrive anytime soon. (Heart of the Machine)