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McDonald's responds to the use of expired ingredients; Wang Hua responds to the Xiaomi SU7 brake failure

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McDonald's responds to the use of expired ingredients; Wang Hua responds to the Xiaomi SU7 brake failure

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Shenzhen: Do a good job of "exchanging the old for the new" housing

Recently, the "trade-in" of housing has aroused heated discussions in many parties. It is reported that Shenzhen's commercial housing "old for new" and "for Xin home" activities were launched on April 23, as of May 10, 30 real estate brokerage institutions, 34 real estate development enterprises have participated in the activities, and a total of 34 real estate projects have participated.

Making housing "trade-in" like household appliances is undoubtedly an innovative exploration for the benefit of the country and the people. This is not only conducive to speeding up the circulation of commercial housing, improving the convenience of transactions, and better meeting the rigid needs of residents and the demand for improved housing, but also helping to resolve the delivery risk of the new housing market and promote the transformation of the real estate industry. (Shenzhen Special Zone Daily)

Foshan relaxes the household policy: after three years of employment, you can also rent a house

The Office of the Foshan Municipal People's Government issued a notice on the adjustment of household matters for stable residence and employment. The notice points out that non-household registration personnel who hold their own residential houses with legal property rights in the city, or who have been legally and stably employed in the city for 3 years (paying social insurance for 3 consecutive years, or doing business for 3 consecutive years, can be complementary) and have a legal and stable residence (including lease), can apply for household registration, and their spouses and minor children who live together can move with them.

Beijing will vigorously promote the charging of new energy vehicles

The reporter learned from the launching ceremony of the 2024 Beijing Energy Conservation Publicity Week held on the 13th that Beijing will vigorously promote "new energy vehicle charging and new energy electricity", innovate and explore the trading mechanism to promote the consumption of green electricity by electric vehicles, stimulate the potential of both sides of supply and demand, guide and encourage the purchase and use of green electricity for electric vehicle charging loads, and realize green travel for electric vehicles. (Xinhua News Agency)

Company figures

McDonald's responded that some stores were exposed to changing the label of expired ingredients

On the evening of May 13, McDonald's China issued a statement on recent media reports: We are actively cooperating with the local market supervision department to investigate and verify. We will not tolerate any violation of the operating standards and will take it seriously. We apologize for the impact on the restaurants involved.

On the same day, the media exposed undercover McDonald's Zhengzhou Excellence Agricultural Federation Restaurant and McDonald's Jinan University Restaurant, and found that both restaurants had problems such as tampering with food shelf life labels, using expired ingredients, selling food after the expiration date, and cutting corners.

Wang Hua responded to the Xiaomi SU7 brake failure: it was indeed misidentified by the software, and the "small probability" event has been fixed

Wang Hua, general manager of the public relations department of Xiaomi Group, posted on Weibo today to respond to the Xiaomi SU7 brake failure: I verified it, and it was indeed a misidentification of the software. At present, this small probability event has been fixed, and there is no need to panic.

Wang Hua said that he had found engineers from the automotive department to help sort out the situation, and after analysis, it was confirmed that the system of the main brake controller (DPB/BCP) of the vehicle at that time misidentified the degradation to trigger the backup braking strategy, and the brake auxiliary controller (ESP/BCS) directly responded to the braking demand to provide braking deceleration for the vehicle; At the same time, the large screen of the vehicle also reported a fault prompt for the braking system.

Xuan Jing spoke out after her resignation

On May 12, blogger Brother Leopard bluntly (Li Bao) posted a video talking about the controversial remarks of former Baidu Vice President Xuan Jing, which attracted comments on Xuan Jing's social account. The blogger said that the reason why Xuan Jing can become the vice president of public relations of a large factory is that this position does not require any specific work, and all the work is done by subordinates. The blogger also expressed his views on the abilities, professional backgrounds, and employment concepts that executives need to have.

Xuan Jing's social account commented under the video, "You just rub a little less, spread less rumors, leave some morality to be a person, do I know you?" Who are you to review me? Regarding the comments of other netizens who simulated Xuan Jing's tone and proposed to change the topic for discussion, Xuan Jing's social account also replied: You vicious bad guy!

Douyin's official response: The online restrictions on financial and medical care and other content are published as false information

Recently, it has been rumored on the Internet that Douyin restricts the publication of current political, financial, legal or medical content. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Douyin said that the restriction on the release of current political, financial, legal or medical content is false information. The relevant adjustment is to the authorization function of commercial material release, which does not affect the creator's other monetization or commercialization capabilities, including self-publishing of commercial materials, advertising, e-commerce, etc., and does not involve content creation. (Sina Technology)

The settlement price of Tinghua wine exposed at the 315 party was adjusted to 3989 yuan / bottle

Qinghai Spring Medicinal Resources Technology Co., Ltd. issued the "Notice on Adjusting the Standard Price of Tinghua Liquor", adjusting the settlement price of the standard packaging distributor of Tinghua Liquor from May 9, from the original settlement price to 3989 yuan per bottle. Today, ST Spring's share price is "down to the limit", with a total market value of only 1.961 billion yuan. (Zhongxin Finance)

NIO's second brand is about to be released, and the first car will be benchmarked against Tesla's Model Y

Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, said in a recent interview, "In the past 10 years, NIO has completed the process from 0~1, and the upcoming release of the Ledao brand means that we will enter a new process of '1 to 10' or '1 to 100'. It is reported that in 2024, Ledao Auto will independently build an offline sales network of no less than 200, and the stores will adopt a direct sales model.

Li Bin said that in the market segment where Ledao Automobile is located, Xiaomi Automobile, Li Auto, Zeekrypton, etc. all have very good products on sale, and they have enough psychological preparation for the challenges encountered by Ledao. "The reuse of software and hardware can expand the scale effect, bring a significant reduction in costs and improve R&D efficiency, and realize the cost reduction of R&D, of which the cost of Ledao L60 will be reduced by about 10% compared with Tesla Model Y." Li Bin said. (CBN)

Wuliangye sued Feitian Prince Liquor for infringement The latter was sued by Moutai

Tianyancha legal litigation information shows that recently, Yibin Wuliangye Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Feitian Prince Liquor Co., Ltd. related to the design patent infringement dispute case added a new court announcement, the plaintiff is Yibin Wuliangye Co., Ltd., the case will be heard in the Intermediate People's Court of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province on June 12. It is worth mentioning that previously, Guizhou Feitian Prince Liquor Co., Ltd. was sued by Kweichow Moutai Liquor Co., Ltd. for trademark infringement.

In addition, intellectual property information shows that the company has applied for trademarks such as "Flying Prince", "Flying Prince 1935" and "Flying Prince 1935", and the international classification includes wine, advertising sales, etc., however, the above trademark applications have been rejected.

Xiaomi and JD.com have comprehensively deepened strategic cooperation with a three-year target of 200 billion

According to Xiaomi's official blog, recently, Xiaomi and JD.com reached a new strategic cooperation, Xiaomi Group Partner, President and President of the International Business Department Lu Weibing, Jingdong Group CEO Xu Ran attended the ceremony and witnessed the strategic signing.

The two sides have clarified Xiaomi's goal of 200 billion yuan in JD.com's omni-channel sales in the next three years, and will jointly promote the popularization of multi-category Xiaomi smart hardware products, so that more users can enjoy Xiaomi's full-scene intelligent experience, and accelerate the full development of the "people, vehicles, and home ecology" strategy.

Zhong Xue Gao Lin Sheng responded to whether love should be controversial or not

Recently, Lin Sheng, the founder of Zhongxuegao, talked about the controversy of "Do you want love" when he was a guest on Wu Xiaobo's channel, saying that his words were maliciously edited, "cutting your A question and B answer together". "What's even more terrifying is that what we were shown before the broadcast was two different things from what was actually broadcast."

In 2021, a program broadcast an interview with Lin Sheng, and according to the content of the program, Lin Sheng said: "Zhongxue's gross profit is actually slightly higher than that of traditional cold drink companies. The most expensive one has been sold for 66 yuan, and the cost of the product is almost 40 yuan. ”

Tencent Music has 113.5 million online music paying users

According to the financial report, Tencent Music's core data in this quarter exceeded market expectations, and the online music business continued to grow strongly. Among them, the revenue of online music subscription was 3.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.2%. The number of paid online music subscribers recorded the largest net increase in a single quarter to date, with a net increase of 6.8 million quarter-on-quarter to 113.5 million. Adjusted net profit increased by 23.9% year-on-year to RMB1.81 billion.

In addition, Tencent Music disclosed in its quarterly financial report that it will pay its first annual dividend and is expected to pay an annual cash dividend of about US$210 million (about 1.516 billion yuan) for fiscal year 2023 to shareholders of record as of the record date.

Suspected of rubbing the popularity of star Kobe, Guizhou Kobe Liquor changed its name

The reporter noticed that on May 11, Guizhou Kobe Liquor Co., Ltd. has been changed to Guizhou Laoke Liquor Co., Ltd., and on social media, videos such as Kobe Sauce Wine have also been deleted.

The Baihe Jiayuan store exposed by 315 was fined 1.5 million

Tianyancha business risk information shows that recently, Guangzhou Tianhe Branch of Beijing Huaqianshu Information Technology Co., Ltd. was fined 1.5 million yuan by the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Tianhe District, Guangzhou City on suspicion of false publicity and violation of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law.

The reason for the punishment shows that after the CCTV 315 party in 2024 was exposed, many marriage and love platforms such as Baihe.com and Century Jiayuan have "matchmakers" who use anxiety to harvest consumers. After verification, some of the video content exposed by the party was filmed in the offline store of "Baihe.com Century Jiayuan" operated by the party, and the people who appeared in the relevant video were also employees of the party. There are a total of 11 videos related to the parties, and the parties confirm the authenticity and relevance of the content of the videos, and confirm that in the specific context of promoting paid marriage and love intermediary services, the remarks in the videos are considered as a logically related whole, constituting a set of words that are a mixture of truth and falsehood and misleading to unspecified consumers.

Huang Guangyu, the former richest man, visited Changsha at night, and Leerle responded: He is in a two-way familiar stage with Gome

According to Times Finance, the former richest man Huang Guangyu has set his sights on discount stores again. "At present, we are in the stage of two-way familiarity with Gome, the framework agreement has been signed, and the cooperation plan for implementation is being discussed." Che Haiyan, vice president of Leerle Group, told reporters.

Leerle is the largest hard discount supermarket in China. At the end of April, Huang Guangyu, the founder of Gome Group, visited the retail chain in Changsha, Hunan Province, and was personally received by founder Chen Zhengguo and his senior management team. Huang Guangyu and his entourage successively visited Changsha Leerle Shanghe International General Warehouse, Yuhua District Supply Chain Center, Kaifu District Shared Warehouse, and Lightning Warehouse, which represents instant retail.

Taobao revised homepage: The channel entrance is presented from three columns to two columns

A reporter from Beijing Business Daily exclusively learned that Taobao once again adjusted the homepage business channel, changing from the three fixed channels of "Taobao Live", "Taobao Good Price" and "Taobao Shopping" to two major channels, and launched corresponding entrances such as "Taobao Live" based on the frequency of user use, and the area has been reduced.

The entrance to the icon bar such as "Tmall Global" and "88VIP" has been reduced from the past two columns to one column. At the same time, Taobao has expanded the proportion of the area recommended by the double waterfall of goods, and most of the products launched are the user's previous search history.

New Oriental Cultural Tourism signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Fliggy and others related to research and study tours

At the 2024 Zhejiang Provincial Research and Tourism Industry Exchange and Co-creation Conference, New Oriental Cultural Tourism Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement on omni-channel marketing and promotion of the research industry with Fliggy Travel, the Research Committee of Zhejiang Museum Society, Hangzhou Fuchun Shanju Group Co., Ltd. and other enterprises. This is the first time that there is public information showing that New Oriental Cultural Tourism Group has a strategic cooperation with an online travel platform.

Wanda established a cultural tourism industry company in Beijing

Tianyancha App shows that recently, Beijing Wanda Cultural Tourism Industry Co., Ltd. was established, the legal representative is Zhang Chunyuan, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan, and its business scope includes tourism development project planning and consulting, organization of cultural and artistic exchange activities, management of tourist attractions, landscaping engineering construction, animation and game development, cultural and entertainment broker services, marketing planning, hotel management, passenger ticketing agency, etc. According to shareholder information, the company is wholly owned by Dalian Wanda Group Co., Ltd.

According to media reports, in August last year, Wanda Group announced on its official website that it would change its name to Wanda Cultural Tourism Group. In March this year, the board of directors of Wanda Group issued a message agreeing to Zhang Lin's resignation as president of the cultural tourism group and appointing Zhang Chunyuan as the executive president of the cultural tourism group, responsible for the overall work of the cultural tourism group.

Tesla's Shanghai Energy Storage Gigafactory received construction permits

Recently, Tesla's Shanghai energy storage super factory construction project has completed the issuance of construction permits. This is Tesla's first energy storage gigafactory project outside of the United States. According to the company's official announcement, the factory plans to start construction in May this year and will achieve mass production in the first quarter of next year.

Subsequently, the Shanghai Energy Storage Gigafactory will produce ultra-large commercial energy storage battery Megapacks to help grid operators, utility companies and others store and distribute renewable energy more efficiently. More than 200 Megapacks can form an energy storage power plant that can store 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.

AI Alerts

OpenAI发布全新模型GPT-4o

On May 14, OpenAI announced the launch of its latest flagship generative AI model, GPT-4o, which will be integrated into OpenAI's products in phases over the coming weeks. The most surprising thing is that GPT-4o will be available to all users for free.

GPT-4o will run much faster, and the biggest highlight is the new technology used in its voice interaction mode. OpenAI has been working on allowing users to communicate with ChatGPT through their voice, as if they were talking to a real person. However, the previous version had a significant impact on the immersion of the conversation due to latency issues. GPT-4o uses a new technology to make chatbot conversations much more responsive. (IT House)

OpenAI推出Mac版ChatGPT

On May 14, OpenAI finally launched the ChatGPT desktop app, and the company said in an official announcement: "Starting today, we will first roll out the macOS app to Plus users and make it available to a wider range of users in the coming weeks." We also plan to launch a Windows version later this year. ”

ChatGPT将变身AI语音助手? 挑战Siri和谷歌语音助手

The new product will be released soon, and Ultraman's latest statement may imply that OpenAI intends to use artificial intelligence voice assistants. On May 11, local time, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI, said in a podcast that OpenAI will continue to improve and improve the quality of ChatGPT's voice functions, and expressed his belief that voice interaction is an important way to lead to future interactions.

"The ability to interact with each other in multiple modalities is very powerful, like asking, 'Hey, ChatGPT, what am I looking at?' or 'I'm not quite sure what kind of plant this is.'" According to foreign media reports, the function that OpenAI is developing is an artificial intelligence voice assistant, which can compete with Apple's Siri and Google voice assistants. (surging)

It was revealed that it will mass-produce AI chips in 2025 and be supported by SoftBank Arm in response

With the escalation of AI chip competition, more and more technology companies have begun to develop AI chips. Recently, it was reported that Arm has established an AI chip division, aiming to achieve mass production in 2025. Buoyed by the news, Arm rose more than 5% in the pre-market of U.S. stocks on May 13.

Since the beginning of this year, Arm's stock price has risen by nearly 45%. On May 13, the reporter asked Arm for confirmation, and the other party said: "Arm does not comment on any rumors and speculations. (Yicai)

Zuckerberg said that electricity will replace GPUs, calling it the new bottleneck of AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview with YouTube's Dwarkesh Patel channel that the shortage of GPUs in AI data centers is already in the process of easing, and the bottleneck in the future will be power supply.

Haier Consumer Finance has released a vertical model, and three consumer finance companies have been exploring the innovation of the model

At present, the combination of consumer finance and large models is changing the face of traditional financial services, and key links such as customer service and marketing have been deeply optimized.

The reporter found that among the 31 consumer finance companies that have opened, Haier Consumer Finance, Immediate Consumer Finance, and Zhaolian Consumer Finance have released large-scale model-related applications. Su Xiaorui, a senior researcher at Suxi Zhiyan, said that the current vertical large model is an important trend, and on the one hand, it can be closely integrated with the business of consumer finance companies to promote the application of large models to be more targeted. On the other hand, the training and optimization of vertical large models are more accurate, which can continue to empower specific processes such as marketing and risk control for consumer finance companies. (China Times)

Montnets Technology: Reached a strategic cooperation with Huawei's supplier Huahao Electromechanical to promote the AI intelligent computing server and domestic information innovation server business

Montnets Technology's official WeChat news today, on May 10, Deng Tuquan, chairman of Huaxia Kunpeng Technology and Shenzhen Huahao Electromechanical, visited Montnets Technology for business exchanges and signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will focus on the AI intelligent computing server and domestic information innovation server business, and jointly build technology research and development, product production, solutions, marketing and other systems to provide customers with overall computing solutions.

It is reported that Montnets Technology has established a large-scale IDC data center in Northeast China, and is currently planning to integrate resources to build and upgrade into a large-scale intelligent computing center, and provide a full-stack environment of software and hardware with intelligent computing power such as GPU and AI chips as the core, and build an intelligent computing center that can carry model training, inference, multimedia rendering, cloud hosts, cloud phones and other services. Founded in 2001, Huahao Electromechanical is the core strategic supplier of the global telecommunications giant Huawei, and is a high-tech company specializing in server business, with its main products being intelligent computing servers, switches, optical modules, etc.

The SoftBank Group will invest 10 trillion yen in the "AI revolution."

The "AI revolution" proposed by Masayoshi Son, chairman and president of Japan's SoftBank Group (SBG), has begun. SoftBank Group plans to expand its business into industries such as data centers, robotics, and power generation using AI semiconductors as a breakthrough. It is estimated that the investment amount can reach up to 10 trillion yen (about 464.09 billion yuan). Microsoft and other companies in the United States are also making huge investments in the field of AI, showing that global technology giants have entered the growth field of AI. (Nikkei)

Beijing Chaoyang took the lead in releasing a three-year action plan for the high-quality development of AI-enabled education in the city

In the next three years, Chaoyang District will focus on "reducing burden, increasing efficiency, and improving quality", focusing on the five aspects of artificial intelligence technology empowering teachers, classrooms, students, schools and management, implementing "ten tasks", promoting "ten educational application scenarios", helping teachers to accurately teach and research and efficient classroom teaching, and promoting students' personalized learning and diversified development. (Chaoyang, Beijing)

Capital Insights

Shenzhi Medical completed the B+ round of financing of nearly 10 million US dollars

On May 13, Subtle Medical Inc., an AI medical imaging company, announced the completion of a B+ round of financing of nearly $10 million, with a cumulative financing amount of more than $50 million. The investors include previous investment institutions such as Fusion Fund, a Silicon Valley investment institution, as well as a new US dollar fund, ENVISIONX Capital, Bluerun Ventures, a Silicon Valley headquarters fund of BlueRun Ventures, Shanghai Wenzhou Investment and other strategic partners in the Asia-Pacific region.

Rongsu Technology completed the Pre-A+ round of financing of 10 million yuan

On May 13, the official WeChat account of Suzhou Rongsu Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of the Pre-A+ round of financing of 10 million yuan, led by the fund of Zhejiang University Holding Group and followed by the old shareholder Jiuhe Venture Capital. This round of financing will be used for new technology research and development and commercialization.

Technology forward-looking

iOS 17.5 is released

On May 14, Apple just pushed the iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 official update, more than two months after the release of iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4. According to the update in the China version, this update introduces a new "Rainbow of Lights" wallpaper for the lock screen and includes other enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates for iPhone. (IT House)

The M4 version of the MacBook Pro is expected to be released in October

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said in the latest issue of the Power On newsletter that Apple will launch the MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with chips from the M4 series later this year. Specifically, Gurman estimates that the 14-inch MacBook Pro will be powered by the M4 chip, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models will be powered by the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, and the Mac mini models will be powered by the M4 and M4 Pro chips.

古尔曼预估苹果会在 2025 年为 MacBook Air、Mac Studio 和 Mac Pro 更新 M4 芯片,古尔曼并未提及 iMac。

魅族旗下首款车型命名魅族MX

According to the official website of Meizu Unbounded Zhixing, Meizu's first model will be named "Meizu MX". The model will use the Flyme Auto full-case intelligent vehicle machine system. In addition to the Meizu MX, models that use the system include the Lynk & Co 07, Lynk & Co 08, Galaxy E5, Lynk & Co Zero.

According to the news, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 chip is redesigned to face the Apple A18, with a target frequency of 4.26GHz

According to source jasonwill101, Qualcomm is currently redesigning the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor with a new target frequency of 4.26GHz, a change that is mainly in response to Apple's M4 / A18 / Pro processors. It is reported that Qualcomm is optimistic about the redesigned processor, and they believe that thanks to TSMC's 3nm "N3E" process, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is indeed expected to be able to reach the relevant target frequency.

However, it's also worth noting that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 doesn't support the Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) feature, which may be a new target frequency of 4.26GHz for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor, given that Apple already uses the ARMv9 architecture and supports Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) technology, and Qualcomm competitors lack relevant features. However, it seems that phone manufacturers need to adopt a larger heatsink area to keep the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 running at high performance.

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