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Apple's "batterygate" incident, with Apple paying $500 million (about 3.5 billion700 million yuan) to usher in the final situation. According to the latest information shared by foreign netizens, Apple has begun to issue compensation to users, and some people have received payments one after another, with each compensation being about 9217 US dollars (equivalent to about 660 yuan), some of whom may receive a total of nearly 1,000 US dollars in compensation.
Since November last year, large Chinese cloud computing companies such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have been testing samples of Nvidia's special chips. They have indicated to Nvidia that the number of chips ordered from Nvidia this year will be far less than the banned Nvidia high-performance chips that they had planned to buy. In the short term, the performance advantage of Nvidia's downgraded chips over local Chinese products is shrinking, which makes domestic chips more and more attractive to buyers. Alibaba and Tencent are shifting some advanced semiconductor orders to local companies and relying more on chips developed in-house, people familiar with the matter said. The same is true for the other two major chip buyers, ByteDance.
On January 7, Tencent's WeChat team posted a bug on WeChat's private circle of friends, saying, "Sorry for the trouble caused to everyone. On January 1, a very small number of users posted a private circle of friends, and friends can see the red dot of the user's avatar in the circle of friends, but they cannot see the specific content. This bug has been completely fixed. ”
Xiaomi Auto released "Answer 100 Questions from Netizens (Part I)" on Weibo. Xiaomi Auto said that mobile phones are still the core business of Xiaomi, and the core foundation of our people, cars and home ecology strategy, and Mr. Lei is still very concerned about the technology research and development of mobile phone business. Mr. Lei said last year that at this stage, his time and energy allocation is roughly as follows: at least 1 4 time is still spent on mobile phone research and development business, 1 4 time is spent on group operation and management, and 1 2 time is spent on automobile business.
According to the AI Large Model Factory, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, participated in the "2023 Wind Horse Cattle Year-end Show" and shared his top ten trends on large models in 2024**. Large models are everywhere, becoming the standard for digital systems, open source large models have exploded, "small models" have emerged, running in more terminals, large models, and the rise of the enterprise-level market, and the development of agent agents in the direction of industrialization and verticalization to stimulate the potential of large models and become super productivity tools 2024 is the year of large model application scenarios, and TOC has become the killer application multimodality of large models, and it has become the standard for large models Breakthrough growth in function, the robot industry ushered in a revolutionary development model, and promoted breakthroughs in basic science in the course of the speech.
According to Shenzhen Business Daily, citing the American "Fortune" magazine, a few days ago, the Washington Consumer Protection Alliance accused Starbucks that in the past five years, Starbucks has counted customer recharged and unused gift cards and app balances into the company's revenue, thereby increasing the company's profits and increasing executive bonuses, involving nearly 900 million US dollars (about 6.4 billion yuan).
According to the Washington Consumer Protection League, Starbucks' mobile app and digital payment card platform resemble "involuntary subscriptions." Due to the minimum top-up amount, it is often difficult to clear the balance in a customer's gift card. For most customers, it may be a few dollars wasted, but Starbucks is making a lot of money from it. A Starbucks spokesperson refuted this claim to Fortune magazine, saying that the company has always complied with laws and regulations.
On the evening of January 6, Moutai released the Year of the Dragon Zodiac Liquor, with a market guide price of 2,499 yuan per bottle. With the listing of "Dragon Mao", the competition in the Zodiac wine market has further intensified. Since 2014, Moutai has released a Moutai Zodiac liquor every year, and the year of the dragon is the eleventh. The guide price of the Moutai market in the Year of the Dragon is 2499 yuan bottles, and the reporter noticed that the current third-party platform "Long Mao" is 5499 yuan bottles. Industry insiders said that the current market size of zodiac wine is about 20 billion yuan.
Musk's die-hard fan "DogeDesigner" shared a report on platform X about Musk's long-term drug use, worrying Tesla and SpaceX leadership, and sarcastically wrote: "Breaking news: Today's ** is all about drugs. In one of his next posts, he wrote: "The stronger X gets, the more frequent the attacks on Musk will be. Reason: Traditional** is a direct competitor to X. Musk responded: "This is to be expected. They will destroy X at any cost. ”