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        2025.05.02
    
19:12

                            AI smart travel becomes a highlight of this year's May Day holiday. Cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen welcome nearly 60% of tourists from all over the country
                        
                            The big data platform analysis found that using AI to make travel plans, rent cars and drive by yourself has become a new highlight. In the week before the May Day holiday, the number of active users of AI and car rental apps increased by 14% and 32% respectively compared with weekdays. In addition, the number of cycling apps increased by 27% compared with weekdays. Big data analysis found that the scale of the tourist population is expected to increase by 8% compared with last year. In terms of domestic travel, first- and second-tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai are still the "top stream", directly accounting for nearly 60% of tourists in the country! The scale of rural tourists also increased by 12% in the week before the holiday, and Yunnan, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Hunan and other places firmly occupied the C position of rural tourism.
                        
05:58

                            Market news: Apple CEO Cook said he is still excited about the company's artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) roadmap.
                        
01:15

                            According to The Verge: Microsoft (MSFT.O) is in talks with Musk's startup XAI regarding the latter's large-scale Grok AI model.
                        
00:15

                            Market news: Google (GOOG.O) will test AI search mode outside the laboratory.
                        
        2025.05.01
    
08:59

                            Google embeds ads in AI chatbots
                        
                            Google’s ad network has begun showing ads in the context of chatbot conversations — one of the steps Google parent Alphabet is taking to maintain its edge in digital advertising amid the rise of generative artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, Google’s AdSense network, which has traditionally shown ads in search results and on the margins of websites, was expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by artificial intelligence startups. Google made the decision after testing it with several startups last year and earlier this year, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner, according to people familiar with the matter.
                        
07:35

                            The number of people traveling during this year's May Day holiday is expected to increase by 8% compared to last year
                        
                            The popularity of traveling during the May Day holiday this year has been rising since April 22, and it reached its peak on May 1! The size of the tourist population is expected to increase by 8% over last year. The number of active users of related apps has directly "taken off". In the week before the holiday, the number of active users of AI and car rental apps increased by 14% and 32% respectively compared to usual; the number of cycling apps increased by 27% compared to usual, and friends in the Yangtze River Delta region were particularly "addicted". Stimulated by favorable policies such as transit visa-free and departure tax refund services, more and more foreign friends are coming to China to check in. In the week before the holiday, tourists from visa-free countries accounted for nearly 70%, and the number of tourists from France, Mexico, Austria, Russia, and Germany increased by more than 79%.
                        
06:00

                            AI chatbot startup Glean is in discussions to raise around $150 million.
                        
05:13

                            Meta Platforms CEO Zuckerberg: Meta AI applications will focus on scaling and increasing user engagement this year and will focus on business development next year.
                        
        2025.04.30
    
22:15

                            Xiamen International Bank and Huawei Sign Framework Agreement to Deepen Cooperation
                        
                            Xiamen International Bank and Huawei signed a framework agreement to deepen cooperation at the 8th Digital China Summit. According to the cooperation agreement, the two parties will deepen cooperation in financial service innovation, financial technology empowerment, talent training and other aspects, jointly explore new paths for the integrated development of finance and technology, and promote the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of the financial industry. Zou Zhiming, deputy president of Xiamen International Bank, said that the deepening of strategic cooperation with Huawei is an important measure for the bank to further promote the deep integration of AI technology and financial scenarios on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. Peng Xiongji, vice president of Huawei's China Region, said that this cooperation is a new chapter of cooperation opened by the two parties on the basis of the strategic cooperation agreement reached in 2021. The two parties will work together to contribute more to the high-quality development of the financial industry and the prosperity of the real economy.
                        
18:47

                            WeChat Security Center: Some third-party tools illegally obtain user data under the name of "AI management of user WeChat chat records"
                        
                            On April 30, the WeChat Security Center issued an announcement stating that it has recently discovered that some third-party tools have bypassed WeChat security technical measures in the name of "AI management of user WeChat chat records" and illegally obtained or used WeChat terminal user data. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of users, WeChat will crack down on related behaviors in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations and platform rules such as the "Tencent WeChat Software License and Service Agreement" and the "WeChat Personal Account Usage Guidelines". The WeChat Security Center reminds users not to install or use any third-party tools that access local chat records.
                        
18:37

                            DeepSeek releases Prover-V2 model with 671 billion parameters
                        
                            DeepSeek released a new model called DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B on the AI open source community Hugging Face today. It is reported that DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B uses a more efficient safetensors file format and supports multiple calculation precisions, which facilitates faster and more resource-saving model training and deployment. It has 671 billion parameters and may be an upgraded version of the Prover-V1.5 mathematical model released last year. In terms of model architecture, the model uses the DeepSeek-V3 architecture, adopts the MoE (mixed expert) mode, has 61 Transformer layers, and 7168-dimensional hidden layers. It also supports ultra-long contexts, with a maximum position embedding of 163,800, enabling it to handle complex mathematical proofs, and uses FP8 quantization, which can reduce the model size and improve reasoning efficiency through quantization technology.
                        
17:29

                            Kuaishou increases the priority of KeLing AI and establishes a first-level department
                        
                            Kuaishou established the Keling AI business unit today. Keling and Ketu are Kuaishou's self-developed large models for video generation and image generation, respectively. At the Kuaishou earnings call on March 25, 2025, Kuaishou CEO Cheng Yixiao said that the comprehensive effect of Keling AI's "picture-generated video" function is currently ranked first in the world. According to official data, Keling AI's cumulative operating income has exceeded 100 million yuan since its commercialization until February of this year. We understand that Keling AI's revenue in the first three months of this year has exceeded the total for the second half of 2024. A Kuaishou person said that AI has always been Kuaishou's company-level strategy. This organizational upgrade means that Keling AI's importance in Kuaishou's overall large model strategy has been further enhanced, and the team can develop business more flexibly, acquire and mobilize more resources to maintain its competitive advantage in the field of visual large models.
                        
17:06

                            The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has launched a special campaign to "clear up and rectify the abuse of AI technology"
                        
                            The Cyberspace Administration of China has deployed a special campaign called “Clear and Clear: Rectifying the Abuse of AI Technology”.
                        
16:33

                            Rockchip: Plans to launch coprocessor solutions this year
                        
                            On April 30, Li Shiqin, deputy general manager of Rockchip, stated at the 2024 Shanghai Stock Exchange Main Board Artificial Intelligence Special Collective Performance Briefing that this year the company plans to launch a coprocessor solution to solve the contradiction between the rapid growth of computing power demand and the slow iteration and upgrade cycle of SoC system-level chips. On the basis of the original mature solutions, combined with AI upgrade needs, it will further assist the implementation of AI to meet the needs of large model operations on the edge.
                        
16:08

                            Musk: Grok 3.5 will be released next week
                        
                            On April 29, local time, Elon Musk announced on social media that the early beta version of Grok 3.5 will be released to SuperGrok subscribers next week. Musk said that Grok 3.5 is the first AI that can accurately answer questions about rocket engines or electrochemical technology. It starts from first principles and can even give answers that do not exist on the Internet. This means that when answering user questions, Grok 3.5 does not simply provide answers found on the Internet, but uses its own understanding and reasoning ability to help users answer professional questions.

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