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2025.04.30

07:23

Paramount board to settle Trump's '60 Minutes' lawsuit

The board of directors of Paramount PARA.O, parent of CBS News, has outlined acceptable financial terms for a settlement with U.S. President Donald Trump over the "60 Minutes" lawsuit, The New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with internal discussions.

2025.04.26

17:34

The world's first three-duct wearable single-person aircraft made its first successful flight in Hangzhou

The first wearable single-person aircraft based on a three-duct configuration in China successfully made its maiden flight in Hangzhou. Developed by Hangzhou Zhiyuan Research Institute, the aircraft has a range of ≥8km, a maximum flight altitude of ≥1km, a flight time of ≥20min, and a maximum speed of ≥60km/h. Tian Congling, a senior engineer at Hangzhou Zhiyuan Research Institute, introduced that it uses ducted power and rudder fusion control, which is efficient and reliable. In terms of human-computer interaction, the aircraft can be used with AR helmets and joystick operations to achieve intelligent interaction, and can free both hands in the automatic driving state to achieve high-altitude operations. From the application point of view, it can be used in scenarios such as emergency rescue, flight experience, and low-altitude economic aerial operations.

2025.04.25

06:45

AI glasses become a new favorite among consumers, and listed companies are entering the market

Since the beginning of this year, artificial intelligence (AI) glasses have rapidly moved from concept to reality and have become the new favorite in the consumer market. Faced with this highly prosperous track, many brands have made efforts and intensively released smart glasses-related products. Brands such as Rokid, Snap, Baidu, Thunderbird Innovation, and XREAL continue to innovate and bring consumers AI glasses products with diverse functions and novel designs. At the same time, companies such as Samsung, OPPO, Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance are also actively deploying AI glasses projects in an attempt to seize the initiative in this emerging market. According to Wellsenn XR forecast data, artificial intelligence + augmented reality (AR) technology is expected to develop to a mature stage, and global AI glasses shipments are expected to grow to 80 million pairs in 2030.

2025.04.24

18:29

Anko Bio: Boshengji obtains implicit approval for drug clinical trials

Anko Bio announced that the UTAA09 injection jointly developed by Boshengji Pharmaceutical Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and Boshengji Anko Cell Technology Co., Ltd., in which the company holds a stake, has obtained implicit approval from the Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration. The drug is the world's first generic off-the-shelf CD19-UCAR-Vδ1T cell product approved for clinical trials, and is indicated for adult relapsed/refractory acute B-lymphocytic leukemia (B-ALL).

07:19

Major companies are releasing new games intensively to compete for overseas markets

Recently, the SPARK2025 Tencent Games Conference was held online, announcing the latest developments of 46 domestic and overseas games, including 24 new games. Unlike in the past, this conference showcased products in three chapters: "production", "distribution" and "investment" for the first time, allowing the industry to see the latest developments of the business that has contributed nearly 200 billion yuan in annual revenue to Tencent. Tencent's game ecosystem is a microcosm of China's game industry today. In recent years, the share of domestic games in the global game market has continued to increase, and many excellent game works have won a large number of loyal players in overseas markets, and the results of game exports are quite impressive.

2025.04.23

14:18

Zuo Shaoyi of Nuoan Fund: The value of new infrastructure of artificial intelligence is realized and AI smart terminals are optimistic

Recently, the technology sector has become one of the most dynamic sectors in A-shares and Hong Kong stocks. Zuo Shaoyi, fund manager of the technology group of Noah Fund, believes that the technology sector market in 2025 is still optimistic. There may be twists and turns, but the trend will not change. Zuo Shaoyi believes that the cost reduction of artificial intelligence is driving AR glasses, service robots, etc. into the consumer market; the large models on the application side are deeply integrated into industries such as intelligent driving, and new technology infrastructure and information innovation are also directions worthy of attention in the future. The computing power competition caused by large model training is the key to the development of the global technology industry. It reduces the cost of training and using large models, brings benefits to smart terminals and software applications, and "vehicle-road-cloud integration" is a necessary condition for the further development of intelligent driving. Zuo Shaoyi emphasized that domestic large models are also integrated into multiple fields such as finance and medical care, and intelligent upgrades are achieved through customized development, promoting the coordinated development of industry standards and application ecology. Future investment will focus on smart terminals and applications, paying attention to the reduction of computing power costs, large model upgrades and iterations, and enabling industry progress at low cost.

07:46

ByteDance Open Source Multimodal AI Agent—UI-TARS-1.5

ByteDance has open-sourced the latest 1.5 version of its multimodal AI Agent UI-TARS. Compared with the previous generation, version 1.5 performed very well in benchmarks such as computer use, browser use, and mobile phone use. In terms of computer use, the OSworld test score was 42.5, higher than Open AI CUA's 36.4, Claude 3.7's 28, and the previous highest level of 38.1 (200 steps); Windows Agent Arena (50 steps) scored 42.1, far exceeding the previous 29.8.

2025.04.22

08:11

CITIC Securities: MCP accelerates the development of the AI industry and benefits software companies with data, customers and scenarios

OpenAI launched three GPT-4.1 series models, as well as new reasoning models o3 and o4-mini, achieving significant optimizations in multimodal processing, code capabilities, instruction following, reasoning, and cost. At the same time, the scaling law on the inference side is still ongoing during the development of the o3 model, verifying the correctness of the direction of expansion of the reinforcement learning paradigm. The average daily token call volume of the Doubao large model has exceeded 12.7 trillion, which is three times that of December 2024. The launch of the Doubao 1.5 Deep Thinking model is expected to further promote user usage. Alibaba AI open source community MoDa launched the new MCP Plaza on April 15, exclusively launching new MCP services such as Alipay and MiniMax, continuing to accelerate the expansion of the MCP ecosystem. CICC believes that MCP accelerates the development of the AI industry. 1) It is beneficial to software companies that have data, customers, and scenarios. AI products are expected to drive the company's ARPU increase and project unit price increase; 2) The demand for model privatization increases, which is beneficial to all-in-one machines, hyper-convergence, and B-side service outsourcing companies.

00:37

US President Trump to meet with Walmart and Target executives

US President Trump will meet with Walmart and Target executives.

2025.04.21

23:09

U.S. cryptocurrency stocks rise; ISHARES Bitcoin Trust gains 4.1%

U.S. cryptocurrency stocks rose, with the ISHARES Bitcoin Trust up 4.1% and the PROSHARES Bitcoin Strategy Exchange-Traded Fund up 3.9%.

23:08

U.S. cryptocurrency stocks rose, with the ISHARES Bitcoin Trust up 4.1% and the PROSHARES Bitcoin Strategy Exchange-Traded Fund up 3.9%.

15:15

Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University jointly developed a new AR training method

Zhang Peng's team from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wen Wen's team from the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University have collaborated to develop a new augmented reality (AR) training method. This approach enables selective intervention of visual pathways in everyday life scenarios, significantly and durably enhancing the visual abilities of healthy adults and patients with amblyopia. The relevant research results have been published in Advanced Science.

2025.04.20

16:15

Tengyuan Cobalt: Plans to set up a joint venture and invest in a copper and cobalt hydrometallurgical smelting plant project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tengyuan Cobalt announced on the evening of April 20 that in order to further ensure the supply of raw materials for domestic cobalt smelting enterprises after the company's expansion, the company plans to use its own technological advantages and SAWA CONGO MINING SARL (SAWA Group)'s resource advantages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company's wholly-owned subsidiary Hong Kong Tengyuan and Hong Kong Kenvista, which is under the same control of the actual controller of the SAWA Group, jointly invested to establish a joint venture in Hong Kong and set up a project operating company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the joint venture to carry out copper mine project cooperation. It plans to purchase new land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to build a hydrometallurgical plant project with an annual output of 30,000 tons of copper and 2,000 tons of cobalt. The project investment amount is 980 million yuan, and the construction period is 18 months. The 2024 annual report disclosed by Tengyuan Cobalt at the same time shows that the company achieved a net profit of 685 million yuan in 2024, an increase of 81.24% year-on-year. The company plans to pay a cash dividend of 5 yuan (including tax) for 10 shares.

2025.04.19

13:17

Poinsettia: Clinical trial of AR882, an innovative gout drug, enters the critical Phase III stage

On April 19, the reporter learned from Yipinhong that the company's global Phase III clinical trial REDUCE 2 of its innovative gout drug AR882 has recently completed the enrollment of all patients, which means that the domestic and international clinical trials of AR882 have fully entered the critical Phase III stage. The person in charge of the AR882 project research and development told reporters that the data from the global multi-center Phase II clinical trial of AR882 that has been completed showed that compared with existing therapies, AR882 is more effective and safer in treating gout patients. In addition to reducing sUA levels in gout patients, AR882 can also significantly reduce tophi, reduce the burden of uric acid crystals, and reduce the rate of acute gout attacks. This achievement not only fills the gap in global tophi dissolution therapy, but is also listed as a key variety by the Greater Bay Area Branch of the National Medical Products Administration.

2025.04.18

17:13

Xiaomi's large model team proposed a diagonal snake-shaped autoregressive image generation method

Xiaomi's big model team announced that it has recently proposed a new generation method, namely the diagonal snake-like order autoregressive image generation method (DAR) with direction awareness. It is reported that it does not draw line by line, but generates each pixel flexibly along the diagonal line of the image like a snake. The relevant papers, training codes, and model weights have been open sourced.

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