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17:43

                            The European Union will raise concerns with the United States about a decision to restrict exports of artificial intelligence chips from companies such as Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) to some of its member states, according to people familiar with the matter.
                        
17:11

                            Intel's US stock rose more than 4% before the market opened
                        
                            Intel's U.S. stocks rose more than 4% in pre-market trading.
                        
15:02

                            A-share closing review: ChiNext Index closed up 0.36%; Robotics sector continued to be active
                        
                            The three major A-share indices rose and fell today. As of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.05%, the Shenzhen Component Index rose 0.48%, the ChiNext Index rose 0.36%, and the Beijing Stock Exchange 50 Index fell 0.51%. The total market turnover was 1.2176 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.3 billion yuan from the previous day. More than 3,200 stocks in the market were in the red. In terms of sector themes, humanoid robots, semiconductors, and consumer electronics sectors led the gains, while Xiaohongshu concepts and photovoltaic sectors led the declines. On the market, the robot concept continued to be active, Zhaomin Technology, Donggang Shares, Jikai Shares, and Zhaowei Electromechanical rose to the daily limit, and Sanhua Intelligent Control, Jianshe Industry, Wuzhou Xinchun and many other stocks rose by more than 5%. Chip stocks rose the most, Aojie Technology, Broadcom Integrated, and Rockchip rose to the daily limit, and Lexin Technology and Allwinner Technology rose by more than 10%. The consumer electronics sector rose the most, Yingtong Communications and Quectel Communications rose to the daily limit, and Goertek and Zhongke Bluexun rose by more than 8%. Xiaohongshu concept stocks fell the most, Huizhou Intelligent, Shitou Shares, and Tianxiaxiu hit the limit. Photovoltaic concept stocks fell the most, Tongwei Shares and Daquan Energy led the decline of constituent stocks.
                        
11:33

                            ETF Midday Review: Asia Pacific Select ETF led the gains with a 5.13% gain, while the Science and Technology Innovation Energy ETF led the losses with a 1.9% gain
                        
                            ETFs closed mixed at midday, with Asia Pacific Select ETF (159687) leading the gains with 5.13%, Science and Technology Innovation AI ETF (588790) up 3.89%, Science and Technology Innovation Chip Design ETF (588780) up 3.70%, Science and Technology Innovation Energy ETF (588830) leading the losses with 1.9%, Energy ETF (159930) down 1.71%, and New Energy ETF E Fund (516090) down 1.6%.
                        
11:31

                            A-share midday review: the three major indexes rose slightly, and the robot sector continued to explode
                        
                            The three major A-share indices rose collectively in the morning. As of noon, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.17%, the Shenzhen Component Index rose by 0.54%, the ChiNext Index rose by 0.32%, and the Beijing Stock Exchange 50 Index rose by 0.21%. The market's half-day turnover was 783.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 13 billion yuan from the previous day. More than 3,400 stocks in the market were in the red. In terms of sector themes, humanoid robots, semiconductors, and consumer electronics sectors led the gains, while Xiaohongshu concepts and education sectors led the declines. On the disk, robot concepts led the gains, Jianshe Industry, Donggang Shares, Jinao Bo, and Jikai Shares rose by the daily limit, Jinao Bo and Jikai Shares rose by the daily limit, Zhaomin Technology and Kelda rose by more than 10%. Chip stocks led the gains, Rockchip rose by the daily limit, Lexin Technology, Allwinner Technology, and Zhongke Bluexun rose by more than 10%. Consumer electronics rebounded, Yingtong Communications and Goertek rose by the daily limit, Lens Technology and Crystal Optoelectronics rose by more than 5%, Xiaohongshu concepts led the decline, Huizhou Intelligence and Shitou Shares both fell by the daily limit.
                        
11:11

                            The Shenzhen Component Index turned positive first in the morning, with semiconductors, robots, AI glasses and other sectors leading the gains.
                        
07:11

                            Altman: Lower your expectations 100 times, OpenAI will not deploy AGI next month
                        
                            On January 20, in response to the statement that "OpenAI has achieved general artificial intelligence (AGI)", the company's CEO Sam Altman denied it, saying that OpenAI will not deploy AGI next month. On Monday, Altman said on the social platform X: "The hype about us having achieved AGI is out of control again. In fact, we will not deploy AGI next month, and we have not developed it." Altman admitted that the company will indeed launch some "cool things", but reminded fans to lower their expectations "100 times."
                        
07:02

                            Well-known software engineer adds evidence that OpenAI agent tool may be released soon
                        
                            OpenAI may be about to release an AI tool that can control your computer and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer known for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims that he has found evidence of OpenAI's long-rumored Operator tool. The Information previously reported that OpenAI plans to release Operator in January, and the code discovered by Blaho over the weekend adds credibility to this report. According to Blaho, OpenAI's ChatGPT client for MacOS has added some temporarily hidden options for defining shortcuts for "Switch Operator" and "Force Quit Operator." In addition, Blaho mentioned that OpenAI has included references to Operator on its website, but these references are not yet publicly visible.
                        
20:24

                            DeepSeek-R1 released, performance comparable to OpenAI o1 official version
                        
                            DeepSeek announced the official release of DeepSeek-R1 and simultaneously open-sourced the model weights. DeepSeek-R1 uses reinforcement learning technology on a large scale in the post-training stage, which greatly improves the model's reasoning ability with very little labeled data. In tasks such as mathematics, code, and natural language reasoning, its performance is comparable to the official version of OpenAI o1.
                        
19:40

                            Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez: The government will approve 150 million euros in subsidies to help companies develop artificial intelligence.
                        
14:40

                            Huarong Co., Ltd. and Tianchuang Robotics signed a strategic cooperation agreement to enter the field of robotics
                        
                            Tianchuang Robotics' official microblog today announced that Tianchuang Robotics and Huarong Co., Ltd. have recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in explosion-proof robots, artificial intelligence products, and overseas market development. Huarong Co., Ltd. has officially established an ecological partnership with Tianchuang Robotics. At the scene, the two parties held an in-depth discussion on the industry market development of intelligent explosion-proof inspection robot product applications. In particular, they reached a consensus on the next step of ecological solution integration, promoting each other and achieving long-term development.
                        
13:51

                            SenseTime's new AI model now available for commercial use
                        
                            SenseTime announced its new AI model, SenseNova-5o, has officially begun offering real-time audio and video conversations to the public, which are free for a limited time.
                        
12:36

                            Junwei Electronics: Has established a deep cooperative relationship with NVIDIA and has already supplied in batches
                        
                            Junwei Electronics responded to investors on the interactive platform on January 20, saying that the company has established a deep cooperative relationship with NVIDIA and has achieved mass supply. NVIDIA has strict control standards for suppliers' product and process R&D capabilities, on-time delivery capabilities, and quality control capabilities. Companies that enter the supply chain can usually obtain long-term and stable orders.
                        
12:28

                            OpenAI said it has solved the high error rate problem of GPT-4o and 4o-mini models.
                        
12:23

                            OpenAI: GPT-4o and 4o-mini model performance has declined, and is under investigation
                        
                            At 11:54 am Beijing time on January 20, OpenAI released an accident report stating that it is currently experiencing performance degradation issues with the GPT-4o and 4o-mini models. An investigation is underway and the latest news will be released as soon as possible.
                        
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