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        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.
                        
15:14

                            Yuanchen Technology signed the contract for the Zhundong project 2*660MW unit AI intelligent environmental protection island project
                        
                            On April 28, Yuanchen Technology and Wuhan Optics Valley Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. reached an AI smart environmental protection island project cooperation on the 2*660MW units of the Zhundong project, using the "smart + green" dual engines to drive energy industry transformation.
                        
15:03

                            A-share closing review: ChiNext Index rebounded by 0.83%, with popular TMT themes leading the gains, and bank stocks adjusted
                        
                            The three major A-share indices rose and fell today. As of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.23%, the Shenzhen Component Index rose 0.51%, the ChiNext Index rose 0.83%, and the Beijing Stock Exchange 50 Index rose 2.96%. The total market turnover was 1,193.1 billion yuan, an increase of 151.4 billion yuan from the previous day. More than 3,400 stocks rose in the entire market. In terms of sector themes, Huawei Software, Robotics, Zhipu AI, Consumer Electronics, and Computing Power sectors led the gains; Banks, Electricity, Port Shipping, Tourism and Hotels, Precious Metals, and Food Processing sectors led the declines. On the disk, Huawei Software and AI Computing Power sectors strengthened today, and many stocks such as Creative Information, Changshan Beiming, Zhejiang Wenlian, Hubei Radio and Television, and Dianguang Technology hit the daily limit. Robot concept stocks continued to rise in the afternoon, and more than 10 stocks such as Nanjing Chemical Fiber, Longxi Shares, Xiangxin Technology, Xinzhi Group, and Rockchip Micro hit the daily limit. In addition, the consumer electronics sector also performed well, with Everbright Tongchuang and Yingtong Communications hitting the daily limit. The banking sector collectively adjusted today, with Hua Xia Bank falling 8%, and Bank of Beijing, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, and China Construction Bank all falling more than 3%. The power sector also performed poorly, with Huayin Power hitting the limit at the end of the trading day, and Xichang Electric Power, Shaoneng Shares, and Guangxi Energy leading the decline.
                        
14:27

                            Vimicro releases new AI chip architecture to enable large models to run on a single chip
                        
                            According to the Shanghai Securities News, on April 30, Vimicro released its latest AI chip "Starlight Intelligent No. 5" at the Digital China Construction Summit, and successfully ran the DeepSeek 16B large model. This chip adopts the self-developed general multi-core heterogeneous GP-XPU architecture, which significantly improves operating efficiency and security. The chip supports functions such as video detection and natural language processing, and can be used in smart transportation, smart agriculture and other fields to promote intelligent upgrades, reduce dependence on cloud computing power, and provide new solutions for the construction of a digital China.
                        
14:13

                            Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission launches application process for 2025 "AI+Manufacturing" professional service providers
                        
                            The Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission has issued the following notice on the application for the city's "AI+Manufacturing" professional service providers in 2025: Service providers that focus on the development and application of artificial intelligence in vertical fields of manufacturing, and provide third-party professional services for the research and development and application of intelligent manufacturing, including corpus data, intelligent computing cloud, model platform, intelligent agents and applications, and embodied intelligence. Each applicant can choose up to three categories for application.

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