Today's news: Google's AI chat robot Bard's stock price plummeted 7.4%; Huolala entered the errand business; Apple appointed its first chief human resources officer; Disney announced layoffs of 7,000 people; Carrefour China COO resigned
Shares of Google AI chatbot Bard plunge 7.4%
On February 8th, Google's artificial intelligence chat robot Bard gave wrong answers to questions raised by users at a press conference. On the evening of the 8th, when U.S. stocks opened, Google fell by more than 7%, and its market value evaporated by about 102 billion US dollars (about 693.25 billion yuan).
Bard is a competing product of ChatGPT, which has recently exploded and posed a huge threat to Google search. When asked, "What new discoveries can I tell my 9-year-old about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?" Bard had a number of answers, including, among other things, the first discovery of an exoplanet. A photo, taken with JWST.
However, this answer is not accurate. According to NASA, in 2004, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) took the first photo of an exoplanet. This has heightened concerns that the tools in question are not yet ready to be integrated into the search engine.
Huolala enters the errand business
News on February 9th, today, there are media reports that Huo Lala will enter the errand business. In this regard, Huolala confirmed the news to TechWeb.
Huolala said that Huolala will launch a door-to-door running errand service in the same city - Huolala running errands. Two-wheeled electric vehicles will become the main capacity of this business. It is expected that rider registration and user popularity collection will be fully opened in mid-March Activities, and select landing cities based on popularity and online rider registration, and officially open services and riders to accept orders in April.
It is reported that this is the first time that Huo Lala has tried two rounds of business. At present, Huolala's business covers intra-city/cross-city freight, enterprise logistics services, moving, less-than-truckload and other businesses, and its models include vans, small and medium-sized trucks, and large cross-city trucks.
In recent years, companies such as Meituan, Ele.me, SF Express, and UU have all launched errand services, creating a huge market with great potential. According to the "2022 China's Errand Economy Market Insight Report" released by iiMedia Consulting, the scale of China's errand economy market will reach 13.1 billion yuan in 2021. With the continuous growth of consumers' immediate demand and the further improvement of the penetration rate of errand services, the development space of China's errand economy will gradually expand. 75.4%.
Apple names first chief human resources officer
According to news on February 9, Apple CEO Cook sent a memo to employees showing that the company will recruit its first chief human resources officer.
In the memo, Cook said Apple would appoint Carol Surface to the new position. That shifted the responsibilities of Deirdre O'Brien, who has long run Apple's human resources in addition to her role as head of retail.
Surface was poached by Apple from Medtronic, a health technology company with about 100,000 employees. Cook said Surface will report to him and began working at Apple in March.
Disney announces 7,000 layoffs
News on February 8, Disney released its latest financial report on Wednesday and announced plans to reorganize into three departments, while laying off 7,000 employees and substantially cutting costs. Driven by the news, the company's share price once rose more than 9% after hours, and the current increase has narrowed to about 5.2%.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said that it plans to create three core business units-Disney Entertainment, ESPN and Disney Parks, Experience and Products, and cut costs by $5.5 billion. Disney also said it planned to cut 7,000 jobs. As of October last year, the company had about 220,000 employees, of which about 166,000 were in the United States and about 54,000 were overseas.
"This restructuring will make the way we operate more cost-effective, more aligned and leaner, and we are committed to running our business more efficiently, especially in a challenging economic environment.”
Carrefour China COO resigns
According to news on February 8, Zhang Qizhe, chief operating officer of Carrefour China, has recently resigned. Zhang Qizhe himself confirmed the news. According to a person close to Carrefour China, in addition to Zhang Qizhe, several vice presidents of Carrefour China have also resigned recently.
In this regard, Zhang Qizhe said: "I have personally resigned, and I can't say anything about others (the situation)." As of press time, Carrefour has not responded to inquiries about the above-mentioned personnel changes.
According to statistics, two-thirds of Carrefour's currently operating stores have abnormal conditions such as large areas of vacant shelves. Among them, the abnormal operation rate of stores in Beijing and Shanghai is over 80%.
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