Today's news: Apple acquires Mira, an AR headset start-up company; Douyin will try its own e-commerce; Tesla's stock price has risen for nine consecutive days; the creator of "Black Mirror" tried ChatGPT to write scripts; Ctrip Group released its 2023Q1 financial report
Apple acquires AR headset startup Mira
June 7 news, according to The Verge, Apple recently acquired a start-up company Mira, which is an augmented reality startup company headquartered in Los Angeles, mainly for different companies to produce head-mounted devices.
Apple has now confirmed the acquisition, but did not disclose the relevant figures. It is reported that Jony Ive, Apple's former chief design officer, worked as a consultant at Mira.
Earlier, on June 6, Apple released Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset priced at $3,499, which Apple calls a new "spatial" computing platform.
Douyin will try its own e-commerce
On June 7, it was reported that Douyin was building and expanding its self-operated e-commerce business matrix in order to prepare for the "618".
In this regard, the person in charge of Douyin e-commerce said that in order to meet the needs of users at different stages, further optimize the user's purchasing experience, and expand the richness of products, the platform will make some self-operated business attempts for some categories that users need.
Tesla's share price achieves nine consecutive gains
News on June 8, according to foreign media reports, as of Wednesday local time, Tesla’s stock price has risen for 9 consecutive trading days, setting a record for the longest consecutive rise since January 2021.
Driven by investors' insatiable interest in large technology stocks and a series of recent good news, Tesla's stock price soared to the highest level in more than six months on Wednesday local time. As of the close of U.S. stocks on Wednesday local time, the company's share price closed at $224.57, up 1.47%.
If calculated according to the closing price on Wednesday local time, the company's market value is 711.776 billion US dollars, which is nearly 300 billion US dollars away from the trillion market value high.
Since hitting a low of $101.81 in early January, the company's shares are up about 110%, in part due to the company's notable efforts to grow its consumer base.
On June 3 this year, Tesla announced that all Model 3 models can enjoy a full tax incentive of $7,500 in the United States. Previously, only the Model 3 High Performance version was eligible for the full tax credit, while the Model 3 rear-wheel-drive version and the Long Range version could only enjoy half the discount, or $3,750. That helped allay concerns that demand for the company's cars, and overall electric vehicle demand, is slowing.
As the stock price rose, Tesla CEO Elon Musk surpassed LVMH Group Chairman Bernard Arnault (Bernard Arnault) to become the world's richest person again. As of Wednesday local time, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index put Musk's net worth at $205 billion, while Arnault's net worth was estimated at $187 billion.
The creator of "Black Mirror" used ChatGPT to write scripts
Beijing time on June 7th, the sixth season of the well-known drama "Black Mirror" will start broadcasting on June 15th. In a recent interview with "Empire" magazine, the creator Charlie Brook admitted that in the process of writing the script, he used ChatGPT to generate an episode of the script, but the effect was not satisfactory.
Brook said that he had played ChatGPT for a while, and the first command he entered was to "generate an episode of "Black Mirror" theme script." He said that the scripts generated by ChatGPT looked good at first glance, but on closer inspection they turned out to be terrible. ChatGPT simply looked up all the synopses for Black Mirror episodes and mashed them together. If you dig deeper, you'll find that there isn't any original content.
Brook said that he also clearly understood from the reply of ChatGPT that the "Black Mirror" series has formed a certain thinking inertia when writing the script. If you can't break your own rules, then the "Black Mirror" series is not necessary. Go on.
Ctrip Group Releases 2023Q1 Financial Report
On June 8, Beijing time, according to 36 Krypton reports, Ctrip Group announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2023.
The financial report shows that in the first quarter of 2023, Ctrip Group's net operating income was 9.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 124%; net profit was 3.4 billion yuan, and the adjusted EBITDA profit margin reached 31%. In the first quarter of this year, Ctrip's accommodation booking revenue was 3.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 140%; transportation ticket revenue was 4.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 150%.
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