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- Ren Zhengfei’s latest speech exposed: Apple is Huawei’s teacher
- OPPO responds to rumors of restarting chip design business: No comment
- Taking over from Yu Chengdong, Jin Yuzhi, president of Huawei's optical product line, becomes CEO of Automotive BU
- iFLYTEK Vice President Du Lan joins Hechuang Automobile as Co-President
- Microsoft AI team accidentally leaked 38TB of data, including more than 30,000 team internal messages
- Google Bard welcomes update: supports plug-in function for fact-checking
- Intel Developer Cloud Platform is fully online
- Intel releases Meteor Lake processor: PC separate module design AI capabilities further improved
- Attention old fruit fans! Battery life of old iPhones plummets after upgrading to iOS 17: actual test is too outrageous
- IBM promises to train 2 million AI talents by the end of 2026
- DeepMind co-founder: The next stage of artificial intelligence is interactive robots
- JDK 21 big release
- 40th Anniversary of GNU and the Free Software Movement
- Linux kernel prepares to remove Itanium IA64 architecture
domestic news
Ren Zhengfei’s latest speech exposed: Apple is Huawei’s teacher
Recently, the minutes of conversations between Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei and the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Competition) foundation, coaches, and gold medal winner students were recently exposed. Ren Zhengfei said: "Because my daughter is studying in the United States, it would be very inconvenient for her to go to class if she doesn't use Apple. We don't want to be exclusive. We often explore why Apple's products are so good, and we can also see the gap between us and Apple." I am very happy to have a teacher. I can have the opportunity to learn and make comparisons. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I am a fruit fan from these perspectives." (Observer Network)
OPPO responds to rumors of restarting chip design business: No comment
It is reported that OPPO has restarted its chip design business and has begun recruiting former Zheku Technology employees to return. OPPO responded: No comment. Previously, OPPO’s chip company Zheku Technology was disbanded and terminated related businesses. OPPO has launched two Mariana chip products, among which MariSilicon X uses N6RF technology and is equipped with ultra-high-speed Bluetooth technology.
Taking over from Yu Chengdong, Jin Yuzhi, president of Huawei's optical product line, becomes CEO of Automotive BU
It is learned from multiple information sources that Jin Yuzhi, president of Huawei's optical product line, has recently taken over as CEO of Smart Car Solutions BU, while Yu Chengdong serves as Chairman of Smart Car Solutions BU.
Prior to this, the intersection of Huawei's optical product line and automotive BU was Huawei's newly established smart automotive optical business in recent years. Smart vehicle lighting includes AR HUD, smart car lights, light field screens and other products. A senior industry insider commented: With the return of Huawei mobile phones, Yu Chengdong can focus more on mobile phones. (HiEV Garlic Granule Vehicle Research Institute)
iFLYTEK Vice President Du Lan joins Hechuang Automobile as Co-President
Du Lan, vice president of iFlytek, joined Hechuang Automobile as co-president. This is also the first time Du Lan has proactively disclosed his whereabouts since it was revealed that he resigned from iFlytek in April. This exposure comes from the self-introduction video released by Dulan on Douyin. Although it was not mentioned in the video copy, in the subtitles, Dulan's job description was as co-president of Hechuang Automobile and executive director of Zhujiang Investment Management Group.
international news
Microsoft AI team accidentally leaked 38TB of data, including more than 30,000 team internal messages
Cloud security company Wiz released a report saying that Microsoft's artificial intelligence research team accidentally leaked 38TB of additional private data when it released open source training data on GitHub, including keys, disk backups of two employees' workstations, and more than 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. These are caused by a misconfigured SAS token. Wiz believes this case serves as a reminder for engineers to fully consider the security measures needed to organize AI research. Microsoft also quickly deleted the exposure data after receiving the warning. (Interface News)
Google Bard welcomes update: supports plug-in function for fact-checking
Google's AI robot Bard has been updated with fact-checking and user data analysis capabilities, and supports plug-in functions and answer-checking functions. The updated version improves collaboration efficiency in various languages and countries around the world. Google says this is the most powerful version of Bard yet.
Intel Developer Cloud Platform is fully online
On September 19, local time, Pat Gelsinger announced at the 2023 Intel on Technology Innovation Conference that the Intel Developer Cloud Platform is fully online, which can help users build, test and optimize AI and scientific computing applications, running from small to large scale Scale AI training, model optimization, and inference workloads for high performance and efficiency.
The Intel Developer Cloud Platform is built on oneAPI, an open programming model that supports multi-architecture and multi-vendor hardware. It provides developers with hardware choices and gets rid of proprietary programming models to support accelerated computing, code reuse and Meet portability requirements. At the same time, the AI inference and deployment operation tool suite OpenVINO version 2023.1 was also released.
Intel releases Meteor Lake processor: PC separate module design AI capabilities further improved
Intel released its latest Meteor Lake processor on September 19 in San Jose, California, which is Intel's most energy-efficient PC processor to date and features a new discrete module architecture design. Meteor Lake is built on the Intel 4 process technology and is one of Intel's most efficient PC processors to date. In addition, it also has features such as further upgrades in AI capabilities and high-performance hybrid architecture, making Intel the main development direction in the fields of edge computing and AI. The first batch of Meteor Lake will be targeted at notebook computers, and is expected to be shipped to the brand in the first quarter of 2024.
Attention old fruit fans! Battery life of old iPhones plummets after upgrading to iOS 17: actual test is too outrageous
A few days ago, Apple pushed the official version of iOS 17. Several users reported that the battery life of their mobile phones became shorter after the upgrade. After testing through the battery test function of Geekbench, foreign media iAppleBytes finally concluded that "the battery life of all these old models is reduced". Among them, the battery life of iPhone 13 and iPhone XR has dropped significantly, and the battery life of iPhone XR has reached a new low since iOS 14. (Quick Technology)
IBM promises to train 2 million AI talents by the end of 2026
IBM issued a statement saying that in order to help narrow the global artificial intelligence (AI) skills gap, it committed to training 2 million AI talents by the end of 2026. IBM said it will add AI-focused training to the existing IBM SkillsBuild platform and will be specifically targeted at underrepresented groups. IBM said its new free course will teach generative AI prompt writing, machine learning, and using AI to improve customer service. IBM also said it will expand cooperation with universities around the world to achieve its training goals. (Interface News)
DeepMind co-founder: The next stage of artificial intelligence is interactive robots
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind, said in an interview: Generative AI is just a stage, and the next step is interactive AI. Robots can complete the tasks you set for them by calling other software and people. Interactive AI can be more flexible and can take actions on its own if given permission, Suleyman said.
"This is a very profound moment in the history of technology that I think a lot of people are underestimating," he added. Suleyman previously predicted that within five years everyone will have an artificial intelligence assistant. His company, Inflection AI, launched chatbot Pi in May as a ChatGPT competitor focused on personal advice and conversations. However, there are also concerns that the generative AI boom may be exaggerated. Visits to the ChatGPT website fell for the third consecutive month in August, according to data from web analytics firm Similarweb.
Programmer Zone
JDK 21 big release
On September 19, JDK 21 officially entered GA, that is, it reached the official release status. The new features of this version include: structured concurrency, scoped values, disabling dynamic loading of agents, and key encapsulation mechanism API. , switch pattern matching, virtual threads, string templates and other 15 final new feature values. For details, you can check the official https://jdk.java.net/21/release-notes
40th Anniversary of GNU and the Free Software Movement
On September 27, 1983, computer scientist Richard Stallman announced plans to develop the Unix-like free software operating system GNU. The name GNU stands for GNU's not Unix. GNU is the only operating system developed to safeguard user freedom and has done so for forty years. It provides a complete ethical alternative to proprietary operating systems. The history of the free software movement begins with GNU. Zoë Kooyman, executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), said that the GNU system is not only the most widely used operating system based on free software, but also the core of the philosophy that has guided the free software movement for forty years. On September 27, the FSF will celebrate 40 years of GNU and the free software movement. Today, forty years later, free software is more important than ever. Software has penetrated deeply into our daily lives, but it cannot be controlled by most users.
Linux kernel prepares to remove Itanium IA64 architecture
Earlier this year, kernel developers discussed removing Intel's Itanium IA64 architecture because it was largely unused and unmaintained. Now half a year later, the Linux kernel is really ready to remove the Itanium architecture. Intel has phased out Itanium processor products in 2021. Linux 6.6, which is under development and is expected to be selected as a long-term support version, is likely to be the last kernel version to support the Itanium architecture. The pull request to remove the Itanium architecture has entered the linux-next branch, which means that if nothing unexpected happens, Linux 6.7 will remove support for Itanium. (Solidot)