- Right here’s an inside look into ASML’s manufacturing unit and the way it managed to dominate superior chipmaking. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
2. Hong Kong handed a troublesome nationwide safety legislation that makes it extra harmful to protest Beijing’s rule. (BBC)
3. A brand new invoice in France suggests imposing hefty fines on Shein and related ultrafast-fashion corporations for his or her unfavourable environmental impression—as a lot as $11 per merchandise that they promote in France. (Nikkei Asia)
4. Huawei filed a patent to make extra superior chips with a low-tech workaround. (Bloomberg $)
- In the meantime, a US official accused the Chinese language chip foundry SMIC of breaking US legislation by making a chip for Huawei. (South China Morning Put up $)
5. As a substitute of the standard six and a half days every week, Tesla has instructed its Shanghai manufacturing unit to scale back manufacturing to 5 days every week. The slowdown of EV gross sales in China could possibly be the explanation. (Bloomberg $)
6. TikTok continues to be having loads of troubles. A brand new political TV advert (paid for by a mysterious new nonprofit), taking part in in three US swing states, assaults Zhang Fuping, a ByteDance vice chairman that only a few individuals have heard of. (Punchbowl Information)
- As TikTok nonetheless hasn’t reached a licensing cope with Common Music Group, customers have needed to get inventive to seek out different soundtracks for his or her movies. (Billboard)
7. China launched a communications satellite tv for pc that can assist relay alerts for missions to discover the darkish aspect of the moon. (Reuters $)
Misplaced in translation
Probably the most-hyped generative AI app in China lately is Kimi, based on the Chinese language publication Sina Tech. Launched by Moonshot AI, a Chinese language “unicorn” startup, Kimi made headlines final week when it introduced it had began supporting inputting textual content utilizing over 2 million Chinese language characters. (For comparability, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo at present helps inputting 100,000 Chinese language characters, whereas Claude3-200K helps about 160,000 characters.)
Whereas a number of the app’s virality might be credited to a advertising and marketing push that intensified lately. Chinese language customers at the moment are busy feeding fashionable and basic books to the mannequin and testing how nicely it may possibly perceive the context. Feeling threatened, different Chinese language AI apps owned by tech giants like Baidu and Alibaba have adopted go well with, asserting that they are going to quickly assist 5 million and even 10 million Chinese language characters. However processing massive quantities of textual content, whereas spectacular, could be very pricey within the generative AI age—and a few observers fear this isn’t the industrial path that corporations ought to move in.
Another factor
Fluffy pajamas, sweatpants, outdated apparel: younger Chinese language individuals are dressing themselves in “gross outfits” to work—an intentional provocation to their bosses and an expression of silent resistance to the development that glorifies profession hustle. “I simply don’t suppose it’s value spending cash to decorate up for work, since I’m simply sitting there,” one among them informed the New York Occasions.
