Klarna, a Swedish payment company, said that it stopped recruiting hundreds of employees because of AI during the year. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, a Swedish payment company planning to go public in the US, said that the company stopped recruiting a year ago, mainly because it invested in artificial intelligence (AI), which can replace the work of hundreds of employees in the company. According to Siemiatkowski, the number of employees decreased by 22% to 3,500 within one year, mainly due to brain drain. He pointed out that at present, about 200 employees in the company use artificial intelligence for their core work, and will improve the efficiency of artificial intelligence by accelerating the salary growth of employees.Shangpin home delivery and Shulan signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to Shangpin home delivery, on December 11th, Shangpin home delivery and Shulan formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement at Changshun Group headquarters. The two sides will break through the customized track, explore the path of "customization+software" integration and co-construction, jointly explore market channels, and provide consumers with more convenient, personalized and professional home solutions through integrated and integrated ecological scenarios.Shanxi Securities: Sora officially launched the AI video generation tool, which continued to iterate. Shanxi Securities Research Report pointed out that 1) On December 10th, OpenAI officially launched Sora. Compared with the version released by OpenAI in February, the new Sora launched this time added Storyboard, Remix, Re-cut and other functions, which greatly improved the video re-creation ability and optimized the video generation speed and generation method. 2) Since the beginning of this year, domestic enterprises have begun to accelerate the research and development and iteration of AI video generation products, and the product capabilities have been continuously improved and the application scenarios have been continuously broadened. Sora was officially launched, and the video creation ability was significantly improved, and it began to change from a creative tool to a productivity tool. With the continuous iteration of AI video generation tools represented by Sora, its penetration into various application scenarios is expected to accelerate in the future. On the one hand, the application layer suggests focusing on creative, design, education and other multi-modal fields, especially video generation. On the other hand, the demand for computing power in video generation model is significantly higher than that in text, focusing on AI computing power related targets.
The People's Procuratorate of Fujian Province decided to arrest Lou Wenlong according to law. The case of Lou Wenlong, former member of the Party Committee and vice president of Agricultural Bank of China, was investigated by the National Supervisory Commission (NSC) and transferred to the procuratorate for examination and prosecution. A few days ago, the Fujian Provincial People's Procuratorate made an arrest decision on Lou Wenlong on suspicion of accepting bribes. The case is being further processed. (highest inspection)The Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong stocks opened lower by 0.78%, the index of state-owned enterprises fell by 0.88%, and the branch index opened lower by 1.01%.Good wife set up an intelligent technology company in Quanzhou, and the enterprise search APP shows that Quanzhou Sunguest Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. was established recently, with the legal representative of Cao Caifeng and the registered capital of 500,000 yuan. Its business scope includes: engineering and technical research and experimental development; Network and information security software development; Software development; Digital technology services, etc. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the company is wholly owned by Haotai.
Hong Kong stock Jingtai Holdings plunged nearly 15%, and the company's 1.464 million restricted shares are expected to circulate freely from today.Cantor Fitzgerald, the nominee of Trump Secretary of Commerce, was fined by the SEC, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company, for allegedly violating the regulatory disclosure regulations related to the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) before raising funds. Cantor agreed to settle the SEC's allegations with a civil fine of $6.75 million, and agreed not to violate the relevant laws and regulations again, but the company did not admit or deny the relevant allegations. It is worth noting that Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor, was recently nominated by US President-elect Trump as the Secretary of Commerce, and Lutnick is also the co-chairman of Trump's transition team.Trump said that he will meet with Amazon founder Bezos next week. US President-elect Trump said on Thursday that he will meet with Amazon founder Bezos next week and stressed that he will continue to contact with technology giants before returning to the White House, including those companies that have signed contracts with the US government. Trump pointed out that he had met with Meta CEO Zuckerberg earlier and had extensive contact with Tesla CEO Musk.