U.S. lawmakers urge sanctions on multiple Chinese cloud service providers, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds
1. U.S. Republican senators urge sanctions on Chinese cloud service providers such as Huawei Cloud
Reuters news on April 26: On April 25, local time, a group of nine Republican senators urged the Biden administration to impose restrictions on Huawei Cloud and other companies, citing national security concerns, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Chinese cloud service providers impose sanctions. A previously unreported letter to the Commerce, State and Treasury Departments, spearheaded by Sen. Bill Hagerty, said Chinese cloud computing companies are “increasingly engaging with foreign entities — in some cases - dealings with sanctioned foreign entities that directly challenge the national security and economic security interests of the United States and our allies and partners.”
Source: Reuters
Currently, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and these institutions did not respond to requests for comment. The senators said that Huawei Cloud jointly launched the "Sky Computing Constellation" with Changsha Tianyi Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute in 2021. They noted that Spacety "recently was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for providing critical satellite imagery assistance" to entities in the Russian Federation. "In May 2019, the Commerce Department placed Huawei on a trade blacklist, citing U.S. security concerns. The company denies that it poses a security risk. "We urge you to use all available tools to target Huawei through sanctions, export restrictions, and investment bans. These companies are taking decisive action and further investigating Chinese cloud computing services companies," said the letter signed by Senator Thom Tillis.
The letter also asked Biden administration officials to place Alibaba Cloud on the Commerce Department's export control list, saying its close ties to the Chinese military "make it a clear and ongoing national security threat" and that the Treasury Department should add Alibaba Cloud to the Commerce Department's export control list. List of companies participating in the Chinese military-industrial complex. Previously, Alibaba opened two cloud data centers in Santa Clara, California in 2015. The letter also stated that the Biden administration should consider further investigations or actions against other Chinese cloud service providers, including Baidu Cloud and Tencent Cloud , that may affect U.S. national security. According to Observer.com, in response to this, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference today that we have always opposed the generalization of national security concepts and unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies. This kind of artificial interference in normal economic and trade exchanges between China and the United States. This behavior is unpopular and will ultimately harm the interests of American consumers themselves.
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2. A fire broke out at the construction site of TSMC’s Advanced Packaging and Testing Factory No. 6
According to CNMO news on April 26, a fire broke out at TSMC’s Advanced Packaging and Testing Factory No. 6 site in Zhunan at around 7:30 pm on April 25. Firefighters arrived at the scene as soon as possible and eliminated it at about 9:10 pm. According to the situation, the burning area on site was about 300 square meters, including PP material machines, CPVC pipes, etc., which were ignited. No one was trapped or injured on site.
TSMC said that firefighters and construction site safety teams have launched an investigation into the accident and will clarify the cause of the incident to ensure construction site safety. According to reports, TSMC’s Zhunan plant is under construction and will be an important base for TSMC’s advanced packaging and testing in the future. The area is more than double the total area of other packaging and testing plants.
3. The EU announced the list of “super large” platforms for the first time, and 19 technology giants will face stricter supervision.
Ifeng Technology reported on April 26, the European Commission announced the first list of "very large" online platforms and search engines that are subject to the Digital Services Act, including 19 technology giants such as Apple and Amazon, which means that they will face Tighter regulation and higher risk of fines. The European Union proposed new legislation at the end of 2020 to set out how regulators should strengthen supervision of technology giants. Under the legislation, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which was formally implemented four months ago, regulators can censor content to reduce harmful comments and set rules for the use of artificial intelligence.
This is the first time that the EU has officially recognized which companies will be subject to more stringent supervision by the above-mentioned regulations. More companies may be included in the list in the future. If they do not implement these measures, they may face fines of up to 6% of the company's global turnover. It is reported that the list includes Alibaba’s AliExpress, Amazon Mall, Apple App Store, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, and Wikipedia , YouTube, Zalando, Bing, Google Search.
4. The four major federal agencies in the United States issued statements to supervise the development and use of AI.
According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on April 26, officials from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) jointly issued a statement stating that, It promises to vigorously enforce laws and regulations and supervise the development and use of AI and other technologies. The heads of the four agencies emphasized that they already have sufficient legal tools to deal with the harm caused by AI and urged companies to pay attention to complying with relevant regulations.
FTC Chairman Lina M. Khan said, “We are already seeing AI tools being used for fraud and discrimination, and we will not hesitate to use the full range of our legal powers to protect Americans from these threats. Technological advances can lead to critical innovations ”
5. Alibaba Cloud announced the largest product price reduction in history
The Paper reported on April 26 that at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Partner Conference held this morning, Alibaba Cloud announced the largest price reduction in history. Core product prices were reduced by 15% to 50% across the board, and storage products were reduced by up to 50%. Alibaba Cloud said that as the number one cloud computing vendor in China and the top three in the world, this price reduction will further expand the user base and scale of public cloud and increase the market penetration rate of cloud computing. It is understood that this price adjustment will take effect on May 7. Currently, Alibaba Cloud’s official website has announced a more detailed product price list.
Source: Alibaba Cloud official website
6. It is reported that Meta poached Microsoft executives to lead the chip business
Sina Technology News on April 26, according to two people familiar with the matter, Meta Platform poached a chip executive Jean Boufarhat from Microsoft to be responsible for developing customized chips for hardware devices. It is reported that Boufarhat currently serves as Vice President of Silicon Engineering at Microsoft. He will join Meta's Facebook Agile Silicon Team, replacing Ofer Shachham's position at Meta. The latter moved to Israel from California about a year ago but continued to manage the team after moving there.
According to reports, when Meta previously developed its AI business, it mainly used CPU queues to run artificial intelligence workloads. This was one of the key reasons why Meta lagged behind its opponents in AI progress. Currently, Meta has begun planning internally to develop a new chip, similar to a GPU, that can both train AI models and perform reasoning. The project will be completed around 2025.
7. Fourth Paradigm restarts Hong Kong stock IPO
According to news from World Wide Web on April 26, the AI unicorn company Beijing Fourth Paradigm Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fourth Paradigm") once again submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This is the company's fourth impact on Hong Kong. Exchange, the first three prospectus disclosure times are August 2021, February 2022, and September 2022. It is worth noting that the updated prospectus disclosed that in March this year, the company launched SageGPT, an enterprise-level generative artificial intelligence product designed specifically for business scenarios, and deployed large-model AI products.
According to reports, SageGPT is a generative artificial intelligence product for enterprise users, with multi-modal capabilities for processing text, images, and videos. The data used for pre-training comes from 4Paradigm’s internal database and the customer’s business system. 4Paradigm was founded in 2014. The company mainly uses AI to help customers carry out intelligent upgrades, accelerate the transformation process of traditional industries, improve corporate operating efficiency, and release the growth potential of new businesses. The prospectus shows that 4Paradigm’s revenue has grown rapidly over the past three years or so. Revenue from 2020 to 2022 will be 942 million yuan, 2.018 billion yuan and 3.083 billion yuan; the year-on-year growth rates in 2021 and 2022 will be 114.2% and 52.7% respectively.
8. Experts from Ericsson and Nokia urge the promotion of 6G key spectrum distribution
Sina Finance reported on April 26 that researchers from Nokia Bell Labs and Ericsson believe that the availability of centimeter wave spectrum in the 7GHz~15GHz range is crucial to realizing the potential of 6G. At a 6G seminar at the 6G Innovation Center in Guildford, UK, Magnus Frodigh, Vice President and Head of Research at Ericsson, encouraged the industry to push regulators to provide 6G frequency bands. Frodigh said this asset is a key resource for next-generation network technology.
Discussing the potential spectrum resources to support the wide range of advanced applications that 6G may enable, he noted that in some specific cases, centimeter waves combined with sub-terahertz spectrum may be beneficial. Frodigh said the latter could provide "extreme performance" for niche applications. The important role of the 7GHz and 15GHz bands was also supported by Nokia Bell Labs’ Matthew Baker, who cited this as necessary to realize the potential of 6G. Benefits include supporting the needs of advanced use cases and improving the energy efficiency of network provisioning. "If we're going to achieve (6G) coverage and reliability, we need spectrum."
9. China Telecom Tianyi Cloud will release a large pre-trained model
China Business News reported on April 26 that Hu Zhiqiang, general manager of Tianyi Cloud Technology Co., Ltd., said at the 2023 Cloud Ecology Conference that Tianyi Cloud is independently developing a large pre-training model, which has now entered the internal testing phase and will be released at an appropriate time in the near future. In addition, China Telecom also stated that it will release Tianyi Cloud’s overseas plan.
According to China Telecom's latest financial report for the first quarter of 2023, China Telecom's Q1 revenue was 129.753 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.4%, of which service revenue was 118.478 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%. Net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 7.984 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%; non-net profit after deduction was 8.690 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%. Among them, China Telecom's real revenue growth comes from the rapid growth of industrial digitalization.
10. my country plans to launch 1 to 3 Beidou network backup satellites this year
China News Network reported on April 26 that according to Chen Grangang, deputy director of the China Satellite Navigation System Management Office, my country plans to launch 1-3 Beidou network backup satellites this year to further enhance the constellation’s robustness and availability. In June 2020, the Beidou-3 satellite navigation system, consisting of 24 medium earth orbit satellites, 3 geostationary orbit satellites and 3 inclined geosynchronous orbit satellites, was deployed. In July 2020, the Beidou-3 system officially launched global services.
Since its opening, its operation has been continuous, stable and reliable, and it has continued to provide powerful satellite navigation services. Its high-precision, short message and other special service capabilities have been fully verified. At this stage, Beidou has blossomed in many applications and is widely used in various industries and fields of economic and social development. It is deeply integrated with emerging technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, giving rise to new business formats such as "Beidou+" and "+Beidou". It is reported that in the field of mass consumption, mainstream domestic and foreign smartphone manufacturers such as Huawei, Apple, and Xiaomi all support Beidou. In 2022, domestic shipments of newly added smartphones supporting Beidou will total 260 million units, accounting for 98.5%.
11. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area computing power dispatching platform was officially released
21st Century Business Herald reported on April 26 that the computing power dispatching platform for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was officially released. Shenzhen Data Exchange and Shenzhen National High-tech Industry Innovation Center jointly released a special area for computing resources, which will be launched on Shenzhen Data Exchange. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area computing power dispatching platform is an exploratory experiment carried out by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area big data center in terms of computing power dispatching and computing power services. The platform consists of several major modules such as the official website portal, cloud resource management area, supercomputing area, video area, and computing network resource visualization. It is driven by scenario business and provides computing power integration that integrates data and computing, focuses on applications, and has an open ecosystem. Serve.
The products launched on the Shenzhen Data Exchange this time include general computing power, super computing power and intelligent computing power. The computing power dispatching platform of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be oriented to fields such as artificial intelligence, smart medical care, and industrial information services, and will widely attract outstanding domestic and foreign companies. Fully connected supply and demand sides.
Source: 21st Century Business Herald
12. Pony.ai launches self-driving travel service without safety personnel in the car in Guangzhou
E-commerce News reported on April 26 that Pony.ai recently obtained the first and only remote passenger transport license in Guangzhou, and was allowed to start autonomous driving travel services (Robotaxi) without safety personnel in the car in Guangzhou. It is understood that within the 803 square kilometers of Nansha District in Guangzhou, citizens have the opportunity to call a real self-driving vehicle without a safety officer through the mobile phone software PonyPilot+ to go to high-speed rail stations, subway entrances, key business districts, residential areas, Citizen Park and other destinations.
During driving, if passengers need remote assistance support, they can communicate with remote assistance experts in real time in the car and enjoy a safer and more relaxed travel experience. To date, Pony.ai has accumulated 21 million kilometers of autonomous driving miles, more than 1 million kilometers of unmanned testing, and nearly 200,000 paid travel orders.
13. Meituan UAV Shanghai’s first normalized commercial route officially operates in Jinshan District
China Finance News reported on April 26 that it was learned from Jinshan District, Shanghai that on April 26, Shanghai’s first regular commercial route of Meituan drones was officially launched in Jinshan District. It is reported that Meituan Shanghai’s first normalized commercial route for drones has a total length of 2.2 kilometers, starting from Shanghai Bailian Jinshan Shopping Center and ending at Jinshan Federation of Industry and Commerce Building. It is equipped with three drones with a payload of 2.3 kilograms, each of which is unmanned. The maximum flying height of the aircraft does not exceed 120 meters, and the fastest speed is 20m/s. It can operate normally in light rain and wind conditions below level 5, and can deliver meals within 15 minutes.
The content of this article is compiled from 21st Century Business Herald, Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Ifeng.com Technology, China News Network, Sina Finance, China Business News, The Paper, Sina Technology, Observer.com, Reuters, Global Network, China Financial News Agency, China News Business newspapers, CNMO , etc. are only for communication and learning purposes. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@gsi24.com.
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