Lei Jun: Xiaomi has a chance to return to the world's top three; WeChat blocks Weishi links; FF: Jia Yueting has repaid more than $3 billion in debt | Lei Feng Morning News

FF responds to Jia Yueting's resignation as CEO: details of the structural changes will be announced soon, and Jia Yueting has repaid more than $3 billion in debt

On the morning of August 29, in response to media reports that Jia Yueting will step down as FF CEO, FF issued a statement saying that FF has been working hard to promote changes in the company's top-level governance structure since the end of last year, and has officially entered the implementation stage, and relevant details will be announced in the near future.

The statement did not explicitly mention whether Jia Yueting would resign, but FF insiders revealed to Sina Technology that Jia Yueting would indeed step down as CEO in this top-level governance structure change.

FF further stated that through this governance structure change, more outstanding talents will join in succession. FF's previous organizational optimization has promoted the company's organizational structure change and global integration collaboration, and promoted more capable and young middle-level managers to leadership positions.

In addition, regarding Jia Yueting's debt problem, FF also stated in a statement that Jia Yueting has repaid more than 3 billion US dollars of domestic debts in various ways over the past two years, and the establishment of the debt repayment trust fund is to solve the debt problem as soon as possible. (Sina Technology)

Jack Ma: I hope to be a woman in my next life. 90% of artificial intelligence uses female voices.

On August 28, the biennial "Global Women Entrepreneurs Conference" organized by Alibaba was held in Hangzhou. Jack Ma delivered a speech at the conference, emphasizing the importance of women to enterprises.

At the beginning of the meeting, Jack Ma said, "I was the only man invited to the first women's conference, and I regret it. This time we have 10% men. I really hope to be a woman and raise a bunch of children in my next life."

51% of Alibaba's designers and nearly half of its product testers are women. Tmall Genie's design and training are also done by women. In the world of robots, women still determine beauty and good standards. I think women pay more attention to user experience, are better at communication, and have a better understanding of beauty. 90% of artificial intelligence uses female voices, and the gender settings are basically female. (The Paper)

Lei Jun: Xiaomi still has a chance to return to the top three in the world

At the 40th anniversary celebration of the China Quality Association, Lei Jun said, "We are still young after all, and our foundation is not solid enough. It is normal that we were later surpassed by Huawei. Many people asked me why Xiaomi could not surpass Apple or Huawei. I think every entrepreneur should have such determination. But it takes time and a foundation. After several years of laying a solid foundation, I am proud to tell you that we are ranked fourth in the world today, and we still have a certain chance to return to the top three in the world. "

On August 22, at the second forum in the series of forums celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lei Jun said: Xiaomi's return to the top five in the world is a small miracle.

In 2016, Xiaomi encountered huge challenges and fell out of the top five in the world. In 2017, its mobile phone business returned to the fourth place in the world, and in 2018, its mobile phone shipments exceeded 100 million units. (Sina Finance)

Dong Mingzhu and Lei Jun start a new bet: No more 1 billion, just another 5 years

On August 28, Dong Mingzhu, chairman of Gree Electric Appliances, said in Beijing that the 1 billion bet with Lei Jun has ended, and everyone knows the result. I don't want the 1 billion anymore, and I want to bet with Lei Jun for another 5 years.

Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi, responded: "I think we can give it a try." Previously in 2013, Dong Mingzhu and Lei Jun made a 1 billion yuan bet on who would have higher turnover in five years, and Gree won in the end. (China News Network)

Weishi invite friends to earn rewards activity was blocked by WeChat: click the link can not be opened

News on the afternoon of August 28th, it was learned that the Weishi activity of inviting friends to earn bounties was banned by WeChat. When the invitation link to friends was forwarded to WeChat, it could not be opened after clicking.

When you open a link to invite friends on Weishi on WeChat, you will be prompted that "access to this page has been stopped," and it will say that the page contains content that induces sharing, following, and other misleading behaviors, and has been complained by many people. In order to maintain a green Internet environment, access has been stopped. (Sina Technology)

Evergrande's auto brand "Hengchi" makes its first public appearance in the AFC Champions League

At 8:00 pm on August 28, the first leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals kicked off, with Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao facing Japan's Kashima Antlers. The words Evergrande Auto and Hengchi appeared on the front of Evergrande players' jerseys for the first time.

Before the 2015 AFC Champions League final, Guangzhou Evergrande's chest advertisement suddenly changed from "Dongfeng Nissan Qichen T70" to "Evergrande Life Insurance", and that was also the first public appearance of Evergrande Life Insurance. (PingWest)

Sogou announces the opening of the Dictation Alliance and establishes an AI Innovation Alliance with Patriot, Newman, etc.

Following the release of the smart voice recorder C1 with functions such as real-time shorthand and simultaneous interpretation on March 18 this year, Sogou announced the opening of the "Sogou Dictation" service alliance on August 28, and announced the establishment of an AI Innovation Alliance with four voice recorder companies: Patriot, Newman, Sony Voice Recorder and Wancheng Group.

Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan attended the event and introduced Sogou's AI roadmap in his speech: based on the two major products, Sogou Input Method and Sogou Search, it extends in the two directions of natural interaction and knowledge computing. Among them, Sogou Input Method focuses on natural interaction, and will output new technologies and new functions through hardware products; Sogou Search focuses on knowledge computing, and through knowledge questions and answers, it will delve into the fields of law, education, health, etc.

Under this roadmap, Sogou's ultimate product plan is to create an intelligent assistant. Currently, Sogou has gradually launched products such as intelligent hardware, translation, and synthetic anchors. (Tencent Frontline)

SAIC Ali reorganized Banma Network and Ali became the largest shareholder

On August 28, SAIC Motor and Alibaba announced that the two parties will strategically reorganize Zebra Networks and YUNOS, and expand the areas of cooperation to areas such as automotive travel platforms, autonomous driving, and automotive industry cloud.

After the strategic reorganization, Alibaba will become the largest shareholder of Banma Networks. Alibaba said that the overall intellectual property rights and business of the YUNOS operating system will be injected into Banma. Banma will have complete ownership and use rights of the YUNOS underlying architecture code and can authorize automobile brands or their designated partners to use it.

At the same time, Zebra Networks will further open up to the entire automotive industry and combine the core basic technologies of the YUNOS operating system to allow the Zebra system to enter more car brands.

In 2016, SAIC Motor and Alibaba jointly invested in the establishment of Banma Network. Currently, there are nearly one million Internet cars equipped with Banma system on the road around the world, including Roewe, MG, MAXUS, Dongfeng Citroen, Changan Ford, Qoros, Baojun, Skoda and other brands. (Tencent First Line)

Apple officially apologizes for privacy issues: will no longer keep Siri interaction recordings

On the evening of August 28, Apple officially issued a statement to apologize for Siri's privacy issues and said it was improving Siri's user privacy protection policy. By default, audio records of Siri's interactions with users will no longer be retained, and computer-generated text will continue to be used to help Siri improve.

However, users can actively choose to help Siri improve by learning voice samples of user requests and can opt out at any time. When users choose to join, only Apple employees are allowed to listen to audio samples of Siri interactions, and Apple's team will work to delete any Siri recordings that are determined to be unintentional triggers.

Apple said it has always believed that privacy is a basic human right and has been working hard to strengthen privacy protection. Apple has noticed users' concerns about privacy and has begun a comprehensive review of relevant practices and policies. Therefore, Apple decided to bring these changes to Siri. (IT Home)

Apple iOS 13.1/iPadOS 13.1 first public beta released

August 29th news Apple today released the first public beta of iPadOS and iOS 13.1, one day after the release of the developer beta.

Although iOS 13 is still in the Beta testing stage, the launch of iOS 13.1 Beta is not Apple's mistake, but it is indeed a surprise. It also shows that the iOS 13 testing has ended, and Apple may want to launch the official version of iOS 13.1 shortly after the official version of iOS 13 is launched.

iOS 13.1 provides some features that were removed from the iOS 13 beta test, such as Shortcuts Automation and the Share Arrival Time feature in Maps (IT Home)

Google plans to move Pixel production from China to Vietnam

On August 29, according to foreign media reports, in order to increase production and reduce costs, Google is planning to transfer the production of its Pixel smartphone from China to Vietnam. It is not clear whether this move will affect the production of the upcoming Pixel 4.

Google has reportedly begun converting a Nokia smartphone factory in Bac Ninh, northern Vietnam, into a production center for Pixel phones. This happens to be where Samsung has been developing its smartphone supply chain for the past decade, meaning Google will have direct access to a ready supply of skilled workers.

It is reported that Google aims to increase smartphone production and shipments to 8 million to 10 million units by the end of 2019, which is about twice the production a year ago. (NetEase Technology)

Amazon plans to invest in Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek to expand into Southeast Asia

According to foreign media reports, people familiar with the matter said that Amazon is negotiating with Go-Jek, an Indonesian online car-hailing service startup, to discuss investment matters. The negotiations are still in the early stages. Amazon hopes to make a large-scale investment in Go-Jek to utilize Go-Jek's delivery infrastructure in Indonesia. Amazon and Go-Jek have not yet commented on this.

Last September, it was reported that Amazon was considering expanding its business to Indonesia and was currently discussing this possibility with the country's Ministry of Finance. This is the second Southeast Asian market that Amazon is about to enter after Singapore.

The report also said that Amazon has prepared $2 billion in initial capital to expand into Southeast Asia, of which $600 million will be used for the first year of operations in the Indonesian market. (Tencent Technology)

YouTube to set up separate website for children to deal with controversy over inappropriate videos

On the morning of August 29, YouTube was criticized and investigated for showing inappropriate videos to children on its main website. Today, YouTube announced that it will launch an independent website specifically for children.

The new website is equivalent to the online version of the YouTube Kids mobile app and will be launched later this week. In addition, the Kids App and website will provide various content for children according to age groups. YouTube classifies children into: Preschool (preschool children), aged 4 years old or younger; then Younger, aged 5-7 years old; and then Older, aged between 8-12 years old.

YouTube said in a statement: "We know that some content is great for a 4-year-old but may not be suitable for a 10-year-old, which is why we want to make it easier for parents to choose content for their children on the YouTube Kids platform." (Sina Technology)

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