Cloud & AI Products - JD Cloud offers bigger discounts on multiple products, average cut over 16%. - Alibaba Cloud raises AI compute and storage prices by up to 34%. - Baidu AI Cloud announces price adjustments for AI compute, storage, and other prod

2026-03-19

Cloud & AI Products - JD Cloud offers bigger discounts on multiple products, average cut over 16%. - Alibaba Cloud raises AI compute and storage prices by up to 34%. - Baidu AI Cloud announces price adjustments for AI compute, storage, and other products. - MiniMax launches next-gen large model M2.7. - Xiaomi releases large model MiMo-V2-Pro. - Germany plans significant AI compute capacity expansion. Corporate & Strategy - Tencent’s Ma Huateng publicly discusses “shrimp farming,” linking it to WeChat decentralization ideas. - HSBC reportedly considering large-scale layoffs; AI restructuring could impact ~20,000 jobs. - Foxconn signs strategic cooperation with SAP to accelerate AI-driven manufacturing and supply chain transformation. - AI security startup Xbow valued over $1B. - Samsung Electronics and AMD sign MoU to explore foundry cooperation.