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.
