Finance
Christmas toy rush being driven by squishies and building sets
A bumper year so far for toy sales comes as debate intensifies over screen time and tech connectivity.
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Aldi cuts hundreds of UK head office roles as part of global cost trimming
Supermarket’s move labelled ‘shortsighted’ by worker who calls upper management ‘woefully out of touch with reality’ Aldi’s UK business is cutting hundreds of head office roles as part of a global effort to trim costs at the budget grocer. The retailer is consulting with its technology team on the loss of up to 150 roles after 103 redundancies in its finance and administration team earlier this year and almost 20 more redundancies among buying directors. Continue reading...
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Finance
Huang Renxun's crisis: CEO position may not be guaranteed, the export control storm behind an extramarital affair
Cybersecurity expert Alperovitch asserted in a CNBC interview that it is almost impossible for Huang Jen-Hsun to retain his position as CEO: What is really fatal is not the extramarital affair, but a series of accusations of circumventing U.S. export controls and interfering with federal investigations.
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AI short drama melee: What major companies compete for is scripts or next-generation traffic entrances
What big companies really have in their hands are three things: what content can be put online, how much traffic it can get after it goes online, and what proportion it will be settled at.
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Business
1 billion Token open source tens of thousands of fake birds, AI pseudo-science popularization is "polluting" the common sense of the next generation
People cannot, or at least should not, regard rigorous natural science as the scene of an AI skills competition # Welcome to follow Aifaner’s official WeChat public account: Aifaner (WeChat ID: ifanr), more exciting content will be provided to you as soon as possible.
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When kindergartens disappear one after another, there is an ebb of parenting anxiety
In just a few years, this chain of anxiety is loosening.
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The next step for the middle class to be budget-conscious: Super Double 11
Those who have money don’t know what they want to buy, and those who don’t have money don’t know what they can buy.
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If BLG wins the championship, who will be the big winner in business?
Medical beauty is allowed
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中国55%的Token烧在短剧，美国58%烧在代码：Token的流向，暴露了AI的两种“活法”
本文通过核验 GitHub Copilot 用户与付费订阅数据、AI 短剧算力成本，厘清行业容易混淆的两组关键数字，对比流量型与生产力型 AI 的差异，拆解 Token 流向背后的商业逻辑，剥离行业流传的不实叙事，还原当下 AI 产业真实的付费与成本面貌。
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Politics
Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice This is how it works. An industry puts tremendous effort into resisting change: lobbying governments, mobilising the media, pouring money into junktanks. It argues that a transition would threaten jobs, or damage the national interest, or harm poor people, while what it really fears is the cost of retooling its plants or developing new protocols. Then, when the inevitable cliff edge approaches, it whines that change is coming too soon. For reasons beyond its control, it is
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Finance
Prime property, slow sales: why London’s stock of empty high-end flats is piling up
Homes in the West End, Mayfair and Marylebone are going unsold – and developers are counting the cost London has no shortage of luxury flats. There are ultra-modern blocks in the most upmarket neighbourhoods – including Chelsea, Kensington and Mayfair – that offer marble lobbies, concierge services and views across the city’s skyline. The problem for property developers is finding wealthy residents to fill them, leaving brand-new properties in London’s most desirable postcodes standing empty. Continue reading...
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