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A viral video of a restaurant owner quietly slipping cash to a mother and daughter who ordered only a six-yuan bean-sprout dish was staged by the video's producer to farm traffic, a Chongqing district investigation team announced on November 12. The case is the latest in China's crackdown on fabricated 'positive-energy' content.
The singer Liu Huan died in September at 63, and his death certificate cited septic shock. A letter published by his wife on the 49th day after his death reveals he had been fighting bladder cancer for fourteen years — and refused bladder-removal surgery to keep working.
NVIDIA's founder Jensen Huang stepped down as president, CEO and board member on Wednesday, effective immediately, after a week of affair allegations and reports that the board was preparing to oust him. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, Harvey Jones becomes the company's first board chairman, and the stock fell more than 13% at one point before recovering most of the loss.
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Beijing's investment-security office has prohibited SoftBank's 5.375-billion-dollar acquisition of ABB's robotics unit in China — the division's biggest market and its global manufacturing hub — reportedly over concerns that data from Chinese factory robots could flow abroad, including into models trained by OpenAI, in which SoftBank is an investor.
Anthropic's updated usage policy, in force from November 12, refuses Claude to anyone in mainland China, any company registered there, and any company controlled by mainland Chinese owners even if it operates abroad — a cutoff that reached paying developers the same week the company launched the roadshow for one of the biggest IPOs on record.
Two acceptance moments at the Golden Rooster Awards — a motionless room for a beloved screenplay, a standing ovation for a 6.7-rated film's director — have become the ceremony's real story, and the industry's answer has only sharpened the argument.
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