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Starbucks China responded to the new Chief Growth Officer: promoting the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. Recently, some media reported that the management of Starbucks China continued to adjust and hired CGO to manage the growth from digital marketing companies. In response to the above information, Sina Technology verified Starbucks, and the official response said: China is Starbucks' largest international market and an important engine for the company's future growth. In November, Starbucks China established the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) organization and appointed Tony Yang as the company's Chief Growth Officer (CGO). The establishment of CGO organization will continue to strengthen Starbucks' coffee leadership, accelerate the product innovation with coffee as the core, better refresh customers' Starbucks experience at various contacts through integrated marketing strategies, and promote the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. (Sina Technology)Japan Life Insurance announced that it would spend $8.2 billion to acquire the life insurance company Resolution Life. On December 11th, Japan Life Insurance Mutual announced that it would spend about $8.2 billion to acquire the remaining 77% shares of the life insurance company Resolution Life. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. On the same day, Japan Life announced that it would acquire the remaining 20% shares of MLC Life Insurance from National Bank of Australia (NAB) and integrate MLC with Resolution Life.Yongtai Bio-product, a new open-source shareholding company, was recognized by CDE for breakthrough therapy. On December 11th, official website, China National Medical Products Administration Drug Evaluation Center (CDE), recently announced that the anti-CD19 single-chain antibody chimeric antigen receptor T cell injection (CAR-T-19 cell injection for short) developed by Yongtai Bio-B (06978.HK) was successfully included in the list of breakthrough therapy varieties by CDE, and the indication was recurrence under 25 years old/.

Boeing also exposed nearly 1,000 layoffs. According to Xinhua News Agency, citing American media reports, American aircraft manufacturer Boeing will lay off employees again, involving nearly 1,000 people in Washington State and California. This batch of layoffs is part of Boeing's plan to lay off 17,000 people worldwide announced in October.Local regulators have found out the situation of institutions purchasing unlicensed financial information service products. The reporter was informed that some local securities regulatory bureaus are finding out the situation of institutions purchasing unlicensed financial information service products. The regulatory requirements require the securities fund and futures-related operating institutions within their jurisdiction to self-inspect the purchase of foreign financial information service products without the permission of the National Network Information Office. The main contents include a brief description of financial information service products, the contact telephone number and email address of foreign institutions, and so on. According to relevant regulations, the provision of financial information services by foreign institutions in China must be approved. Up to now, a total of 31 foreign institutions and 10 enterprises invested and established by foreign institutions in China have been licensed to provide financial information services. (Cailian)CEO of audi ag: I hope to keep pace with BYD in China. audi ag is in the stage of strategic stability and will enter the growth stage of new energy vehicles from 2026. Audi ag hopes to maintain its leading position in the China market and keep pace with BYD. On December 10th, 2024, Oliver Blume, CEO of German audi ag, made the above remarks in a speech at Tongji University. (Caixin. com)

The Top Ten Trends of AI in 2024 were released, and the Quantum Think Tank released the Top Ten Trends Report of AI in 2024 today, looking forward to the future trends from three dimensions of technology, products and industry, including: large-scale model innovation: accelerated emergence of architecture optimization, and the general trend of convergence and iteration; Scaling Law generalization: reasoning ability becomes a crown jewel, which forces calculation and data change; AGI exploration: video generation ignites the world model, and space intelligence unifies virtual and reality; AI application pattern: The first round of shuffling is over, focusing on five scenes of 20 tracks; AI application competition: multi-field racing operation is greater than technology, and AI assistant strategists must compete; AI application growth: AI+X empowerment products are getting faster and faster, and native AI explosions are hard to find; AI product trends: multi-modal launch, Agent sweeping, highly personalized; AI wisdom changes thousands of industries: the left hand changes productivity, and the right hand reshapes the industry ecology; AI industry penetration rate: the data base determines the initial speed, and the user demand becomes the acceleration; AI Venture Capital: The Matthew effect of investment and financing is obvious, and the frequency of the national team's shots has increased.Well-known American experts said that it was useless for Taiwan Province to buy weapons, and the Taiwan Affairs Office responded. Beijing Daily reporter: Bu Ruizhe, former chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Association in, and many other well-known American experts on the Taiwan Strait said that it was "impossible and useless" for the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to plan to increase military spending and buy American armaments in large quantities, which was regarded as "throwing cold water on the Democratic Progressive Party authorities" and "taking a blow". What is the spokesman's comment on this? Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Democratic Progressive Party Affairs Office, said: authorities are trying to "seek independence by force", squandering the hard-earned money of Taiwan Province people to buy weapons, and paying a high "protection fee" to hand in a "warlords", which is just to quench their thirst by drinking poison, and will only make Taiwan Province soldiers in danger. The deeper the "relying on foreign countries for independence", the more "destroying Taiwan", and ultimately it will only be a moth to the fire and bring about its own destruction.On the 11th, the director of the Crime Investigation Department of Senior Public Officials in South Korea said that if the situation is urgent, he would try to arrest the president urgently.