Breakfast | Tesla, Netflix, Intel, and others release earnings this week, Apple Vision Pro pre-orders are hot
OpenAI is in talks with Middle Eastern investors for financing a new chip project. The starting price for Apple Vision Pro is $3,499, and it costs $799 to replace the glass back cover. The US Congress has banned the Pentagon from purchasing batteries from six Chinese companies, including CATL and BYD. Lei Jun said that the pricing of Xiaomi cars may be a bit expensive. Peace Elite Esports officially announced a partnership with Douyin Games.
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Market: Overnight and this morning
US stocks closed higher on Friday, with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 hitting new all-time highs. Last week, the Dow Jones rose by 0.72%, the Nasdaq rose by 2.26%, and the S&P 500 rose by 1.17%.
This week, companies such as Tesla, Netflix, and Intel will release their earnings reports.
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Apple's pre-sales are hot, starting at $3,499
On January 19th, Apple officially started pre-sales in the United States. Within just 5 minutes of the launch, Apple's website servers were overwhelmed, causing many orders to be unable to be processed. In addition, due to insufficient stock of the first batch of Vision Pro, it was announced that the inventory was sold out after 18 minutes. After 2 hours of pre-orders, the delivery date has been pushed back to March or even April.
Apple announces repair costs for Vision Pro: Replacing the glass cover will cost $799
Currently, the service types only include "glass cover damage" and "other damage". If other components need to be repaired, the cost will soar to $2,399. This is only $1,100 lower than the starting price of Vision Pro. The price for AppleCare+ service for two years is $499.
Media: OpenAI in talks with Middle Eastern investors for financing new chip projects
OpenAI is seeking to meet its growing demand for semiconductors and reduce its reliance on Nvidia. To this end, Altman is negotiating financing with investors such as the richest man in the United Arab Emirates to develop new projects for training and building AI models. In addition, OpenAI is also in talks with TSMC to build a partnership for chip manufacturing.
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Media: Microsoft and OpenAI face antitrust investigations, and the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are not prepared to give up jurisdiction.
Microsoft: The company's business systems were hit by a large-scale hacker attack last Friday.
Media: The US Congress will ban the Pentagon from purchasing batteries from 6 Chinese companies, including CATL and BYD.
BYD enters the Indonesian passenger car market with three pure electric models and plans to open 50 stores in Indonesia.
Lei Jun responds to the price of Xiaomi cars: The pricing may indeed be a bit expensive.
Xpeng's autonomous driving team is in turmoil again, with Wang Tao, the former head of the North American team for visual perception, leaving.
Yu Chengdong, Chairman of Huawei's Automotive Business Unit: Four months after its listing, the number of orders for the Wanjie New M7 has exceeded 130,000 units.
Peace Elite Esports announces cooperation with Douyin Games, the first competition of the year will start on January 25th.
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People's Bank of China: Monetary policy will pay more attention to cross-cycle and countercyclical adjustments
In the next stage, monetary policy will pay more attention to cross-cycle and countercyclical adjustments, balance the relationship between short-term and long-term, stable growth and risk prevention, internal balance and external balance, and create a good monetary and financial environment for stabilizing prices, promoting economic growth, expanding employment, and maintaining balance of international payments. The third meeting of the Sino-US Financial Working Group was held in Beijing on January 18-19.
The two sides had professional, pragmatic, frank, and constructive discussions on issues such as currency and financial stability, financial regulation, financial markets, cross-border payments and data, sustainable finance, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, global financial governance, and other key concerns of both parties.
The seventh meeting of the Sino-US Agricultural Joint Commission was held in Washington, D.C., restarting the Sino-US agricultural cooperation mechanism.
Governor DeSantis of Florida announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and declared his support for Trump's candidacy for President of the United States.