Today’s Highlights (2025-07-14):
Broadcasting Authority: Prevent Over-Entertainment and Anti-Intellectual Trends in Short Dramas
Phone card suspended after slow recharge
Elon Musk Denies xAI is Raising Funds at a $200 Billion Valuation
GlobalFoundries Responds to MIPS Acquisition
He Xiaopeng Responds to 60-Day Payment Commitment
Google’s Android Development Plan: Integrating ChromeOS and Deeply Integrating Gemini AI
Altman Announces Delay of OpenAI’s First Open Source Weight AI Model
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion in xAI
Broadcasting Authority: Prevent Over-Entertainment and Anti-Intellectual Trends in Short Dramas
Recently, news from the “Broadcasting Industry” public account of the China News Publishing Media Group revealed that the National Radio and Television Administration’s Network Audio-Visual Program Management Department issued a management notice, emphasizing the need to firmly prevent extreme “anti-intellectual”, “ridiculous”, and “absurd” character and plot tendencies in short dramas.
The Broadcasting Authority pointed out that in recent years, the creation of short dramas has shown a good creative trend, with both horizontal and vertical short dramas demonstrating positive energy expressions and styles that are uplifting, good, and beautiful. This is not unrelated to the series of measures taken by the Broadcasting Authority to promote quality creation.
The management notice also pointed out that a few vertical short drama production organizations and broadcasting platforms have resorted to bizarre and risky tactics to create so-called “hit shows”, leading to signs of excessive entertainment. Some short dramas even use artistic imagination as a pretext to recklessly weave and arbitrarily deconstruct reality and logic, even trivializing, infantilizing, and anti-intellectualizing, which affects the good image established by the short drama industry.
The management notice requires that to maintain a good ecology for short dramas and promote the stable and long-term development of the industry, broadcasting management departments at all levels must implement supervisory responsibilities, and market entities in the short drama industry must fulfill their responsibilities for broadcasting, production, and promotion, firmly uphold the bottom line of artistic creation, and resolutely prevent extreme “anti-intellectual”, “ridiculous”, and “absurd” character and plot tendencies.
Since my brain broke, I have come to like watching this
Phone Card Suspended After Slow Recharge
On July 13, news reported that “slow recharge for phone bills, 95% off, fastest 24 hours to arrive”, “slow recharge for phone bills, recharge 200 yuan to receive 250 yuan, arrives within three days”. The WeChat 110 official account published an article on July 11, reminding users to be wary of new fraud methods.
Criminals post advertisements for “low-cost phone bills” and “low-cost slow recharge” on online platforms, using high discount rates as bait to attract victims to place orders for recharges.
After receiving user recharge orders, the merchants will pass the orders to higher-level agents and deduct the corresponding commission from the user’s payment. This process continues through several agents until the funds reach the fraud group’s system, which then uses the stolen funds to recharge the users, completing the entire money laundering process.
It is important to note that users participating in slow recharge may have their phone cards suspended due to involvement in the money laundering activities of criminals; if users continue to participate in such slow recharges knowing they are a money laundering method, they may be held legally responsible for constituting “aiding and abetting” crimes.
Finally, it has been regulated
Elon Musk Denies xAI is Raising Funds at a $200 Billion Valuation
On July 13, news reported that Bloomberg cited insiders saying that Elon Musk’s company xAI is negotiating a new round of financing, with a valuation of up to $200 billion.
It is said that the company has recently completed $10 billion in financing (with debt and equity each accounting for half) and is currently advancing an additional $10 billion financing plan. If the $200 billion valuation is achieved, the new entity formed by the merger of X and xAI will become one of the highest-valued private companies in the world.
However, Musk posted on X stating that “xAI is not currently seeking financing; we have sufficient funds.” The xAI representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Bloomberg previously reported that if this round of financing is successful, xAI will receive a total of $20 billion in new funding support, which is a target discussed internally by the company. Insiders indicated that xAI specifically waited until the new model Grok 4 was released before advancing this financing.
Musk: I don’t lack money at all
GlobalFoundries Responds to MIPS Acquisition
On July 13, news reported that technology media Tom’s Hardware published a blog stating that GlobalFoundries responded that the company has no intention of becoming an integrated device manufacturer, but will provide ready-made computing IP to accelerate its customers’ product launch speed.
Previous reports indicated that GlobalFoundries had reached a final agreement to acquire MIPS, which was interpreted by the outside world as GlobalFoundries possibly adjusting its strategy to start producing processors itself, thus competing with some customers. GlobalFoundries’ communications director Erica McGill stated: “The acquisition of MIPS will enhance GlobalFoundries’ capabilities to better provide customers with more complete and differentiated products.”
This move will make GlobalFoundries a more strategic partner, providing not only manufacturing services but also foundational computing technologies to help customers build smarter, faster, and more efficient products.
A spokesperson for GlobalFoundries stated: “We remain a pure foundry focused on helping customers build world-class products on our platform. This acquisition expands our capabilities to better support non-fabless customers, especially those developing silicon for the first time or seeking vertical integration.”
MIPS is done for, bought as a family heirloom?
He Xiaopeng Responds to 60-Day Payment Commitment
Recently, news reported that XPeng Motors announced it would fulfill its 60-day payment commitment, with multiple suppliers receiving signed supplementary agreement emails.
XPeng Motors Chairman He Xiaopeng recently posted: “After nearly a month of internal discussions, XPeng has established the relevant steps for adjusting and implementing the payment period, and has recently begun to push forward. It is not easy; everyone has their difficulties, but the future is definitely bright! We hope to stabilize and change step by step, and work with multiple partners to push the industry forward and develop healthily with our modest efforts.”
The emails received by suppliers indicate that XPeng Motors announced it would unify the original payment cycle to within 60 days. This is the first written notification sent to suppliers regarding the “60-day payment commitment” in the automotive industry.
It would be great if payments were made on time
Google’s Android Development Plan: Integrating ChromeOS and Deeply Integrating Gemini AI
On July 13, news reported that in an interview with technology media TechRadar, the head of the Android ecosystem and Google President Sameer Samat discussed the future development direction of the Android system. Samat stated that the Android system has always been the core of Google’s future development, with the short-term focus on advancing the Material 3 Expressive design language and integrating ChromeOS resources.
In advancing the Material 3 Expressive design language, Google stated that the goal of the Android system is to provide users with a “modern and pleasant” operating system without disrupting user habits.
Regarding the integration of ChromeOS resources, Samat stated that they will utilize more modern “industry standards” to transfer data between the two platforms, merging ChromeOS and the Android system into a unified platform, and focusing on how users use laptops.
During the discussion, Samat also mentioned another key area of the Android system: Gemini. He stated, “Gemini is the best assistant. Press the side button on any flagship Android phone, and it will pop up Gemini in your environment.”
More big promises
Altman Announces Delay of OpenAI’s First Open Source Weight AI Model
On July 13, news reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform, stating that to further test the model’s safety, the release of its first open-source AI model will be delayed.
OpenAI’s first open-source AI model was previously delayed once, originally scheduled for release next week, but Altman stated that for further safety testing, they chose to delay it again, without announcing a new release date.
As expected
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion in xAI
On July 13, news reported that The Wall Street Journal recently stated that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in another company, xAI, which is almost half of the latter’s recent equity financing. It is said that SpaceX and xAI may also sign more agreements.
Bloomberg also reported that xAI is negotiating a new round of financing, with a valuation of up to $200 billion.
It is said that the company has recently completed $10 billion in financing (with debt and equity each accounting for half) and is currently advancing an additional $10 billion financing plan. If the $200 billion valuation is achieved, the new entity formed by the merger of X and xAI will become one of the highest-valued private companies in the world.
Musk: Left hand to right hand, the money is still mine
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