At 9 o'clock, here are the latest news: Elon Musk spent over 400 billion to acquire a post-2000 company; The resale price of World Cup final tickets is nearly $2.3 million.
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Today's Hot News Overview
The railway department will implement ticket - purchase discounts for elderly passengers.
Hello was fined 100,000 yuan again for failing to file for record, put vehicles into operation, or recycle vehicles as required.
Netizens claim to have checked the results of the public institution recruitment exam in advance using Doubao, and the official responded.
Nike will cut 1,400 corporate positions, mainly in the technology department.
Two new lunar minerals have been discovered in China, and new breakthroughs have been made in the research of samples from Chang'e - 5.
TOP3 Big News
Elon Musk Spends Over 400 Billion Yuan to Acquire a Post - 2000s Company, and SpaceX Aims to Fill the AI Programming Gap with Cursor
Recently, SpaceX reached an acquisition agreement with Cursor, an AI programming startup: SpaceX has the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion (equivalent to over 400 billion yuan). Cursor was founded four years ago by four "post - 2000s" students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its valuation soared from $2.5 billion at the beginning of 2024 to $29.3 billion by the end of 2025, and each of the four founders holds shares worth at least $1.3 billion.
Cursor has over one million paying users, and more than half of the Fortune 500 companies use its products. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, once listed it as one of the "six core companies driving the digital labor revolution of human - machine collaboration." However, Cursor relies on OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude and does not have its own underlying large - scale model. Elon Musk publicly admitted that xAI is "lagging behind" in programming and is being rebuilt. SpaceX's xAI has powerful computing power but lacks application products, while Cursor has products but lacks an independent large - scale model. The two sides complement each other: Cursor will be connected to SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer, and SpaceX will fill the gap in AI programming. Analysts believe that this move aims to build a closed - loop of "computing power + model + tools," and the AI competition is extending from the underlying computing power to the application layer. (21st Century Business Herald)
World Cup final tickets resold for nearly $2.3 million
Recently, four tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico) final appeared on FIFA's official ticket resale platform, with each ticket priced at nearly $2.3 million. It is understood that these four tickets are for the World Cup final to be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19. Each ticket is priced at $2,299,998.85, and the seats are in the lower tier of Section 124, behind the goal, in Row 45, with seat numbers from 33 to 36. On that day, the lowest price for a final ticket on the platform was $10,923.85. According to the US side, FIFA does not control the resale prices of tickets on the secondary market, but it charges a 15% handling fee from both the buyer and the seller of each ticket. (CCTV News)
Big companies/Big events
The railway department will implement ticket purchase discounts for elderly passengers
According to a message from the official WeChat account of China Railway on the 24th, the railway authorities will implement ticket purchase discounts for elderly passengers. Chinese citizens aged 60 and above who purchase tickets for some EMU trains with departure times between May 30th and June 30th during non - holiday mid - week periods (from 12:00 on Mondays to 12:00 on Fridays) can enjoy a 10% discount on the ticket price, and a "double - discount" policy will be implemented. China Railway 12306 will mark the character "Respect" after the relevant discounted train services. Chinese citizens aged 60 and above who hold certificates for disabled military personnel, disabled police officers, or disabled personnel of the national comprehensive fire and rescue team can enjoy an additional 10% discount on top of the original preferential ticket price. Elderly passengers can also enjoy triple points rewards as ordinary frequent - traveler members. The points can be used to exchange for train tickets or upgrade seat classes. (China News Service)
The National Healthcare Security Administration Conducts Comprehensive Inspections: Pharmacies in Hunan and Henan Exposed for Swapping Drugs
According to information obtained by reporters from the National Healthcare Security Administration, in response to the situation where pharmacies in Hunan, Henan and other places swapped cosmetics, health products and daily necessities for drugs and settled the bills with medical insurance cards, the National Healthcare Security Administration sent inspection teams to the two provinces on April 22 for investigation and verification. The teams have successively entered relevant pharmacies in Huaihua, Hengyang, Zhuzhou and Shaoyang in Hunan Province, as well as Zhengzhou in Henan Province for inspections. As of now, all the involved institutions have been inspected. (China News Service)
Hello Bike Fined Another 100,000 Yuan for Failing to Register, Deploy, Operate or Recycle Bikes as Required
On April 24, a reporter from The Paper noticed that the official website of the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission showed that Shanghai Hello Bike Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hello Bike") was fined 100,000 yuan by the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission for "failing to register, deploy, operate or recycle Internet rental bicycles as required" by an Internet rental bicycle operating enterprise. The penalty date was shown as April 22. In January this year, Hello Bike was also fined 100,000 yuan for the same issue. (The Paper)
Netizens claim to have checked the results of the public institution recruitment exam in advance with Doubao, and the official responds
On the evening of April 23, some netizens posted a message saying, "Doubao has checked the results of the 2026 Shandong public institution recruitment exam" and attached a transcript, but the score part was blacked out. "However, it seems that only those in Jinnan Huaiyin District can check. We don't know if it's true. What on earth is going on?" On April 24, a reporter from Yangtze Evening News contacted the netizen and learned that the content of the post came from other netizens, but the original poster has now deleted the post. Hao Yajie, the vice president of Zhiling Dynamics (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., analyzed and told the reporter from Yangtze Evening News that it should be that the test port was opened and the information was quickly captured by AI. It's possible that the test link has a certain pattern, for example, ending with /kscj2025. Doubao collected the links from previous years and inferred this year's result link according to the pattern of previous - year links, which may be related to the hallucination and associative ability of the large - model. (Yangtze Evening News)
Microsoft Reportedly Offers Voluntary Retirement Program to 7% of U.S. Employees
On April 23, it was reported that Microsoft's Chief People Officer, Amy Coleman, introduced a voluntary retirement program in a memo to employees. This move aims to provide an opportunity for thousands of long - serving U.S. employees to leave the company, accompanied by financial compensation and extended healthcare benefits. The program is open to all U.S. employees at level 67 (equivalent to the senior director level) and below, except for those participating in the sales incentive program. Applicants must have a combined total of age and years of service of 70 or more. It is estimated that approximately 7% (about 8,750 people) of Microsoft's 125,000 employees in the United States are eligible for this program. (Jiemian News)
Norway to Ban Children Under 16 from Using Social Media
It was learned on April 24 local time that the Norwegian government will ban children from using social media and set the age limit at 16. The relevant bill will be reviewed within this year. If it is approved by the Norwegian Parliament, it may come into effect next year. (CCTV News)
Intel CEO: The overall potential market size of the semiconductor industry is approaching $1 trillion
After the U.S. Eastern time on Thursday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an earnings conference call that in an era when the semiconductor industry is facing unprecedented opportunities, Intel processors are the core assets for enterprises to achieve success and thrive. Driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence demand, the overall potential market size of the semiconductor industry is approaching $1 trillion. Intel fully seizes this demand opportunity with its three strategic core assets: the x86 central processor product line, advanced packaging technology, and a large manufacturing network. Artificial intelligence is moving into the real world, extending to distributed inference and reinforcement learning workloads, such as agents, physical artificial intelligence, robots, and edge artificial intelligence. (Caixin)
Nike to Cut 1,400 Corporate Jobs, Mostly in Technology
Nike will lay off 1,400 employees, accounting for less than 2% of its total workforce. The sports goods company is striving to get its turnaround plan back on track. The company said on Thursday that the layoffs will mainly affect technology positions in Nike's global operations team. Chief Operating Officer Venkatesh Alagirisamy said in a letter to employees that Nike is streamlining its organizational structure and adopting more advanced automation technologies. (Sina Finance)
SpaceX's Prospectus Reveals Plan to Make Its Own Chips
According to Kuaikeji, the S-1 prospectus secretly submitted by SpaceX has recently been disclosed. In this IPO document with a valuation of up to $1.75 trillion, "manufacturing its own GPUs" is clearly listed as one of the reasons for future huge capital expenditures. The document points out that SpaceX currently lacks long - term supply contracts with most chip suppliers. To reduce supply chain risks, the company has decided to internalize the production of some key chips. It is worth noting that SpaceX used the term "GPU" in the prospectus instead of AI - specific accelerators (ASICs). Currently, major technology companies have different names for AI accelerators: NVIDIA and AMD call them GPUs, Google calls them TPUs, and Microsoft calls them Maia accelerators. This naming choice has sparked extensive discussions in the industry. Whether it is a naming strategy or a real signal of the technical route remains to be further verified. (Kuaikeji)
Japan to Release Second Batch of Oil Reserves Starting from May 1st
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan said that it will start the second round of releasing crude oil from the national reserves on May 1st. Approximately 5.8 million kiloliters of oil, worth about 540 billion yen, will be released this time. It will be delivered to refineries including Eneos and Idemitsu Kosan. (Sina Finance)
China Discovers Two New Lunar Minerals Again, Achieving New Breakthroughs in Research on Chang'e 5 Samples
On April 24, the China National Space Administration released the latest research results on the Chang'e 5 lunar samples: Chinese researchers have discovered two new minerals from the lunar samples - Magnesium chang'eite and Cerium chang'eite. Among them, Magnesium chang'eite is mainly found in the drilled lunar basalt debris. It appears as columnar crystals with a particle size of only 2 to 30 microns, about one-thirtieth to one-third of the diameter of a human hair. Experts introduced that Magnesium chang'eite belongs to the same calcium rare-earth phosphate minerals as the previously discovered Chang'eite, but Magnesium chang'eite is richer in magnesium and rare-earth elements. The other new mineral is named Cerium chang'eite, which has a higher content of the light rare-earth element cerium. Hou Zengqian, the chief scientist of China's planetary exploration project and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that Cerium chang'eite records the products of different stages of lunar evolution, which helps to better understand the formation and evolution history of the moon.
So far, China has discovered three new minerals from the Chang'e 5 lunar samples, enriching the lunar mineral species library, providing brand - new research objects for lunar research and planetary mineralogy, and promoting China's planetary mineralogy research to a deeper level. (CCTV News)
Warner Bros. to Be Sold to Paramount for $110 Billion; Combined Company to Have a Film Library of Over 15,000 Titles
On April 23 local time, Warner Bros. Discovery announced on its official website that the company's shareholders voted to approve the merger agreement with Paramount Skydance Media ("Paramount") that day. This means a crucial step has been taken in this large - scale merger worth tens of billions of dollars.
This deal between Warner Bros. and Paramount is one of the largest media industry restructurings in Hollywood and may create the world's largest film studio. The two companies stated in a joint statement that the combined company will have a film library of over 15,000 titles, as well as popular film and TV IPs such as Game of Thrones, Mission: Impossible, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and The Matrix. (Jiemian News)
The Shanghai Stock Exchange revised and issued the "Rules for Trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange", which will be officially implemented on July 6.
36Kr learned that with the approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Shanghai Stock Exchange recently revised and issued the "Rules for Trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Revised in 2026)". The purpose of this revision is to optimize the securities trading system, promote the stable operation of the market, improve the market pricing efficiency and liquidity, and better meet the trading needs of investors. The main revisions to the "Trading Rules" include: First, the scope of securities applicable to the post - market fixed - price trading method has been expanded from science and technology innovation board stocks to all A - shares and exchange - traded open - end funds. Second, the trading method during the closing stage of funds has been adjusted from continuous bidding to closing call auction, and the closing price is generated through call auction. Third, the limit on the daily price increase or decrease of risk - warning stocks on the main board has been adjusted from 5% to 10%. In addition, adaptive revisions have been made according to rule changes and business needs, including optimizing relevant regulations on disciplinary actions and improving the expressions of some rules. The "Trading Rules" will be officially implemented on July 6, 2026, leaving a transition period for market entities to make adaptive adjustments and technical preparations.
Going Public
BinHua Co., Ltd.
36Kr learned that the International Cooperation Department of the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued a record-filing notice for the overseas issuance and listing of BinHua Group Co., Ltd. The company plans to issue no more than 404,944,000 overseas-listed common shares and list them on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Tianchen Biotech
36Kr learned that the International Cooperation Department of the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued a notice on the record-filing for the overseas issuance and listing of Tianchen Biomedical (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and the "full circulation" of its unlisted domestic shares. The company plans to issue no more than 18,341,800 overseas-listed common shares and list them on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. 31 shareholders of the company plan to convert a total of 58,737,118 unlisted domestic shares they hold into overseas-listed shares and have them listed and traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The Cutting-Edge of AI
GPT-5.5 Released
On Thursday, Eastern Time, OpenAI announced its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5. The company stated that this model performs better in programming, using computers, and conducting more in - depth research. This release comes less than two months after OpenAI's previous release of GPT 5.4, indicating that the development speed in the field of artificial intelligence has reached an unprecedented level. OpenAI officially said, "GPT-5.5 is our smartest and most intuitive model to date, and it's the next step in a new way of getting work done on the computer." "GPT-5.5 can understand your intentions more quickly and take on more tasks. It excels at writing and debugging code, online searching, analyzing data, creating documents and spreadsheets, operating software, and flexibly switching between different tools until the task is completed. You don't need to meticulously manage every step. Just hand over complex and multi - part tasks to GPT-5.5 and trust it to plan on its own, use tools, check work, handle various uncertainties, and keep moving forward."
DeepSeek V4 Released, Hygon DCU Completes Day0 Adaptation
36Kr learned that on April 24th, DeepSeek released and open-sourced DeepSeek V4. Hygon DCU simultaneously completed the Day0 adaptation for DeepSeek V4, providing a ready-to-use deployment solution for global developers and enterprise customers through an efficient closed-loop of "model release - chip adaptation - industrial implementation".
Financial Reports of Large Companies
Chifeng Gold: Net profit in the first quarter reached 988 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 104%
36Kr learned that Chifeng Gold announced that in the first quarter of 2026, it achieved an operating income of 3.554 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 47.65%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 988 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 104.43%. The change in performance is mainly due to the company's continuous optimization of production organization and operation management, and it has fully benefited from the relatively large year-on-year increase in the gold price.
Dong'e Ejiao: Net profit in the first quarter was 455 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.14%
36Kr learned that Dong'e Ejiao announced that in the first quarter of 2026, it achieved an operating income of 1.814 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.52%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 455 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.14%.
Kia's Q1 sales reached 29.5 trillion won, exceeding market expectations
On April 24th, Kia released its Q1 performance report: The operating profit in the first quarter was 221 billion won, with an estimate of 230 billion won; the net profit was 183 billion won, with an estimate of 193 billion won; the sales volume was 2.95 trillion won, with an estimate of 2.933 trillion won. (Jiemian News)
Investment and Financing
Artificial intelligence startup Cognition AI is in financing negotiations with a valuation of $25 billion
On April 24, it was reported that people familiar with the matter revealed that artificial intelligence startup Cognition AI is in preliminary negotiations for a new round of financing, which will value the company at $25 billion. The report said that the negotiations are still ongoing and the specific terms may change. (Jiemian News)
VitaFlow recently completed a Pre-Seed round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan
36Kr learned that VitaFlow recently completed a Pre-Seed round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan, led by Jinqiu Fund and followed by Baidu Ventures. The founder was once one of the early product executives at ByteDance and also served as the C-end product partner at Jieyue Xingchen.
AI Map
The hope of the whole village, DeepSeek, has finally been updated. The V4 dual versions have returned to the first echelon of open source.
A Small Survey on "Current Rest Situation"
The May Day holiday is coming soon. While celebrating Labor Day, don't forget to have a good rest!
The ultimate aspiration of contemporary office workers has never been endless involution, but the freedom to rest at will. Working hard is just to heal oneself. Some people prefer short periods of idleness to quickly recharge their energy, while others like to completely relax and recuperate slowly.
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