Krypton Evening News | Apple Acquires AI Startup; President of Novo Nordisk China to Leave; SpaceX Launches Space Situational Awareness System Stargaze
Large Companies:
36Kr learned that Datang Power Generation released its 2025 performance forecast. The report shows that it is estimated that the net profit attributable to the owners of the parent company in 2025 will be approximately 6.8 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) to 7.8 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of about 51% to 73%. It is estimated that the net profit attributable to the owners of the parent company after deducting non - recurring profit and loss items in 2025 will be approximately 7.2 billion yuan to 8.2 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of about 60% to 82%.
36Kr learned that Qiaqia Foods released its 2025 performance forecast. The report shows that it is estimated that the net profit attributable to the parent company in 2025 will be 300 million yuan - 320 million yuan, a year - on - year decline of 62.33% - 64.68%. The company said that the main reason for the decline in the company's net profit in 2025 compared with the same period of the previous year is that the raw material procurement price has increased significantly, resulting in a significant decline in the gross profit margin.
36Kr learned that New Hope released its 2025 performance forecast. The report shows that it is estimated that the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in 2025 will be - 1.8 billion yuan to - 1.5 billion yuan. The same period of the previous year was a profit of 474 million yuan, turning from profit to loss year - on - year. During the reporting period, the decline in the price of live pigs was greater than the decline in the breeding cost, resulting in a year - on - year decline in the profit of pig breeding; at the same time, the company orderly eliminated inefficient breeding pigs and assets; the feed business achieved simultaneous growth in volume and profit.
Starbucks plans to add more than 2,000 new stores globally in fiscal year 2028
Starbucks issued a statement on January 29th local time, stating that the goal is to add more than 2,000 new self - operated and franchised stores globally in fiscal year 2028, including about 400 self - operated stores in the United States; the combined net revenue will grow by 5% or more, and the same - store sales globally and in the United States will grow by at least 3%. (Cailian Press)
36Kr learned that Great Wall Motor released its 2025 performance report. The report shows that during the period, the total operating revenue reached 222.79 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 10.19%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 9.912 billion yuan, a year - on - year decline of 21.71%; the basic earnings per share was 1.16 yuan. The company said that during the reporting period, the company achieved year - on - year growth in sales volume and operating revenue. At the same time, it accelerated the construction of a new channel model directly connected to users, and increased the publicity of new models and new technologies and brand promotion. The increase in investment led to a decline in net profit.
Pang Tianyu, former senior research scientist at Singapore's Sea AI Lab, is about to join Tencent
36Kr learned that according to relevant sources, Pang Tianyu, former senior research scientist at Singapore's Sea AI Lab and a direct - admitted doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 2017, is about to join Tencent and join the Exploration Center of Tencent's Hunyuan Multi - modality Department, responsible for exploring cutting - edge algorithms in reinforcement learning.
36Kr exclusively learned that recently, Kimi said in a communication with investors that the company's overseas revenue has exceeded domestic revenue. After the release of the new model K2.5, the number of global paying users has increased fourfold. Following the release of the previous - generation model K2, K2.5 has continued to trigger an overseas craze. On Openrouter, K2.5 has ranked third, only after Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3 Flash.
36Kr learned that Deckers Brands announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. The financial report shows that the revenue in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 was $1.96 billion, a 7% increase. The diluted earnings per share was $3.33, a 11% increase. Among them, the global net sales of the HOKA brand increased by 18.5% year - on - year, reaching $628.9 million.
Investment and Financing:
36Kr learned that Fengwu Technology and Zhongqing Robot officially announced a strategic cooperation and established a joint venture. It is understood that after the joint venture, the two parties will embed Fengwu Technology's algorithms and "Property Brain" capabilities into Zhongqing Robot, rely on the data of the managed scenarios to iterate the robot's decision - making and response capabilities, and build a collaborative operation model of "human + robot". Subsequently, the mature model will be extended from the property scenario to fields such as home services and elderly care, creating a full - chain intelligent service system covering "community - home - elderly care", and the plan is to promote the solution to the domestic and overseas markets such as North America and the Middle East.
Apple acquires an artificial intelligence startup
Apple has acquired Q.ai, an artificial intelligence startup focused on "silent" communication technology. This startup, headquartered in Israel, was founded in 2022, and its related plans have been highly confidential. A patent publicly disclosed by the company last year described a technology for interpreting non - verbal communication by recognizing human facial movements. (Sina Finance)
New Products:
36Kr learned that recently, Cosmo, a Silicon Valley AI education technology brand, announced that it has officially passed the full - fledged school - level accreditation (Accredited) of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), becoming the world's first AI education institution to pass this level of accreditation. It is understood that public information shows that Shuai Ke, the co - founder of Yuanfudao, resigned in 2024 to found Algorithm of Learning Inc. and completed early - stage financing. Cosmo is one of the core businesses of the company, and it has mainly targeted the markets in the United States and Canada.
SpaceX released the space situational awareness system Stargaze
SpaceX has developed a new space situational awareness (SSA) system called Stargaze, which significantly improves the safety and sustainability of low - Earth - orbit (LEO) satellite operations. The screened data will be provided free of charge to a larger group of satellite operators in the next few weeks. (Cailian Press)
The pilot verification platform for humanoid robots in Beijing was officially launched
36Kr learned that on January 29th, the pilot verification platform of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center was officially launched, and the 1,000th customer - customized prototype was rolled off the production line on - site.
36Kr learned that on January 30th, according to an informed source, the "Yuanbao Club" has entered the countdown to the public beta. New functions such as "listening to music together" and "watching videos together" have been added. It is suspected that the content libraries of QQ Music and Tencent Video have been integrated, supporting free access to member - only content. At present, the official has not announced the specific public beta launch date.
Elon Musk is reported to be planning to promote space computing power
American entrepreneur Elon Musk is considering integrating his assets to promote the layout of space computing power. The report said that Musk's vision of deploying an artificial intelligence data center in space may be realized through the above - mentioned different paths. If engineering technology allows, one direction is that SpaceX's in - orbit data center will provide huge computing power for xAI. Another direction is that Tesla's ability to manufacture energy storage systems will help SpaceX operate these data centers in space using solar energy. An informed source said that Musk has not made a final decision, the details may change, and the relevant companies may remain independent. (Xinhua News Agency)
Today's Views:
JPMorgan: The price of gold is expected to reach $8,000 - $8,500 in the next few years
Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, a global market strategist at JPMorgan, predicted in his latest report that the price of gold is expected to reach $8,000 - $8,500 in the next few years. One of the reasons is that retail investors are increasingly relying on gold rather than fixed - income products to hedge against the risk of a decline in the US stock market. However, Panigirtzoglou warned that commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and momentum traders currently have extremely overbought positions in silver and gold, which means that there is a risk of profit - taking or mean reversion in gold and silver in the short term. (Cailian Press)
The president of Novo Nordisk China will leave
Novo Nordisk China announced that Zhou Xiaping, its global senior vice - president and president of Greater China, will leave. Her last working day will be March 31, 2026. At the same time, Cai Yan was appointed as the new senior vice - president and president of Greater China, effective March 31, 2026. (Jiemian)
Other Noteworthy News:
36Kr learned that the statistical data of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange shows that in December 2025, the total turnover of China's foreign exchange market (excluding the foreign currency pair market, the same below) was 28.17 trillion yuan (equivalent to $399 billion). Among them, the turnover of the bank - to - customer market was 4.78 trillion yuan (equivalent to $68 billion), and the turnover of the inter - bank market was 23.39 trillion yuan (equivalent to $331 billion); the cumulative turnover of the spot market was 10.44 trillion yuan (equivalent to $148 billion), and the cumulative turnover of the derivatives market was 17.73 trillion yuan (equivalent to $251 billion). From January to December 2025, the cumulative turnover of China's foreign exchange market reached 304.57 trillion yuan (equivalent to $4.264 trillion).
Hong Kong's GDP increased by 3.5% in real terms in 2025
The Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government released the preliminary estimates of the gross domestic product for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2025 today (January 30th). According to the preliminary estimates, the GDP in the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 3.8% in real terms compared with the same period of the previous year, while the increase in the third quarter was 3.7%. Compared with 2024, the GDP in 2025 increased by 3.5% in real terms. (Voice of the Greater Bay Area)