Krypton Evening News | Xinjiang's new energy power transmission exceeds 300 billion kWh; Samsung Electronics may face a large-scale strike, potentially affecting the global semiconductor supply chain; Social platform X adjusts age limits for Indonesian users to comply with new regulations
Large Companies:
According to Yonhap News Agency on the 18th, the voting results of over 66,000 members of the Samsung Electronics labor union in South Korea showed that 93.1% of the union members voted in favor of a strike. Without significant changes, Samsung Electronics union members will go on a full - scale strike from May 21 to June 7. As reported by Yonhap News Agency, as a major global memory chip manufacturer, if a strike occurs at Samsung Electronics, it may further exacerbate the tightening global semiconductor supply situation caused by the continuous heating up of global artificial intelligence data center construction. The impact may spread to multiple industries such as automobiles, computers, and smartphones.
Tencent: Q4 revenue reached 194.37 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 13%
36Kr learned that Tencent released its financial reports for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2025. The reports showed that Tencent's Q4 revenue was 194.37 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 13%; Non - IFRS operating profit was 69.52 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 17%. The annual revenue was 751.77 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 14%; Non - IFRS operating profit increased by 18% year - on - year. In terms of core businesses, the revenue from value - added services in Q4 was 89.92 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 14%, among which the revenue from the gaming business increased by 21% year - on - year; the revenue from marketing services was 41.12 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 17%; the revenue from financial technology and enterprise services was 60.82 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 8%. Driven by the growth of AI demand, product innovation, and supply chain optimization, Tencent Cloud achieved large - scale profitability in 2025.
ByteDance's security team recently released the "OpenClaw Security Specifications and Usage Guidelines" internally and simultaneously launched ByteClaw for ByteDance employees. This service is built on the enterprise version of ArkClaw of Volcengine and can achieve unified identity authentication, access control, and permission management under the company's account system, supporting employees to securely access the company's internal resources.
36Kr learned that recently, Baidu appointed He Jingzhou from the former large - model algorithm department to rotate from the Basic Model R & D Department (BMU) to the Mobile Ecosystem Business Group (MEG) to serve as the person - in - charge of Baidu APP R & D Center, reporting to Luo Rong. The former person - in - charge, Zhao Shiqi, left the company for personal reasons. According to informed sources, He Jingzhou is a technical and management talent cultivated by Baidu himself, with rich experience in the field of large - model algorithms. This rotation will further promote the integration of large - model and search - recommendation business, strengthen the application of cutting - edge technologies such as large - models in core scenarios such as search and recommendation, promote the improvement of both the speed and quality of product iteration, help products better face technological generational changes, and further enhance the user experience.
Social platform X adjusts the age limit for Indonesian users to comply with new regulations
On March 18, the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology issued a statement saying that social platform X has adjusted the minimum age limit for Indonesian users to 16 years old to comply with new regulations. The statement said that X will start identifying and deactivating non - compliant accounts on March 27. According to X's terms of service, the minimum age requirement for its global users is 13 years old.
New Products:
36Kr learned that on March 18, Tencent revealed at a media conference after the release of its financial reports that HY 3.0 is undergoing internal business testing and is planned to be launched externally in April. It is understood that this is a major upgrade of the Hunyuan model. Compared with the HY2.0 version, the effect has improved significantly, and the reasoning and agent capabilities have been significantly enhanced. Since the second half of 2025, Tencent Hunyuan has reorganized its teams and processes, focusing on improving data quality and rebuilding the infrastructure for pre - training and reinforcement learning, which is conducive to accelerating the model iteration speed and creating a base model with a higher intelligence level.
MiniMax releases the new - generation large - model M2.7
36Kr learned that on March 18, MiniMax released the new - generation Agent flagship large - model M2.7, which for the first time demonstrated the path of "model self - evolution". The model constructs an Agent Harness system and deeply participates in its own training and optimization processes. In some R & D scenarios, it can undertake 30% - 50% of the workload and achieve an approximately 30% improvement in performance on the internal evaluation set.
Microsoft considering legal action over Amazon and OpenAI's $50 billion cloud deal
On March 18, it was reported that Microsoft is considering taking legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over their $50 billion deal, which may violate the exclusive cloud cooperation agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI. The report said that the core of the dispute lies in whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) can provide OpenAI's artificial intelligence platform Frontier without violating a long - term agreement. The agreement requires that all access to the startup's models must be through Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
Investment and Financing:
"Sweet Potato Robotics" completes a $120 million Series B1 financing
36Kr learned that "Sweet Potato Robotics" completed a $120 million Series B1 financing, less than a year after its $100 million Series A financing in May 2025. The old shareholder, Huangpu River Capital, has continuously invested heavily in this robot underlying platform for multiple rounds and, together with Hillhouse Ventures and GGV Capital, over - subscribed in this round of financing. The new investors include industrial capitals such as Didi, Meituan Longzhu, and BAIC Capital. So far, the total financing of Sweet Potato Robotics in two rounds has reached $220 million, and this round of financing will be mainly used for technology R & D and market expansion.
Today's Views:
Recently, there were reports that Country Garden is "recalling former employees on a large scale". In response, Country Garden clarified that there is no special plan for "large - scale recall of former employees". Re - employment is only one of the regular channels to supplement individual key positions and is only carried out for a small number of specific position requirements.
Other Noteworthy News:
36Kr learned that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Catalogue of New - energy Vehicle Models Exempted from Vehicle Purchase Tax" (28th batch), which includes multiple models such as Xiaomi YU7, XPeng GX, and Wenjie M6EV.
The external power transmission of Xinjiang's new - energy sources exceeds 300 billion kWh
According to the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., as of March 18, 2026, the cumulative external power transmission of Xinjiang's new - energy sources reached 304.36 billion kWh, exceeding the 300 - billion - kWh mark and accounting for about 30% of the total external power transmission. Xinjiang is an important power - sending end for the national "West - to - East Power Transmission" and "Green Power Transmission" projects. As of the end of 2025, Xinjiang had built 6 ten - million - kilowatt - level new - energy bases, with a new - energy installed capacity of 169 million kilowatts, accounting for 64% of Xinjiang's total installed capacity.