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ByteDance Just Bet $29.6 Billion on One Idea. There’s No Going Back.
Zhang Yiming's No-Return Bet: Feishu Moves Under Doubao On the morning of July 30, 2026, an internal email circulated among about 20,000 ByteDance employees. It had three paragraphs. Feishu's product team would merge into Doubao to form the Doubao product team. Doubao head Zhao Qi would lead it. Feishu CEO Xie Xin would report to Zhao Qi. The same day, Feishu's GTM team, covering marketing, sales, and customer service, was folded into Volcano Engine under Tan Dai. Xie Xin's reporting line went from Liang Rubo plus one to Liang Rubo minus three.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The Perfect AI Essay. The Blank Exam. The Learning That Never Happened.
Two a.m., the student who opened ChatGPT At 2 a.m., the dorm lights were off. A student opened his phone and typed an essay prompt into ChatGPT. Three seconds later, he had a complete answer with citations and clean structure. He copied it, pasted it, fixed the formatting, and submitted it. The next day, he got a high score.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Prosecutor Turned Plaintiff's Lawyer: How Dave Abels Built a Chicago Firm Around One Idea
Rush hour on Lake Shore Drive doesn't leave much room for error, and neither does a rideshare pickup gone wrong on a busy Chicago corner. When one of those moments turns into a crash, the person left dealing with medical bills and a totaled car is usually going up against an insurance company that negotiates claims for a living, with adjusters and lawyers on staff whose entire job is to pay out as little as the law allows. Dave Abels has spent almost three decades on the other side of that fight, and the path he took to get there says a lot about how he approaches a case today.
By Pine Newsabout a month ago in 01
Choosing a Leather Watch Strap: Materials, Fit, and Style
A watch strap is more than a simple component that keeps a timepiece attached to the wrist. It can influence comfort, appearance, durability, and even how a watch feels during everyday use. With many materials, colors, textures, and construction methods available, choosing the right strap often requires more thought than simply matching its color with a watch dial.
By charliesamuelabout a month ago in 01
The AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret, and Your Town Is Paying for It
The Hum Behind the Revolt: How AI Data Centres Ignited a Transatlantic NIMBY Politics I On the outskirts of Hertfordshire, a large white box is growing. Around it are green fields, a river, and further off, housing estates. Inside the box are tens of thousands of chips performing trillions of calculations per second. The switching of the chips is silent, but every watt of power that feeds them ultimately escapes as heat. Thousands of fans spin day and night to keep the heat from destroying rows of server racks. Transformers in the substation emit a low hum. Security lights burn through the night, cutting the darkness into pieces.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
How Content Creators Can Stream, Publish and Share Their Work More Safely
Content creation has become a distributed job. A creator might record at home, edit in a coworking space, upload from a hotel, stream from a laptop, and manage brand emails from a phone, all within the same week. Files, accounts, payment information, audience data and unfinished projects move between those environments constantly.
By Solution Boxesabout a month ago in 01
Baidu Once Owned the Internet. Then the Search Box Died.
Why Baidu Search Lost Its Way I was born in 1991. My teens ran into the wildest years of the Chinese internet. Internet cafes were thick with smoke. QQ beeps came and went. Non-mainstream avatars flashed across screens. When I didn't know a question, a song, a character, I didn't ask a teacher. I didn't scroll short videos. I opened a clean homepage and typed a few words into a search box. "Baidu it, and you'll know."
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Find My Phone: How Find My Device and Find My iPhone Are Tracking Lost Phones Faster Than Ever
Find My Phone: How Find My Device and Find My iPhone are tracking lost phones faster. Find My Phone tools, Google Find My Phone and Call My Phone help users track lost phones instantly.
By Alex Rayabout a month ago in 01
How Video Marketing Helps Law Firms Build Trust
Choosing a law firm often involves more than comparing services or fees. People seeking legal assistance may be dealing with financial concerns, family matters, disputes, injuries, or other sensitive circumstances. As a result, trust can play an important role in how prospective clients evaluate legal professionals.
By Solution Boxesabout a month ago in 01
I’m an Android Reverse Engineer. AI Was Supposed to Replace Me. It Didn’t.
The Knife Hangs at Your Neck, But It Never Falls Notes from an Android Reverse Engineer At 2 a.m., Marcus turned his phone face down on the desk. The screen still glowed. Someone in the Slack channel had posted a screenshot: an AI had explained a chunk of OLLVM-obfuscated assembly in seconds and generated a Frida hook template. Replies underneath: “insane,” “we’re done,” “unemployed.”
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Huawei’s AI Plan Isn’t to Win the Model War. It’s to Own the Ground Under It.
Huawei's AI Niche: A Long Campaign for the Base Layer A Positioning That Is Repeatedly Misread The most easily misread part of Guo Ping's remarks in Xinsheng Community is the phrase "become Nvidia." Most people see chips. But Guo Ping said "enable any large model in the world to run efficiently on Huawei's Ascend, Kunpeng, SuperPoD, and clusters." Chips are the hardware premise. The emphasis falls on "any" and "efficiently."
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Huawei’s AI Master Plan Isn’t About Beating OpenAI. It’s About Becoming the Next Nvidia.
Huawei's AI Strategy: Sell the Base, Not the Strongest Model The headline "Huawei executive's internal 10,000-word memo exposed, ICT business target is to become Nvidia" grabs attention. It is inaccurate. Huawei's Xinsheng Community published a summary of a discussion between Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei's supervisory board, and new employees. No secret file leaked. No employee risked a job to smuggle it out. Huawei used the session to explain what it will do in AI, what it will not do, and how it plans to close gaps.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01