Microsoft sends voluntary departure invitations to 60,000 employees; DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng enters top ten of rich list with 280 billion; OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra

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1. Doubling down on AI to streamline staff! Microsoft sends voluntary departure invitations to 60,000 employees, with compensation of at least N+2

2. DeepSeek aggressively expands its team! Liang Wenfeng debuts in the top ten of the rich list with 280 billion, reportedly has long rented in Beijing

3. iPhone Duo reportedly relaxed quality checks to meet production capacity! Apple customer service denies it

4. Douyin responds to claim that China's internet has entered the ByteDance era: extremely imprecise, pure nonsense

5. Case solved! The true identity of the mysterious yellow object hanging outside the Tencent Penguin Island building is finally revealed

6. Alibaba wins initial victory in lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, court halts related ban

7. Mbappé's controversial remarks spark public outrage! Xiaohongshu statement: continuously reviewing and removing Mbappé-related materials

8. New model price cut in half! OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra Today's Headlines

Doubling down on AI to streamline staff! Microsoft sends voluntary departure invitations to 60,000 employees, with compensation of at least N+2

On October 27, Beijing time, Microsoft launched a voluntary departure program involving about 60,000 employees, equivalent to roughly 27% of Microsoft's total global workforce. As of the end of June this year, Microsoft had about 223,000 full-time employees. The program applies to eligible employees at level 70 and below, including senior managers, in participating departments in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. Eligible employees need to decide whether to accept the package by early December and leave the company by the end of this year.

The voluntary departure compensation terms are similar to the company's standard layoff compensation plan. When Microsoft laid off employees in the United States earlier this year, the compensation package it offered included at least 60 days of base pay, and most employees also received up to 39 weeks of base pay depending on level and tenure. In July this year, Microsoft announced the elimination of 4,800 positions.

In April this year, Microsoft launched a voluntary departure compensation program for the first time, with about 7% of employees across the United States eligible to apply. It had also previously introduced a voluntary retirement program, with about 9,000 employees meeting the age and tenure requirements. (21st Century Business Herald) Domestic News

DeepSeek aggressively expands its team! Liang Wenfeng debuts in the top ten of the rich list with 280 billion, reportedly has long rented in Beijing

On October 27, the Hurun Rich List was released, and DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng appeared on the list for the first time, ranking seventh with 280 billion yuan in wealth. According to a report the same day, as a new round of financing attracts attention, DeepSeek's team expansion is also accelerating. Several people familiar with the matter told the media that DeepSeek's recent expansion momentum has been strong.

A person close to DeepSeek said the company is planning a new growth roadmap for investors, including aggressively expanding its team. This person close to DeepSeek also revealed that DeepSeek's offices are mainly located in Beijing and Hangzhou. Founder Liang Wenfeng has long rented housing in Beijing, and the room layout has always been relatively simple.

The company had already sent recruitment signals multiple times before: in June it proposed at least doubling every department, and in September it released hundreds of engineering positions. Rumors say DeepSeek's new round of financing is about 100 billion yuan, and the total financing over half a year is considerable. Liang Wenfeng travels year-round between Beijing and Hangzhou, and occasionally also goes to Shenzhen. Although DeepSeek is registered in Hangzhou, Beijing is home to its core algorithm team. (Phoenix Technology, The Programmer's Life)

iPhone Duo reportedly relaxed quality checks to meet production capacity! Apple customer service denies it

On October 27, Apple issued an official response to the screen failure issues that recently appeared on the iPhone Duo, saying that affected users can contact AppleCare to arrange a replacement. "The first batch of users has responded very enthusiastically to the iPhone Duo. At present, we have noticed that a very small number of iPhone Duo devices have experienced some issues with the inner display," Apple said officially. "If users encounter display problems with the iPhone Duo, please contact AppleCare to arrange a replacement."

According to earlier reports, iPhone Duo screen failure issues have occurred frequently recently, and it is widely speculated that the cause may mainly lie in the hinge. A Foxconn employee told the media that under tight production capacity, Apple had previously lowered certain yield quality inspection standards to ensure supply.

However, in the latest development, a person familiar with the iPhone Duo supply chain told the media that Apple had not internally taken measures such as lowering yield quality inspection standards. (Sina Technology, Jiemian News)

Douyin responds to claim that China's internet has entered the ByteDance era: extremely imprecise, pure nonsense

On October 27, news emerged that the saying "China's internet has entered the ByteDance era" has recently appeared online. The basis for the related view is that for the first time, the user time spent on ByteDance apps significantly exceeded that on Tencent apps, making ByteDance the internet giant occupying the most users' online time across the entire network. In response, Li Liang, vice president of Douyin Group, publicly responded, directly commenting that this characterization is extremely imprecise and pure nonsense.

Li Liang said that competition in the internet is fierce, and no company has become "China's internet's xx era." Among internet products, only instant messaging has a relatively stable market structure because of the moat formed by relationship chains. Products such as short dramas and short videos belong to fully competitive industries, where market competition is fierce and the market structure changes quickly. No company can firmly hold the market's No. 1 position. The real situation is that Tencent's short drama and short video growth rates far exceed those of Douyin and Hongguo. He emphasized that among internet applications, instant messaging, games, e-commerce and music all occupy a very large amount of users' "time."

Meanwhile, regarding the online rumor that "Hongguo Short Dramas has an annual revenue of 40 billion yuan," officials have also refuted it, saying the revenue figure is untrue. Officials stated that the so-called "institutional data," "industry data" and "expert estimates" in the online content are not official information, and that the comparisons, calculations and extended interpretations made on that basis have no factual grounding. (Kuai Technology)

Mystery solved! The true nature of the mysterious yellow object hanging outside the Tencent Penguin Island building has finally been revealed

October 27 news: Since Tencent Penguin Island was put into use, it has been a hot topic in big-tech circles. Recently, a photo of an orange long tube hanging outside the building has made many netizens curious, and this mysterious object has now finally been revealed.

Previously, a netizen photographed from a distance a long orange hose extending from a window of the Penguin Island office floor, and the related images spread on social platforms, sparking heated discussion. People let their imaginations run wild, with all kinds of guesses: some thought it was special pipeline equipment, some thought it was a distinctive decoration of the campus, and others guessed it was a dedicated device used for project testing. Various rumors kept circulating, with no conclusion ever reached.

With a real photo recently exposed on social platforms: it is a set of blowers paired with a retractable ventilation hose, belonging to ventilation equipment. It is understood that the device is used for indoor emergency ventilation, which can both expel stuffy hot air outward and draw fresh air in from outside. After seeing the real photo, some netizens remarked that the object that had been spread around so mysteriously had a truth that was actually very plain, and joked: "No way, does such a formal building use such a makeshift ventilation method?" "It's used to vent the grievances of office workers."

Public reports show that Penguin Island is located in the Dachan Bay area of Qianhai and is Tencent's new headquarters campus. The project has a total investment of 31.9 billion yuan and a total construction area of more than 3 million square meters, and is planned to accommodate more than 80,000 people for office work. As of October this year, nearly 30,000 employees have moved in one after another. (Kuai Technology)

"iOS 27.2 bans shake-to-jump" trends on social media

On October 27, the topic "iOS 27.2 bans shake-to-jump" trended on Weibo. In the early hours of October 27, Apple pushed the official version of iOS 27.2, and many people tested that the official version of iOS 27.2 already supports banning "shake" ad jumps. In the system settings for China-region users, a new "Restrict Motion Data" switch has been added. Path: Settings → Privacy & Security → Motion & Fitness → Restrict Motion Data → Edit (custom add apps).

It is reported that its core principle is to cut off apps' permission to read the phone's motion data. Users can manually add specified apps to the restriction list, and the listed apps will be unable to access motion data, thereby cutting off their path of reading signals from the accelerometer, gyroscope and other sensors to determine shaking and automatically jump to ads.

In addition, this Apple update also strengthens Siri AI contextual capabilities and optimizes several built-in apps. For example, the Apple Music icon has been renewed, with the classic red replaced by a new minimalist black-and-white app icon logo; the battery icon has also been unified. (Yicai)

Alibaba wins initial victory in lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, court halts related ban

October 27 news: According to foreign media reports, Alibaba Group has won a ruling in a U.S. court. The company had previously challenged the U.S. Department of Defense's blacklist designating it as a "Chinese military-affiliated enterprise." A federal judge in San Jose, California, issued a ruling on Monday local time requiring the Trump administration to stop enforcing a ban that prohibits the Pentagon from doing business with any company conducting "lobbying activities" for Alibaba Group.

According to previous reports, on June 8, the U.S. Department of Defense updated its "Chinese Military Companies List," adding Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Baidu and BYD. Subsequently, Alibaba and several other companies issued statements expressing strong opposition. Alibaba said at the time that it believed its inclusion on the Chinese military companies list was a mistake. There is no basis for including Alibaba Group on that list.

Several foreign media outlets reported on June 23 that Alibaba had sued the U.S. Department of Defense, seeking removal from the "Chinese Military Companies List." Alibaba then said: "We have formally filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, requesting that the company be removed from the 'Chinese Military Companies List.'" (IT Home)

Xiaomi unveils 21-degree-of-freedom bionic dexterous hand: 26-motor hybrid drive, 1,500-point tactile coverage across the palm

October 27 news: Xiaomi Technology's official WeChat account posted about the R&D progress of a new-generation high-degree-of-freedom bionic hand. The design is based on real production data from the pilot center of Xiaomi Auto's intelligent manufacturing department, continues the ultimate bionic route, and is positioned as a general-purpose dexterous manipulation solution for flexible manufacturing scenarios. The R&D team collected multi-angle video and motion-capture data for 1,827 of the 2,579 SOPs across 16 typical factory work sections, with the dataset covering more than 70.8% of manual work processes in typical work sections.

Through analysis of degree-of-freedom utilization, joint coupling analysis and grasping simulation ablation validation, the team confirmed that 21 degrees of freedom is the optimal balance point between manipulation coverage and engineering benefits in current factory scenarios. Compared with versions with 6 to 15 degrees of freedom, the average stable grasping success rate increased by 15% to 38%, and when further increased to more than 23 degrees of freedom, the marginal benefits clearly slowed.

It adopts a predominantly tendon-rope-driven configuration, integrating 5 direct-drive degrees of freedom to form a 26-motor hybrid drive scheme. The tendon-driven motors are centrally arranged in the forearm section, and the palm itself weighs only 324 grams, effectively reducing the rotational inertia of the end effector and improving control response speed. The scheme is also equipped with tendon tension sensors to compensate for rope creep, enabling fine force control of the fingertip end effector and the grasping process; full-palm tactile coverage spans 1,500 sensing points, with tactile resolution reaching 1 mm between the fingers and 2 mm on the palm, and the tactile modules support replacement and maintenance. (Kuai Technology)

Mbappé's controversial remarks spark public outrage! Xiaohongshu statement: continuously reviewing and removing Mbappé-related materials

October 27 news: It is reported that recently, French player Mbappé, who plays for Real Madrid, made inappropriate remarks in an interview, triggering strong dissatisfaction among domestic netizens, who have spoken out in protest. On the 27th, Dongpeng Beverage Group, Mengniu Dairy, Milkground and multiple other brands successively issued statements terminating their contracts.

In addition, the Xiaohongshu platform stated that it is continuously reviewing and removing Mbappé-related materials. The official governance account of Xiaohongshu published a statement saying: "Xiaohongshu firmly opposes any behavior that harms national sentiment. Upon verification, Xiaohongshu launched a content collaboration with Kylian Mbappé in 2024, and that collaboration expired on December 31, 2024." Currently, Mbappé's Xiaohongshu account has been muted and prohibited from being followed for violating relevant community rules. The account shows that Mbappé has more than 1.05 million followers on Xiaohongshu.

According to media reports, Dongpeng Special Drink, Mengniu, Milkground, Xiaohongshu, On Running, Dior, Oakley, Hublot, NIKE and Rimowa have all deleted Mbappé-related content from their official Weibo accounts. At the same time, sports platforms such as Hupu and Dongqiudi have deleted Mbappé's ranking for the 2026 Ballon d'Or. According to the latest reports, in response to this matter, Mbappé issued an apology statement in Chinese, English and French: "This was absolutely not my intention, and I am truly sorry." (Sina Technology, Yicai)

Zhaopin: AI engineers command a salary premium of 50% to 60%

On October 27, the Digital Economy Research Institute of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Zhaopin jointly released the "2026 Attractiveness Index Report for Digital Economy Talent in Major Chinese Cities." The report shows that the national map of digital economy talent attractiveness presents a pattern of "three poles leading, seven cities excelling, and clear stratification."

Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest variables in cities' attractiveness for digital economy talent. The top six positions in three trend indicators—mid-to-high-end positions, emerging positions and AI engineers—are all occupied by the seven cities of Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Nanjing, and the head-concentration pattern is already fairly clear at the job dimension.

Salaries and talent flows are resonating positively, and talent competition is shifting from "policy price comparison" to "ecosystem competition." Shanghai (16,876 yuan/month), Beijing (16,818 yuan/month) and Shenzhen (15,803 yuan/month) occupy the top three for monthly salaries in digital economy positions, with AI engineers commanding a salary premium of 50% to 60%; among the top ten cities by net inflow, the Yangtze River Delta accounts for 6 seats and the Greater Bay Area for 3, with Shenzhen (3.49%), Hangzhou (2.54%) and Shanghai (2.15%) ranking in the top three, while cities with net outflow are mainly concentrated in Hebei. (Sina Finance)

After Starbucks, a Nayuki store also introduces "seat for paying customers"! Official customer service responds

October 27 news: According to media reports, recently, a consumer in Chengdu, Sichuan, posted on social media a photo of a "seat for paying customers" sign at the Nayuki Chengdu Shimao Plaza store, and netizens quickly linked it to Starbucks' earlier new "seat for paying customers" rule.

The poster said the photo was taken on October 24, and that they stayed in the store for about 30 minutes and saw that non-paying customers could sit normally, with staff not approaching to remind or ask them to leave. Staff at the store responded that the store did indeed display a "seat for paying customers" sign, "placed more than half a month ago," and that for now they have not reminded or asked non-paying seated customers to leave.

Asked whether Nayuki has set up "seat for paying customers" signs nationwide, staff at Nayuki's national official customer service hotline responded that headquarters has not formulated a unified "seat for paying customers" management rule, and that individual stores' practices are independent actions of those stores, with specific implementation subject to the corresponding store.

Earlier reports said Starbucks China recently released its "Third Place" initiative, announcing that starting October 22 it would implement a new "seat for paying customers" rule across its stores nationwide, and the related measures sparked discussion among consumers. (Sina Technology)

First 5,000 XPeng MONA L05 vehicles roll off the line: delivery at launch, no need to wait at all

October 27 news: XPeng officially announced that 5,000 Mona L05 vehicles have rolled off the production line in mass production, achieving delivery at launch, and that this is a dedicated production line that will go all out to ensure supply.

Reports say the vehicle is the third model in the Mona series. Thanks to the strong sales base of the M03 and L03, the L05 is likely to become a hit as well as long as its price does not drift too high. The L05 has recently opened pre-sales at a price of 169,800 yuan, and following XPeng's usual practice, it is possible that the official launch price will be cut by 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, which means the starting price of this vehicle could even fall into the 130,000 yuan range.

The vehicle is positioned as a mid-size SUV, with length, width and height of 4870/1930/1636mm respectively and a wheelbase of 2940mm. It offers 18-inch and 20-inch wheels, corresponding to tire sizes of 225/60 R18 and 245/45 R20 respectively, and its powertrain includes both pure electric and extended-range options. The exterior continues the design approach of the L03, equipped with semi-hidden door handles, rear privacy glass, bright yellow brake caliper covers and a full-width taillight, while adopting a vision-based assisted driving solution, carrying XPeng's self-developed Turing AI chip, and offering point-to-point assisted driving capability. (Kuai Technology)

Zhiyuan releases embodied Agent framework Genie Master: robots can evolve while working

October 27 news, Zhiyuan officially released the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, enabling robots to unlock new skills while on the job.

It is reported that the Genie G2 equipped with this framework, during its deployment in a real convenience store, does not rely on manual demonstration and debugging, and locates the causes of failures, adjusts strategies and accumulates experience on its own, achieving continuous improvement on multiple complex and delicate tasks and realizing "human-out-of-the-loop" continuous self-evolution. This is the first time in the industry that Physical RSI (embodied recursive self-improvement) has been validated in a real business scenario, breaking out of the simulation environment and out of the laboratory.

According to Zhiyuan, the Genie G2 equipped with this framework has already carried out task validation in convenience stores for tasks such as packaged cooked food, picking up goods and restocking. On November 2, Zhiyuan will also arrange 6 Genie G2 units to conduct a continuous 24-hour live-streamed convenience store operation test. In addition, Zhiyuan recently released the safety-grade heavy-duty embodied robot Genie G2 Max, targeting industrial scenarios such as depalletizing and palletizing, material transfer and production line feeding. (IT Home)

On October 27, Rokid and Qianwen Office announced a partnership, with Qianwen Office officially integrated into Rokid AI glasses. Users can add "Qianwen Office" in the agent store of the "RokidAI" App, bind their Qianwen Office account, and then wear the glasses to wake up Qianwen Office by voice, issue tasks, and view results on the glasses. (Bianews)

Five Pang Dong Lai employees receive 70,000 yuan in compensation from the company after being beaten or insulted by customers

October 27 news, Pang Dong Lai recently published a notice on "infringement of personal dignity." Relevant cases show that a total of 5 employees received a total of 70,000 yuan in company compensation after being beaten or insulted by customers.

Among them, on August 22, customer Wang attempted to force his way through the crowd-control point on the third floor of the Xinxiang Erpang supermarket, and when an employee surnamed Wang tried to stop him, he was patted, pushed and shoved, and had an arm wrapped around his neck, among other actions, and the store immediately called the police. At present, the public security authorities have imposed an administrative fine on customer Wang in accordance with the law on the grounds of disturbing public order. Pang Dong Lai has filed a civil lawsuit in accordance with the law to pursue the civil tort liability of the relevant responsible persons and has revoked the customer's Pang Dong Lai membership. In accordance with the company's "Standards for Handling and Compensating Infringements of Personal Dignity," Pang Dong Lai gave the employee surnamed Wang 20,000 yuan in compensation.

Since 2023, Pang Dong Lai has repeatedly given employees spiritual compensation in response to incidents of customers reprimanding or insulting employees. In November 2025, Pang Dong Lai published a notice listing a total of 33 cases of employees whose personal dignity was infringed from January 1 to October 31, 2025, with total compensation amounting to 359,000 yuan, which sparked heated discussion. (Kuai Technology)

Pop Mart: Third-quarter overall revenue down 45%-50% year on year

On October 27, Pop Mart announced its latest business situation for the third quarter of 2026. The announcement shows that overall revenue (unaudited) in the third quarter of 2026 fell 45%-50% year on year compared with the third quarter of 2025; among this, revenue in China fell 25%-30% year on year, revenue in the Asia-Pacific region fell 65%-70% year on year, revenue in the Americas fell 70%-75% year on year, and revenue in Europe and other regions fell 50%-55% year on year. Revenue from offline channels in China fell 5%-10% year on year, and revenue from online channels fell 45%-50% year on year.

As of the close on the 27th, Pop Mart's Hong Kong stock fell 0.75% to HK$132, with a latest market value of about HK$175.8 billion. (Yicai) International News

New model price halved! OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra

October 27 news, on local time October 26, on the same day that Anthropic submitted its IPO registration documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), OpenAI released the new model GPT-6.1 Terra, cutting the standard API price by 50% compared with the previous generation.

OpenAI said that GPT-6.1 Terra focuses on visual understanding and computer operation, and can handle tasks such as filling out web forms, editing videos and reading technical drawings. In the Agents' Last Exam professional task evaluation, the model improved by 15 percentage points over GPT-5.6 Terra at medium reasoning intensity, and the cost per single task dropped to about one-third; in the Terminal-Bench 4.0 programming evaluation, its score at the highest reasoning intensity was 50.3%, higher than the previous generation's 21.5%.

Price is the focus of this release. GPT-6.1 Terra's standard API input price is $1 per million tokens, output price is $5, and cached input is $0.05. Compared with GPT-6 Astra, its input and output token unit prices are both one-tenth; compared with GPT-5.6 Terra, the standard price is down 50%.

The report said that from 2025 to now, due to the impact of open-source models, OpenAI's price-cutting strategy has become more aggressive and direct, with the goal clearly aimed at capturing call volume and ecosystem. Behind the price cuts is the company's expectation for larger-scale call volume. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman places considerable importance on the prospect of Terra 6.1 so-called "opening the era of computer use." (Yicai)

Spending 20 billion! Nvidia takes a stake in Meta

On October 27, Nvidia announced that it plans to invest $3 billion (20 billion yuan) to subscribe to Meta shares and expand cooperation between the two sides around the Muse AI assistant and the Muse series models, focusing on improving model training and inference performance and reducing the operating costs of AI agents.

According to the announcement, the two sides will further optimize the operating process of the Muse model, improve the utilization efficiency of computing infrastructure, and improve total cost of ownership. In addition, the two sides are considering further cooperation, including adopting Nvidia's OpenShell reference architecture to strengthen the secure deployment of AI agents, and using NVIDIA Sentry to monitor agent behavior. These technical cooperations have not yet been finalized.

On the hardware side, Meta plans to expand the deployment scale of Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform and Vera CPU, while adopting Spectrum-X Ethernet networking technology and BlueField-4 to improve data center network efficiency, throughput, and performance per watt. (Yuntoutiao)

The Netherlands plans to use AI to replace 25,000 government jobs, aiming to save 3.5 billion euros

October 27 news, according to foreign media reports, the Dutch government announced a major push into AI to improve administrative efficiency, planning to gradually cut 25,000 government jobs, with the layoff scale accounting for about 16% of the total number of Dutch government employees, with the ultimate goal of saving 3.5 billion euros (about 26.152 billion yuan).

According to reports, the Dutch government hopes to use AI to improve efficiency and raise productivity by 20%. It also plans to streamline regulations to reduce the government's workload; the government has already planned to abolish or simplify 500 regulations each year. At the same time, the Dutch government will in the future require two employees to share one desk, and the government will also sell idle office buildings and standardize and renovate IT systems. This round of layoffs will not affect police and defense department positions, but standing advisory committees and advisory bodies are not within the exemption scope.

The Dutch government has previously passed multiple motions related to using AI to improve productivity and will continue to advance cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the future. As of the end of 2025, the number of central government staff in the Netherlands reached 160,000, an increase of 41% compared with 2018. (IT Home)

Meta to raise a massive $95 billion: to fund artificial intelligence expansion

October 27 news, according to foreign media reports, Meta said on Monday that it plans to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and superintelligence. Meta will first raise $35 billion through an underwritten public stock offering, and then raise $60 billion through an at-the-market offering program.

Meta said on Monday that its planned investments will support "emerging artificial intelligence opportunities," including its family of applications, the AI agent Muse, and its data center business. The company plans to balance funding for these investments through a combination of operating cash flow, investment-grade debt, partnerships, and equity capital. (Sanyan Technology)

Musk remains firmly bullish on memory demand, saying robots will need more memory than any other field

October 27 news, Tesla CEO Musk said that robots' demand for memory will be larger than anything else on Earth. This view may become a supporting factor for the market to further turn bullish on the memory sector, benefiting the stock prices of companies such as Micron and SK Hynix.

A research institution previously expected in a report that demand for DRAM from humanoid robots will grow 20-fold by 2030 compared with now, increasing from about 8,300 TB to 172,000 TB. The amount of memory equipped per robot will also double, from 19 GB to 39 GB (1 TB = 1,000 GB).

Later, a netizen reposted the research and summarized it as follows: assuming annual production of humanoid robots is 550,000 units, total DRAM demand would be 21.5 PB; even if annual production increases 20-fold, total DRAM demand would still be only 430 PB, while this year's DRAM output is about 48 EB (1 EB = 1,000 PB, 1 PB = 1,000 TB). Musk then responded to this statement, calling it absurd. He stressed that when artificial intelligence moves from processing information to the physical world, carrier robots' memory consumption will crush all existing computing devices on Earth. (Cailian Press)

U.S. food delivery platform DoorDash is close to acquiring Instacart for $17 billion

October 27 news, according to sources, DoorDash is in in-depth talks to acquire Instacart's parent company Maplebear for about $17 billion. The deal may be announced as early as this week, but the company has not yet made a final decision and the talks may still fall apart. (36Kr)