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Survey by Monetary Authority of Singapore: Economists have lowered Singapore's non-oil domestic export growth forecast from 3.0% to 1.0% in 2024.Sony Group's share price hit a record high in intraday trading, and Sony Group's share price broke through the high of 3,390 yen set in 2000, reaching a record high.Kremlin: Russia has dialogue with all countries in the region, and we intend to continue the dialogue.

Japan Life Insurance announced that it would spend $8.2 billion to acquire the life insurance company Resolution Life. On December 11th, Japan Life Insurance Mutual announced that it would spend about $8.2 billion to acquire the remaining 77% shares of the life insurance company Resolution Life. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. On the same day, Japan Life announced that it would acquire the remaining 20% shares of MLC Life Insurance from National Bank of Australia (NAB) and integrate MLC with Resolution Life.India's SENSEX30 index opened 0.07% higher at 81,568.39 points. Among the constituent stocks, ULTRATECH CEMENT opened 1% higher, Asian Coatings rose 0.74% and BAJAJ FINANCE rose 0.62%. In terms of decline, Mahengda Information Technology opened 0.44% lower, India Industrial Credit Investment Bank fell 0.33%, and HCL TECHNOLOGIES fell 0.26%.Starbucks China responded to the newly created position of Chief Growth Officer: to promote the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. Recently, some media reported that the management of Starbucks China continued to adjust and hired CGO to manage the growth from digital marketing companies. In response to the above information, Sina Technology verified Starbucks, and the official response said: China is Starbucks' largest international market and an important engine for the company's future growth. In November, Starbucks China established the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) organization and appointed Tony Yang as the company's Chief Growth Officer (CGO). The establishment of CGO organization will continue to strengthen Starbucks' coffee leadership, accelerate the product innovation with coffee as the core, better refresh customers' Starbucks experience at various contacts through integrated marketing strategies, and promote the sustainable development of Starbucks brand in China. At present, Starbucks has more than 7,600 stores in China, reaching a new development milestone covering 1,000 county-level markets. (Sina Technology)

The Top Ten Trends of AI in 2024 were released, and the Quantum Think Tank released the Top Ten Trends Report of AI in 2024 today, looking forward to the future trends from three dimensions of technology, products and industry, including: large-scale model innovation: accelerated emergence of architecture optimization, and the general trend of convergence and iteration; Scaling Law generalization: reasoning ability becomes a crown jewel, which forces calculation and data change; AGI exploration: video generation ignites the world model, and space intelligence unifies virtual and reality; AI application pattern: The first round of shuffling is over, focusing on five scenes of 20 tracks; AI application competition: multi-field racing operation is greater than technology, and AI assistant strategists must compete; AI application growth: AI+X empowerment products are getting faster and faster, and native AI explosions are hard to find; AI product trends: multi-modal launch, Agent sweeping, highly personalized; AI wisdom changes thousands of industries: the left hand changes productivity, and the right hand reshapes the industry ecology; AI industry penetration rate: the data base determines the initial speed, and the user demand becomes the acceleration; AI Venture Capital: The Matthew effect of investment and financing is obvious, and the frequency of the national team's shots has increased.German Foreign Minister: The truce between Kurds and Turkey is good news.German Foreign Minister: The truce between Kurds and Turkey is good news.