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Weixing Co., Ltd.: Compared with the first half of the year, the growth rate of acquiring orders in the second half of the year gradually declined, but the overall growth rate still maintained. Weixing Co., Ltd. recently said in a conference call that due to the influence of the terminal consumption boom, downstream brand customers were cautious in placing orders, and the growth rate of acquiring orders in the second half of the year gradually declined compared with the first half of the year, but the overall growth rate still maintained. In recent years, the company has mainly focused on promoting globalization strategy, intelligent manufacturing strategy and improving manufacturing level, technical level and product quality, and achieved certain results.The annual evaluation report of the big model in the financial field was released, and the big model of Step Star/Fortune Leap Star performed well. The 6th Shanghai International Forum on Financial Technology was held in Shanghai. At the meeting, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, together with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai Cooper Technology Co., Ltd., released the Report on Evaluation of Large Models in Financial Field (2024), which comprehensively evaluated 20 models from five dimensions: model basic ability, financial security and value alignment ability, financial risk control ability, financial professional cognitive ability and financial business auxiliary expansion ability. The comprehensive scores of Anthropic, Step Star/Fortune Star and Alibaba ranked in the top three. Step-2-16k model of Step Star/Fortune Star got the second comprehensive score, and the multi-modal comprehensive score of Finstep model got the first.Goldman Sachs lowered the UK's GDP growth forecast for 2024 from the previous 1.2% to 1.0%.

The privatization of Avenue Industry is nearing completion. Patec, a precision engineering manufacturer, and related parties have accumulated 85.27% of the shares of Broadway Industrial Group, and the acquisition of Avenue Industry is nearing completion. According to the announcement, the offer price is S $0.197 per share, which is the final price and will not be further increased. The deadline for the offer is 5: 30 pm on December 23rd.More than 100 underground money houses have been destroyed by public security organs to crack down on the money-changing party. The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference today (13th) to inform the public security organs throughout the country of the effectiveness of measures to crack down on the money-changing party and derivative crimes. According to the press conference, in May 2024, the Ministry of Public Security deployed the national public security organs to carry out special work to crack down on the rectification of the "money exchange party" and derivative crimes, cracked a series of cases, arrested a group of "money exchange party" personnel, and smashed a group of "underground money houses". The whole chain destroyed a group of criminal gangs and achieved remarkable results. Since the action, the Ministry of Public Security has listed and supervised 16 major cases; The National Immigration Bureau instructed the border inspection authorities in Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other places to actively cooperate with the special work class to carry out verification and disposal and personnel transfer. Since the special action, 142 personnel of the "money exchange party" have been seized and handed over to the special work class according to law. A total of 263 derivative criminal gangs suspected of illegal business operations, organizing illegal border crossing, fraud, illegal detention, etc. were destroyed in various places, and more than 100 underground money houses were destroyed, and more than 80 billion yuan of funds involved were identified. The headquarters in front of the Ministry of Public Security further strengthened the clues, organized relevant provinces to carry out five centralized arrests, arrested 846 suspects and cracked a number of major cases.Musk: Grok can now generate four images at the same time and render them step by step.

Asia-Pacific Pharmaceuticals: The new specifications of cefmetazole sodium for injection were approved, and Asia-Pacific Pharmaceuticals announced that the company was approved by National Medical Products Administration, and the new specifications of cefmetazole sodium for injection were 0.5g and 2g, which further enriched the product categories on the basis of the original 1g specifications. The annual sales income of this drug in 2023 was 96.3946 million yuan, accounting for 22.92% of the company's operating income. New specifications are helpful to market promotion and competitiveness improvement, but drug production and sales are affected by policies and market environment, and there are uncertainties.Organic fluorides in two underground waters in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan exceeded the standard. On the 13th, local time, it was learned that the government department of Tochigi Prefecture in Japan said on the same day that organic fluorides exceeding Japan's provisional safe range were detected in the underground waters of two wells located in Ghost Nuqiu, Zhengang City. (CCTV News)The head of the region said that the Russian attack on the key infrastructure in the Ivano-Frankov region was the biggest attack on the region so far.