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From January to October, the total output of lithium batteries in China increased by 16% year-on-year. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's lithium-ion battery industry continued to grow from January to October 2024. According to the announcement of lithium battery industry norms, enterprise information and industry associations, the total output of lithium batteries in China from January to October was 890GWh, up 16% year-on-year. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the profit of China's lithium battery manufacturing industry increased by 39.4% from January to October. In the battery sector, the output of energy storage lithium batteries exceeded 200GWh from January to October. The loading capacity of power lithium batteries for new energy vehicles is about 405GWh. From January to October, the total export of lithium batteries in China reached 350.2 billion yuan, down 9.2% year-on-year, and the decline was 3.3 percentage points narrower than that in January-June.Puli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: It won the bid for the tenth batch of national centralized drug procurement. According to Puli Pharmaceutical, on December 12, Puli Pharmaceutical's meglumine gadolinium tetate injection (trade name: Puli Yingxian) and Posaconazole injection (trade name: Puli Posa) both won the bid for the tenth batch of national centralized drug procurement.Extreme Yue will start two rounds of communication with Baidu and Geely, and the final employee compensation plan will be determined on December 17th. At 4: 30am on December 13th, Extreme Yue Xia Yiping said in the company's entire staff that after communicating with employee representatives, he agreed to the reasonable demands put forward by employees, and made a communication and promotion plan with Baidu and Geely, which will be completed from 13th to 17th. It is understood that the employees of Extreme Vietnam have listed a list of demands, including the requirement to pay five insurances, one gold and one tax for all employees from November to December, the N+1 compensation to be paid before December 31 this year, the settlement of on-the-job wages in December, etc. At the same time, it also involves pregnant women, after-care employees, employees with work-related injuries, employees who have settled down, front-line employees, employee owners, etc. (36Kr)

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.The Shanghai 50 index fell more than 2%, and the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 index fell 1.8%.Cantor Fitzgerald, the nominee of Trump Secretary of Commerce, was fined by the SEC, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company, for allegedly violating the regulatory disclosure regulations related to the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) before raising funds. Cantor agreed to settle the SEC's allegations with a civil fine of $6.75 million, and agreed not to violate the relevant laws and regulations again, but the company did not admit or deny the relevant allegations. It is worth noting that Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor, was recently nominated by US President-elect Trump as the Secretary of Commerce, and Lutnick is also the co-chairman of Trump's transition team.

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.Musk: Grok can now generate four images at the same time and render them step by step.Mitsubishi electric will invest $143.5 million to build a heat pump factory in the United States.