Microsoft is reported to have hired several DeepMind employees for the new AI health department. Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft consumer artificial intelligence and co-founder of DeepMind, is forming a new team focusing on consumer health. Dominic King, the former head of DeepMind health department, was hired as the vice president of Microsoft AI's new health team in London. He also poached DeepMind's clinical research scientist and Christopher Kelly, a neonatal intensive care doctor at Evelina Children's Hospital in London, and two other colleagues he worked with during DeepMind.The number of foreign passengers entering and leaving the West Kowloon Station Port this year exceeded 1 million. The reporter recently (9th) learned from the West Kowloon Border Inspection Station of Shenzhen Border Inspection Station that since the beginning of this year, more than 1 million foreign passengers from 164 countries and regions have entered and exited through the West Kowloon Station Port, an increase of 90.2% over last year, and the highest single-day passenger flow this year exceeded 6,300. (CCTV News)The Philippine stock index fell 1% to 6,656.39.
The chairman of Japan's trade union called on the government to speed up its efforts to raise wages, and the chairman of Japan's Metal Workers' Union urged the government to speed up the pace of wage increase, while expressing concern about the premature tightening measures taken by the Bank of Japan. Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Board of Directors of the Japan Metal Workers' Union, said that we need to see the situation improve this year when talking about the government's measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises pass on costs to consumers through the supply chain. If we put off this effort for five or ten years, there will never be any improvement. Kaneko's remarks come as Japan prepares for annual wage negotiations, which will culminate this spring. In next year's negotiations, the union announced a record target of a monthly salary increase of 12,000 yen (US$ 79) or more. Kaneko said that we need to send a clear message that our salary increase target (this year) is higher.The main contract of the container transport index (European line) fell more than 4.00% in the day and is now reported at 2436.2 points.The number of users of WeChat applet has reached 949 million. According to the latest data of QuestMobile, as of October this year, the cumulative number of users of WeChat applet has reached 949 million. On average, each user spends 1.7 hours a month using WeChat applets, while the average number of uses per month is close to 70, up by 15.1% and 5.2% respectively compared with the same period last year.
A laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples. It is reported that a laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples, causing a "major loophole" in biosafety. On December 8th, Queensland Health Minister announced that there are currently 323 bottles of live virus missing. These include nearly 100 bottles of Hendra virus, two bottles of Hantavirus and 223 bottles of rabies virus-all of which are extremely deadly to human beings. The Queensland authorities insist that although these samples can be used as weapons, it is "not something that amateurs can do". The sample was lost in 2021, but investigators did not confirm the leak until August 2023. Queensland authorities waited for a year before being allowed to open the freezer where the samples were stored, and only this month were they able to confirm that the samples were lost. It is not clear where these samples may be or whether they have been destroyed. However, there is no evidence that the public is at risk of infection because of the disappearance of samples.The cement building materials sector rose sharply, Yatai Group had a daily limit in the afternoon, and Honglu Steel Structure, Fujian Cement, Jinyu Group, hangxiao and Tianshan were among the top gainers.ST Huatong's newly established technology company includes Internet information service business. The enterprise search APP shows that recently, Shanghai Lingwu Technology Co., Ltd. was established, with the legal representative of Chen Qi and the registered capital of 1 million yuan. Its business scope includes: Internet information service; The second kind of value-added telecommunications services, etc. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by ST Huatong.