Apple plans to introduce a custom AI emoji feature in the upcoming iOS 18.2 update by the end of the year, including Image Playground and Genmoji, allowing users to create personalized, festive-themed emojis. This feature aims to enrich user communication, provide developers with new creative spaces, and bring fun to users during the holiday season. This move reflects Apple's innovation in the field of AI applications and its focus on user experience.

Tencent Mixyuan, in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University, has developed an innovative portrait animation generation framework called 'Follow Your Emoji'. This technology breaks traditional boundaries, allowing a static photo to be transformed into a vivid facial animation that captures and reproduces subtle changes in a person's expressions.

Apple cancels its plans for developing self-driving electric vehicles and shifts focus to its artificial intelligence department. Li Xiang believes that Apple's decision to abandon car manufacturing is the right choice and considers artificial intelligence to be a crucial battlefield for Apple. Musk posted emojis in tribute to Apple's decision.