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OPPO announced today that its latest foldable phone, the Find N5, will officially launch on February 20 at 19:00. This phone is touted as the world's thinnest foldable phone, with a thickness of only about 4mm when unfolded and less than 9.2mm when folded. In addition to its ultra-thin design, the Find N5 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and features a 3D-printed titanium alloy hinge, making it the world's only foldable flagship phone that supports full-level waterproofing with IPX6, IPX8, and IPX9 ratings.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced to the public that it has referred its legal complaint against Snap Inc. to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The FTC pointed out that the AI chatbot launched by Snap may pose 'risks and harms' to young users and stated that Snap may be violating or is about to violate relevant laws. Source note: Image generated by AI, image provided by service provider Midjourney. Snap is a popular social app among young people, especially teenagers.

At the 2025 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES2025), Qualcomm showcased its next-generation AI technology and collaborative achievements across PCs, cars, smart homes, and enterprise sectors. The event took place in Las Vegas, where Qualcomm demonstrated how AI capabilities in its chips are transforming user experiences across various devices, presenting the future of smart technology. Qualcomm also introduced the Snapdragon X platform for the first time, marking the fourth platform in its high-performance PC product lineup.

Last Thursday, domestic tech company Shanji launched its first AI camera glasses, marking an important milestone in the domestic AI eyewear field. The glasses are priced at 1499 Yuan, while the first batch of 50,000 co-creation units was sold at a discounted price of 999 Yuan, reportedly even lower than similar products from Xiaomi. Additionally, Shanji introduced a special promotion where users can receive a full refund if they check in 200 days within 300 days (not necessarily consecutively), which undoubtedly increases the product's appeal.

Dr. Alan Becker, a deep learning scientist who previously led the development of Snapchat's 'My AI' chatbot, has recently come back to launch a new company called eSelf. This startup is focused on creating a real-time, video-based conversational AI assistant platform and has successfully secured $4.5 million in seed funding, officially entering the fierce competition in the field of AI assistants. eSelf's early goal is to provide a more realistic and interactive AI experience for verticals such as education, sales, financial services, real estate, and healthcare.

On October 22, 2024, Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, at the Snapdragon Technology Summit. This chip is manufactured using TSMC's second-generation 3nm process and features Qualcomm's self-developed Oryon CPU architecture, achieving a dual enhancement in performance and energy efficiency. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is Qualcomm's first mobile platform to adopt an all-large core design, eliminating the previous mix of big and little cores. The CPU consists of two super cores with a frequency of up to 4.32GHz and six cores running at 3.53GHz.

At the Snapdragon Summit 2024 held today, Qualcomm officially unveiled the highly anticipated Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, a chip built on TSMC's advanced second-generation 3nm process technology, marking a new peak in performance for Android smartphone chips. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 features an entirely new core design, eliminating the small cores in favor of a full big-core layout, which includes 2 ultra-large cores with clock speeds reaching up to 4.32GHz and 6 large cores at 3.53GHz. This design sets a new historical record for smartphone processor clock speeds.

Snapchat recently announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, focusing on enhancing the generative AI capabilities of Snapchat's My AI chatbot. Through this collaboration, My AI will be able to leverage the multimodal capabilities of Google's Gemini AI to understand and process a variety of information, including text, audio, images, and video. At Snap's annual partner summit, Snapchat showcased Gemini-powered features.

At the intersection of technology and creativity, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has once again showcased its innovative prowess. During the Snap Partner Summit held recently in Santa Monica, California, the company announced a series of exciting AI tool upgrades aimed at providing creators with a more powerful and intuitive content creation experience. The most notable new feature is 'Easy Lens.' This innovative tool allows creators to easily generate Snap's unique augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, and characters through simple English descriptions.

At the recently concluded Snap Partner Summit, Snap (the parent company of Snapchat) unveiled an exciting new feature - 'Easy Lens'. This feature is fantastic as it can transform users' simple English descriptions into Snap's augmented reality (AR) lenses. Simply enter your desired effect in Snap's developer platform, Lens Studio, and Easy Lens will automatically generate it for you using generative AI models.

The police in New Mexico, USA, used AI-generated images of a virtual 14-year-old girl to lure sexual offenders, aiming to investigate the protection of children from sexual exploitation on the Snapchat platform. This method has sparked discussions on ethics, legality, and AI ethics, particularly regarding the legality of AI-generated images, privacy rights, and consent issues. Legal experts point out that creating and using deepfake child sexual abuse material is illegal and concerning. Moreover, the requirement for real children's images as training datasets for AI-generated images raises concerns about children.

In Q2 2024, global AI PC shipments reached 8.8 million units, accounting for 14% of total PC shipments, showcasing rapid market growth. AI PCs include desktops and laptops equipped with advanced chipsets, such as NPUs. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chips and Copilot+PC signify a new stage in AI PC development. It is expected that shipments will significantly increase in the second half of the year, with total shipments for 2024 projected to reach 44 million units, and it is anticipated to exceed 100 million units by 2025. Apple leads the AI PC market with its Mac products.

Snap and Meta are set to unveil their latest AR glasses prototypes next month, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel releasing the fifth-generation Spectacles on September 17, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg showcasing the AR glasses codenamed Orion on September 25. However, due to the current immaturity of AR technology, neither pair of glasses will be available for public sale. Snap will distribute a small production run through partners and developers.

Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 7s Gen3 processor is designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to mid-range smartphones. It supports advanced language models such as Baichuan-7B and Llama2, with notable performance improvements: CPU, GPU, and AI performance enhanced by 20%, 40%, and 30%, respectively, while power consumption is reduced by 12%. This processor will be deployed in new devices by brands like Realme, Samsung, Sharp, and Xiaomi, marking a new upgrade in performance and AI applications in the mid-range smartphone market.

After years of industry downturn, Lenovo has achieved profit growth for the second consecutive quarter by seizing opportunities in artificial intelligence. The company's net profit reached $243 million, a 38% year-over-year increase, far exceeding analysts' expectations. Total revenue grew to $15.45 billion, a 20% increase. This growth was mainly attributed to strong performance in the computing, infrastructure, and services sectors. Lenovo also achieved 'market-outperforming growth' by launching AI-powered PCs and smart devices, as well as expanding in the AI infrastructure sector.