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JD Opens Large‑Scale Federated Learning Platform (9NFL)

JD announced the open‑source release of its 9NFL federated learning platform, designed for marketing recommendation and built to protect data privacy while enabling collaborative data sharing across partners.

eSIM Market to Double by 2025

Strategy Analytics predicts that IoT eSIM sales will exceed $3.26 billion by 2025, with over 200 operators already supporting the technology.

Nasdaq Plans Full Cloud Migration in 10 Years

Nasdaq’s CTO announced that all of its markets will move to public cloud within the next decade, aiming for faster scaling and operational efficiency.

China’s 5G Users Surpass 110 Million, 600 k Base Stations Planned

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology reports over 110 million 5G users and a target of 600,000 base stations by the end of the year.

AI Deep‑Fake Cases Rise in Beijing Internet Court

The court notes a surge in AI‑generated face‑swap infringements, making portrait‑right violations the top personal‑rights disputes.

Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center Shows 1/8 Failure Rate

Two years after deployment, the submerged data center recovered from Scotland exhibits a failure rate only one‑eighth of comparable land‑based facilities.

IBM Open‑Sources A2O POWER Processor Core

Through the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM released the A2O POWER core, a 64‑bit, out‑of‑order, multi‑threaded design suited for AI, autonomous driving, and security workloads.

CoCon: Text‑Guided Controllable Text Generation

The paper introduces CoCon, a model that uses text as control variables for generation, built on unsupervised GPT‑2 training and achieving efficient multi‑aspect control.

VD‑BERT Sets New State‑of‑the‑Art in Visual Dialog

VD‑BERT jointly encodes visual and textual information, delivering top performance on the VisDial benchmark for both discriminative and generative approaches.