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Criticizing the Chinese authorities is dangerous for business. Jack Ma lost half of his fortune due to conflict with Beijing
Billionaire Jack Ma’s conflict with Beijing not only led to his disappearance for more than 2 years. It also caused his wealth to be halved.
On Friday, China’s central bank announced a $985 million fine for Ant Group, a fintech giant co-founded by Ma. As of Wednesday, July 12, Ma’s net worth is about $30 billion, half of what he had in October 2020.
Alibaba shares in New York rose 1.4% to $91.79 a share on Tuesday, but are down about 70% from their October 2020 peak. Meanwhile, Ant Group is currently valued at around $78.5 billion, after being valued at $315 billion before the aborted IPO.
Ma angered Chinese authorities after an October 2020 speech in which he criticized China’s financial regulatory system and said Chinese banks were operating with a “pawnshop” mentality. His words prompted regulatory scrutiny of his businesses, including Alibaba and Ant, and prosecution of those companies in China.
This March, Ma returned to the school he founded in his hometown of Hangzhou in eastern China. In April, he was appointed an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong. In May, Ma took up a visiting professorship in Tokyo.

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Current update of the OpenAI chatbot: ChatGPT can now “Google” in real time

The American company OpenAI has announced the release of a useful update to its generative artificial intelligence system, ChatGPT. According to the official blog, ChatGPT can search the web for the latest information, suggesting answers from “relevant and authoritative” sources.
The search is performed in the Microsoft Bing search engine. After receiving a response from the network, the user can click on the link and check the information provided. The feature, called Browse with Bing, is currently only open to those with Plus and Enterprise subscriptions, but the company says it will soon make it available to “all users.”
As the developers note, OpenAI has lifted the temporary restriction on data – previously, ChatGPT users had access to the amount of information until September 2021. Now the ChatGPT search engine can freely search for the latest information.
As a reminder, OpenAI added the ability to browse the internet to its iOS app ChatGPT at the end of June 2023, but quickly removed it. The reason turned out to be that users quickly found a loophole – the chatbot could be “persuaded” to provide paid content by entering the full URL.
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GeForce RTX 4090 is ready for Counter-Strike 2. The video card produces 543 FPS in the game

Almost immediately after the release of Counter-Strike 2, Nvidia explained what to expect in the game when using 3D cards from the GeForce RTX 40 line.
With Full HD resolution and maximum graphics settings, the flagship of the line – GeForce RTX 4090 – produces 543 FPS. Nvidia assured that the GeForce RTX 4090 in Counter-Strike 2 is 4.5 times faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 and 2.9 times faster than the GeForce RTX 2080.
At the other end is the GeForce RTX 4060, but even it provides more than 200 FPS under the same conditions. The performance gap between the GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is quite small, unlike other models in the line.
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The four years of waiting were worth it. Raspberry Pi 5 introduced, it received a south bridge for the first time

Four years have passed since the release of Raspberry Pi 4, and now Raspberry Pi 5 has been released. The new generation of single-board computer has improved in almost everything, but the price has become slightly higher: the cost of the version with 4 GB of RAM is 60 dollars, the version with 8 GB of RAM is 80 dollars.
The Raspberry Pi 5 hardware platform is based on the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC with four Arm Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz. The creators talk about an increase in computing power by 2-3 times, compared to the Raspberry Pi 4. The GPU of the new computer is VideoCore VII with a frequency of 800 MHz and support for OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2. The creators note a “significant increase in GPU performance” compared to its predecessor.
For the first time, the RP1 south bridge, which is responsible for connecting peripherals, appeared in the Raspberry Pi Foundation device. According to the developers, it “provides a qualitative improvement in the performance and functionality of peripheral devices.”
Raspberry Pi 5 received two MIPI transceivers with a bandwidth of 1.5 Gbps, which allows you to connect two cameras or two displays. There is also one PCI Express 2.0 line, however, to realize its speed potential you cannot do without connecting an M.2 HAT adapter.
The Raspberry Pi 5 receives power via the USB-C port. There are integrated Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac adapters, an SD card slot, two HDMI ports (4K 60 fps displays are supported), two USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, RJ-45.
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