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GM will withdraw from the driverless taxi business, and the Cruise self-driving car division of GM will withdraw from the driverless taxi business. According to a statement on Tuesday, Cruise and GM's technical team will be combined to focus on developing autonomous driving and advanced driver safety technology for GM's future sales models. GM said that it will no longer provide funds for the development of self-driving taxis "considering the large amount of time and resources needed to expand its business scale and the increasingly fierce competition in the self-driving taxi market". The company said that giving up the development of self-driving taxis will save it more than $1 billion in annual costs.OpenAI released the ChatGPT built-in tool Canvas. On December 11th, OpenAI launched the fourth day of technical live broadcast and released the latest function Canvas. According to reports, Canvas is directly built into ChatGPT, providing a separate window, which is mainly used for programming and writing tasks, providing opinions, reviewing and executing specific functions, and providing more detailed services. Simply put, Canvas is equivalent to a built-in Agent to help and guide ChatGPT to make better content generation and modification, and it is automatically triggered.Asian Development Bank: Reduce India's growth forecast from 7.0% to 6.5% in 2024 and from 7.2% to 7.0% in 2025.

Millay: Argentina seeks to reach a free trade agreement with the United States next year.More support policies for specialization and innovation are brewing. According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, up to now, China has cultivated a total of 14,600 "little giant" enterprises with specialization and innovation, and more than 140,000 small and medium-sized enterprises with specialization and innovation. Over 80% of the "Little Giant" enterprises are located in strategic emerging industrial chains such as integrated circuits and aerospace, and the number of enterprises in future industry-related fields such as artificial intelligence and low-altitude economy is nearly 5,000. The reporter was informed that the relevant departments will study and formulate guidance on building a mechanism to promote the development and growth of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, issue guidance on cultivating high-quality enterprises, continue to increase support for the cultivation of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the "expansion, quality improvement and strong chain" of specialized and innovative groups. (Economic Information Daily)During the year, there were 461 new indices, and the index investment fever continued to climb. On December 10th, in order to meet the investment demand of diversified indices, CSI Index Co., Ltd. officially released five new indices, including CSI 1000 Growth Index, CSI 1000 Value Index, CSI 2000 Growth Index, CSI 2000 Value Index and CSI 1000 Quality Balance Strategy Index. With the "listing" of the above five indexes, the number of newly-issued indexes reached 461 during the year, covering categories such as strategy, style, scale, industry, theme and other fixed-income indexes; Related index asset classes include stocks, fixed income, funds and futures. At the same time, the secondary market, this year, the heat of indexed investment is also high. Looking forward to the future, with the continuous vigorous growth of market demand and unabated heat, and the precise guidance and strong support from the supervisory level, the indexed investment ecology will become more and more perfect. (Securities Daily)

SpaceX is valued at about $350 billion due to internal stock sales. According to an email sent to employees seen by the media, SpaceX and its investors have agreed to acquire the company's common stock of up to $1.25 billion at a price of $185 per share. This transaction values the rocket and satellite manufacturer owned by elon musk at about $350 billion. The memo said that the price of $185 per share was much higher than the valuation of $112 less than three months ago. The memorandum was further confirmed by insiders. According to the memo, only SpaceX offered to buy up to $500 million in common stock.New World Development sold Artisan Lab in Kowloon, Hong Kong for HK$ 620 million. Sing Tao Daily quoted an unnamed insider as saying that New World Development sold Artisan Lab in San Po Kong, Kowloon for HK$ 620 million. This 22-storey building was completed in 2022, with a floor area of about 120,000 square feet.13 shares registered today, Hengxuan Technology, Xiamen Bank and Deshi shares have the strongest dividends. According to the statistics of the equity distribution plan of listed companies, 13 A shares registered today. Among them, 13 shares intend to pay dividends. In terms of dividends, 13 stocks paid dividends in date of record on December 11th. Hengxuan Technology, Xiamen Bank and Deshi Co., Ltd. have the strongest dividends, with dividends of 7.60 yuan for every 10 shares, 1.5 yuan and 1.2 yuan respectively. In addition, there are 5 shares that have thrown out dividend payout plans, among which Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, Taotao Auto Industry and Hite Bio have the strongest dividend payout, with dividends of 12.3 yuan for every 10 shares, 5 yuan and 1.3 yuan respectively.