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European Central Bank: It plans to stop reinvesting in the Emergency Anti-epidemic Bond Purchase Program (PEPP) by the end of 2024. Continue to reduce the emergency anti-epidemic bond purchase program (PEPP) by 7.5 billion euros per month.ByteDance and Peking University set up the Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software. On the evening of December 12th, the signing ceremony of Peking University-ByteDance Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software and the academic seminar of "Intelligent Software Technology and Ecology for Large Model" were held in Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University. Experts attending the meeting agreed that it is of great significance to promote the deep integration of Industry-University-Research to promote the breakthrough of core technologies of artificial intelligence. The establishment of this joint laboratory is an important milestone in collaborative innovation between schools and enterprises, and will jointly promote the technological innovation and application development of large-scale model system software based on the advantages of both parties. (Sina Technology)Zhongding Co., Ltd. established a subsidiary of Robotics Technology. Tianyancha APP shows that Anhui Ruisibo Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Xia Yingsong as its legal representative and a registered capital of 50 million yuan. Its business scope includes: research and development of intelligent robots; Intelligent robot sales; Industrial robot manufacturing; Industrial robot sales and so on. Tianyancha's equity penetration shows that the company is wholly owned by Zhongding.

US media: "Ukraine provides drones to Syrian opposition forces." According to Reuters's December 11th quote from Washington post, a few weeks before Syrian opposition forces launched an offensive and overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian militants obtained about 150 drones and other secret support from Ukrainian intelligence personnel. Washington post quoted unnamed sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities as saying that four to five weeks ago, Ukrainian intelligence agencies sent about 20 drone operators and about 150 drones to help the "Syrian Sham Liberation Army". According to the report, the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that the Syrian opposition armed forces obtained drones from Ukraine and received operational training. The Russian Foreign Ministry did not provide evidence. At that time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that it "categorically" denied this statement. (Reference message)In the direction of pan-consumption, there were more than 50 stocks with daily limit, and the concept of big consumption continued to strengthen. Retail, food, home, ice and snow industries and other branches set off a wave of daily limit, and Zhongbai Group, Youhao Group, Huifa Food, Panda Dairy, Wole Home and Meike Home exceeded 50 stocks with daily limit.Guoxuan Hi-Tech: It plans to invest a total of 2.514 billion euros to build new energy battery production bases in Slovakia and Morocco. Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that the company plans to invest in Slovakia with its own and self-raised funds to build high-performance lithium batteries and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.234 billion euros. On the same day, it was announced that the company plans to invest in Morocco with its own and self-raised funds to build a high-performance lithium battery and supporting projects with an annual output of 20GWh, with a total investment of no more than 1.28 billion euros.

The Baltic dry bulk freight index fell 4.61% to 1055 points.Analyst: The interest rate of the European Central Bank will be pushed to the low end of the neutral range. Marchel Alexandrovich, an economist at Saltmarsh Economics, said that the European Central Bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points again, which is the fourth time in this easing cycle. The monetary policy statement reiterated that the Committee would not commit to a specific interest rate path in advance. However, the new forecast shows that the core inflation rate is 1.9% in 2026 and 2027, which indicates that interest rates may continue to push to the low end of the neutral range.According to a poll released by The Israel Times recently, 66% of the Israeli respondents believe that Netanyahu should leave politics, and only 27% of the people support him.