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Zhongzhiwei Technology completed tens of millions of yuan financing. On December 12th, Nanjing Zhongzhiwei Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhongzhiwei Technology) completed tens of millions of yuan B1 financing, which was jointly invested by Guangzhou Baiyun Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Hongfeng Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. This round of financing funds will be used for iterative application of AI+ network security products, breakthrough in key industry landing scenarios and market channel construction. Zhongzhiwei Technology is a solution provider of "city-level data+digital security operation", and has launched a series of new platform-based network security products around AISecOps (artificial intelligence security operation).Wal-Mart Financial Technology Company is valued at $2.5 billion, and retailers inject a lot of cash.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)

Bank of America Securities lowered the Adobe target price from $640.00 to $605.00.The European Central Bank gave up the idea of keeping interest rates "restrictive".Korean media: The director of the South Korean Police Department who was arrested in an emergency for "civil strife" was sent to the hospital due to the deterioration of his health. According to Yonhap News Agency's latest news from the police on the 12th, Zhao Zhihao, the director of the South Korean Police Department who was arrested in an emergency on suspicion of "civil strife" in the early morning of the 11th, has been sent to the hospital for treatment due to the deterioration of his health. (World Wide Web)

Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.Russia's central bank's gold and foreign exchange reserves reached US$ 614.4 billion in the week of December 6, with the previous value of US$ 614.1 billion.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.