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3228152	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者岑健樂）受惠關稅戰緩和，以及中國經濟穩定增長，港股今年在經歷年初DeepSeek橫空出世大幅抽升後，在4月份重新起步，更打破「五窮六絕」的魔咒，實現「五不窮六不絕兼七翻身」連升3個月，並在7月24日見全年高位25,735點，較去年底的20,059點及今年1月13日的最低位18,671點，分別升28.3%及37.8%。</p> <p>中央「反內卷」成股市焦點</p> <p>大市8月份踏入企業中期業績公布高峰期，企業業績會對港股短期表現有一定影響，但近期更影響大市的，是中央「反內卷」的力度，昨日國家發改委在北京的記者會上就談及「內卷式」競爭問題，強調在新興領域堅決制止盲目跟風、一哄而上，在傳統領域要防止低水平、同質化重複建設，加力破除「內卷式」競爭，下一步將堅持依法依規，綜合整治低價無序競爭行為，明確治理措施，引導企業科學定價、理性定價。</p> <p>昨日三大平台亦同時發文，表示堅決抵制「零元購」等惡性補貼。消息對平台股影響各異，阿里巴巴（9988）收市升1.04%。美團（3690）升0.49%。京東集團（9618）則跌0.16%。騰訊（0700）亦跌2.73%。</p> <p>金利豐證券研究部執行董事黃德几昨對香港文匯報表示，在樂觀的情況下，假如多間企業中期業績表現良好，加上中央明確表態「反內卷」後，月內再推出更多措施支持內地消費與經濟增長，將有利大市投資氣氛回暖，推動恒指於8月再度挑戰年內高位25,735點；至於在較悲觀的情況下，由於港股年內已累積不少升幅，因此不排除短期會獲利回吐，恒指月內較大的支持位將在23,500點。</p> <p>連升3個月現獲利回吐盤</p> <p>經歷3個月連升後，港股已累積不少升幅，大市在上周後段出現獲利回吐現象。恒指昨日8月開局，大市以全日最位24,507點收市，跌265點或1.07%，成交約2,547億元。國指最終收報8,804點，跌78點或0.88%。科指收報5,397點，跌55點或1.02%。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 五不窮六不絕七翻身港股8月料再試高位 - 財經 - 香港文匯網	查看 956	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:25:54 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228151	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者周紹基）施羅德基金昨日稱，自4月初以來的A股及港股強勢，主要得益於關稅影響少於預期，令全球經濟陰霾正逐步減弱。龐大的內地居民資產配置需求，或將長期提振對優質股的需求。信銀國際亦指，A股與港股中長線具投資價值，當中醫藥板塊會繼續受投資者追捧，並有望成為今年表現最突出的板塊。</p> <p>內地科技股下半年料向好</p> <p>施羅德注意到，自2021年來，內地居民的存款和貸款之間的差距正不斷拉大，意味居民的資產配置需求相當巨大。參考歷史，該基金認為，估值具吸引力的優質股是好選擇，並將會大量吸納資金。</p> <p>對於下半年A股市場，施羅德基金副總經理、首席投資官安昀指出，全球資本市場正逐步好轉，風險偏好和結構性行情上，都帶動了內地股市表現。科技業存在結構性機遇，鑒於近期內地算法取得突破、部分芯片出口管制放鬆，為內地市場注入活力，國產模型迭代加速，投資焦點正轉向AI應用方面。另外，擁有龐大用戶基礎的平台型公司，仍有機會通過創新應用，實現更理想價值，這將為投資者提供一個估值相當理性的「新戰場」。</p> <p>至於港股方面，施羅德同樣持積極觀點，安昀認為，港股市場優質公司的數量，在最近兩年持續增加；且內地政策層面對香港的一貫支持，讓許多優質A股赴港上市，將有效提升港股的質量和深度。</p> <p>信銀國際表示，內地第二季經濟增長優於預期，信貸活動有回暖跡象，使資金早前進一步流向實體經濟及股市。近期股市在基本面改善下升幅顯著，不排除市場要稍為整固後才可再出現新方向。該行指出，今年港股市場吸引不少「北水」流入，「港股通」年初至今淨買入額突破去年全年。在資金仍然充裕下，港股中長線仍具投資價值。</p> <p>不過，昨日A股與港股都向下，其中滬指跌0.4%報3,559點，深指跌0.2%報10,991點，滬深300指數更跌0.5%報4,054點。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 施羅德：內地資產配置需求利好優質股 - 財經 - 香港文匯網	查看 906	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:26:06 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228150	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者周紹基）港交所發表優化首次公開招股市場定價及公開市場規定的諮詢總結，並表示就持續公眾持股量的建議，展開進一步諮詢。立法會金融服務界議員李惟宏昨日回應指，今次的諮詢總結優化了原建議，平衡了零售投資者與機構投資者參與新股發行的權益。</p> <p>李惟宏指出，港交所在新股回補機制中，廣泛接納了業界建議作出修訂，公開認購部分回撥百分比較原建議有所增加，亦保留了基石投資者6個月禁售期規定，並進一步研究在港建立場外交易市場的可行性。</p> <p>保留基石投資者半年禁售期合適</p> <p>他認為，港交所決定保留現有的6個月禁售期規定，將可以維持投資者對發售行動的承諾。原建議是放寬基石投資者6個月禁售期規定，讓交易更具靈活性，但李惟宏表示，理解市場對此有所保留，因為不希望基石投資者過早放售有關股份，對股價造成波動。</p> <p>就場外交易市場方面，港交所的諮詢總結顯示，多數回應者都支持在港建立「場外交易(OTC)」市場，雖然港交所指會繼續與各方持份者一同研究此事的可行性，但未有公布進一步行動。李惟宏期望，港交所能盡快建立OTC市場機制，以滿足市場需求，幫助上市公司建立更完善的退市機制，亦能保障投資者權益，讓他們有一個公開平台，處理退市公司的股份。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 李惟宏冀盡快建立OTC市場機制 - 財經 - 香港文匯網	查看 653	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:26:18 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228149	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者蔡競文）就港交所公布優化新股市場定價等新機制，民建聯昨表示，有關措施將有利於滿足全球不同行業和不同規模發行人需求，提升香港資本市場的競爭力。</p> <p>助企業靈活進行資本管理</p> <p>民建聯立法會議員陳仲尼認為，新的改革措施建議，可讓發行人，尤其是超大市值公司無須持續維持上市時所訂的25%最低公眾持股量門檻，便利公司在上市後有更大靈活性去進行更佳的資本管理，包括提升公司每股價值的股份回購或收購等交易，因此是合適的。但他亦指，為了避免剝奪股東退場機會，而且發行人要在短時間內恢復其公眾持股量也具很大挑戰性，因此，建議當局研究應否改變現行一旦公眾持股量低於15%的上市公司須被停牌的做法。</p> <p>立法會議員黃俊碩亦表示，由於其他海外主要證券交易所採納的持續公眾持股量等規定和上市要求多較香港寬鬆，他相信這兩項措施將有利提升香港作為國際間主要上市集資地點的吸引力，從而有助吸引更多海外優質企業來港作新股上市或第二上市。</p> <p>現時新股分配機制已沿用30年</p> <p>至於新股上市回撥機制的改革，有關機制設立於1998年，距今已經有近30年歷史，目前的新股發行 / IPO集資規模，已較1990年代後期 (即回補機制面世時) 高出5至10倍，而市場亦已經由散戶投資者佔超過一半市場份額，逐漸演變為現時由機構投資者主導市場交易。與此同時，與其他國際交易所（包括美國、英國及新加坡）相比，香港是唯一設有強制回補機制的市場。</p> <p>因此，民建聯認為，市場改革以配合香港股票市場長遠發展是刻不容緩，新框架兼顧發行人靈活性與投資者參與公平性，避免此前機制下單方面傾斜配售導致的流動性失衡問題；靈活的份額分配將可以適應科技初創、傳統巨頭等不同企業需求，尤其利好中概股回歸及海外企業尋求亞太地區的跨境融資。民建聯期望新框架落實以後，將可以繼續鞏固香港作為區內IPO市場首選地的優勢，並配合香港「產業升級轉型」戰略。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 議員：提升香港資本市場競爭力 - 財經 - 香港文匯網	查看 942	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:26:29 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228148	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2302e4b0e62e725ba445.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●港交所優化首次公開招股(IPO)市場定價及公開市場規定下周一生效。資料圖片 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2303e4b0e62e725ba449.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> 優化首次公開招股規定部分措施 <p>港交所(0388)昨公布優化首次公開招股(IPO)市場定價及公開市場規定諮詢總結，新規定下周一生效。新規定包括國際配售最低比例調整、發行人可選擇公開認購有沒有回補機制等，同時續就街貨流通比例諮詢市場。港交所指出，現時港股近90%的市場交投來自機構投資者，新機制更能平衡散戶與大戶的利益，避免公眾持股少而導致價格扭曲，新規讓港股市場定價機制更趨成熟，可增強國際資本信心，鞏固本港全球主要IPO市場的地位。 ●香港文匯報記者周紹基</p> <p>今次上市規定的主要變化，在發售及定價機制方面，國際配售最低比例由原建議的50%，下調至40%。而為保持靈活性，港交所容許上市申請人在分配機制上「二揀一」，分為「機制A」及「機制B」。當公開認購部分超額認購倍數逾100倍時，在機制A中，原建議公開認購部分最大回撥百分比，由20%上調至35%。而機制B則要求發行人事先選定一個分配至公開認購部分的比例，下限為發售股份的10%，上限為60%，並無回補機制。</p> <p>機制A回撥上限35% B不設回補</p> <p>在上調定價方面，港交所表示，經考慮諮詢過程中回應人士所述的實際困難，將不會實施建議的上調定價靈活性機制。此外，諮詢總結保留現有基石投資者6個月禁售期規定，並規定發行人符合最低公眾持股量及自由流通量規定。新制將於8月4日生效。</p> <p>今次是本港IPO市場定價機制27年來，首次作出改變，港交所認為，新的新股定價及股份分配建立將更靈活、清晰及透明。今次的諮詢收到1,253份意見，當中採納大部分建議。港交所上市主管伍潔鏇昨指出，今次改革能平衡不同投資者需求。現時本港新股的交易規模，比20多年前大5至10倍，且市場有近90%的市場交投，均是來自機構投資者。因此，在制定規則時，必須考慮機構投資者的參與度。</p> <p>有需要確保機構投資者分配比例</p> <p>她補充，配售部分的機構投資者在定價過程中，常與發行人討價還價，認為若在新股定價機制中無足夠的定價者，定價可能不夠準確，因此需要引入適當規則作調整，以確保機構投資者、全球投資者及散戶，在新股發行股份取得平衡的分配比例。港交所希望透過今次改革，令香港發展成為國際資本的主要目的地。</p> <p>伍潔鏇表示，正與市場持份者及監管機構合作，期望就提升上市制度整體競爭力諮詢市場意見，預計數個月後正式進行諮詢。</p> <p>另外，港交所亦就持續公眾持股量的建議，展開進一步諮詢，諮詢期將於10月1日結束。就初始公眾持股量及自由流通量，港交所針對不同發行人、其市值有一系列規定。包括提出建議設「替代門檻」，其中諮詢建議A+H發行人的公眾持有H股，須達10億港元市值或5%公眾持股量。非內地註冊成立的公司及無其他上市股份的H股公司替代的門檻，則改為10億港元市值及10%公眾持股量。</p> <p>公司根據市值擬設不同街貨比例</p> <p>此外，有關諮詢還包括：建議就不同市值的上市公司，設有不同水平的公眾持股比例；日後上市公司不會僅因公眾持股量不足而停牌，但會加上股票標記；若公眾持股量不足的公司未能於18個月(GEM：12個月)內，恢復規定的持股量則仍會被除牌；以及要求上市公司增加月度報告，以確認它們的持股量是否充足。</p> <p>伍潔鏇指出，現時的新股市場非常活躍，正在處理中的申請數目更創下紀錄。這次改革的目的是提升新股定價及分配機制，希望盡快實施新規，讓更多正在申請上市的企業可以受惠，而不至於錯失發行新股的時機。她相信，進一步優化《上市規則》中的這些規定，相關改動將令香港與全球國際標準接軌，能充分保障股東權益，並增加香港市場的競爭力。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 港優化IPO分配機制平衡散戶大戶利益港交所：續就街貨流通比例諮詢市場 - 財經 - 香港文匯網	查看 1959	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:26:42 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228147	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d231ce4b0e62e725ba44d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●兩位國際知名調酒師主理的酒吧已在香港蘇豪區正式開業。 <p>香港文匯報訊再有海外酒吧落戶香港。特區政府投資推廣署昨日宣布，兩位國際知名調酒師Lorenzo Antinori和Simone Caporale主理的Montana酒吧，已在香港中環的蘇豪區正式開業。特區政府投資推廣署助理署長劉智元表示，支持Montana落戶香港，並為此感到很高興，指香港持續吸引世界級人才及具創新精神的企業，Montana的開業，正體現出香港的餐飲與款待業多元化且充滿活力。</p> <p>劉智元表示，Antinori和Caporale是全球調酒界的大師級調酒師，兩人選擇在香港開設Montana，進一步鞏固香港作為世界級餐飲及夜生活熱點的美譽。曾任四季酒店Argo首席調酒師的Lorenzo Antinori，之前在中環必列者士街創立的Bar Leone，榮獲今年的「亞洲最佳酒吧」及去年「世界最佳50酒吧」第二名，而Simone Caporale主理的巴塞隆納酒吧Sips，去年高居「世界最佳50酒吧」第三名，兩人今次合作主理Montana酒吧，為雞尾酒愛好者和潮流達人帶來獨特體驗，並為香港夜生活迎來調酒新時代。</p> <p>讚港助啟發創新意念</p> <p>Lorenzo Antinori表示：「香港一直是啟發創新意念和創意的城市。我們選擇在香港開設Montana酒吧，是向香港這個充滿活力的城市致敬，我們希望在香港推廣全球雞尾酒文化的精髓，並注入本地獨特的色彩。我們很期待能在香港展開這個令人興奮的旅程。」</p> <p>Simone Caporale補充：「Montana酒吧代表了我們在尋求提升酒吧體驗的新篇章。香港的活力和多元化激發我們的潛能突破界限，創造真正非凡的體驗。我們很自豪能為香港蓬勃的酒吧行業作出貢獻。」</p> <p>Lorenzo Antinori又強調，Montana酒吧不僅是一間酒吧，更是一種體驗。該酒吧位於香港市中心，提供精心設計的雞尾酒，將傳統與創新融為一體，其環境氣氛設計反映香港的國際化精神，為聚會和慶典提供完美的場地。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 兩國際調酒師在港開業投資署：體現港餐飲業多元活力 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1130	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:08 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228146	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者嚴鍇華、黃子晉）香港特區政府日前發布《香港營商環境報告》，透過數據詳細介紹香港最新發展和優勢。香港各政團和立法會議員均表示，香港營商環境數據亮麗，彰顯香港作為國際金融中心和商業貿易樞紐的競爭力，有助投資者清晰掌握香港不同領域的新動態與機遇。他們呼籲全球投資者把握香港「一國兩制」的制度優勢和國際金融中心的獨特優勢，抓住香港的發展紅利，加快來港投資開業，共同開拓無限商機。</p> <p>印證港保持強勁競爭力增國際社會信心</p> <p>經民聯表示，報告詳實呈現香港在金融、貿易、航運、創科及法律服務中心的領先地位，印證香港在目前紛繁複雜的國際形勢中仍保持強勁競爭力，有助增強國際社會對香港的信心。香港憑藉「背靠祖國、聯通世界」的獨特優勢，將繼續發揮其不可替代的作用，為全球投資者提供廣闊機遇，呼籲全球投資者把握香港的發展紅利，善用香港作為國際金融中心的優勢和全球領先的投資環境，及早投資香港，開拓香港及大中華市場。</p> <p>香港旅遊發展局主席林建岳表示，報告清楚闡述香港坐擁背靠祖國、聯通國際的獨特優勢，對香港吸引大型會議、展覽及獎勵活動落戶香港，吸引高增值會展旅客；開拓具潛力的中東和東盟市場，加強人文交流；推動盛事活動在港舉行，提升旅客體驗以至聯同大灣區城市推動「一程多站」聯遊，發揮優勢互補等都起着非常關鍵作用。旅發局會充分用好、說好香港的獨特優勢，推出不同宣傳吸引旅客來港，推動旅遊業發展。</p> <p>立法會議員吳秋北表示，香港國安法實施後，安全穩定的環境使國際資本信心回升，金融市場表現亮眼。依託「內聯外通」優勢，香港既是國家對外開放的「超級聯繫人」，又能藉助國家發展機遇培育創科等新質生產力。正如報告所強調，在國家後盾支撐下，把握科技與區域合作機遇，香港定能開闢新增長點，在做大蛋糕中持續改善民生，於挑戰中書寫發展新篇章。</p> <p>立法會議員譚岳衡表示，報告是向海內外「說好香港故事」的重要舉措，系統地向國際社會說明香港的營商現狀和優勢，包括股市穩步上揚、重點企業投資增長，以及人才計劃的豐碩成果。這些資訊有助投資者清晰掌握香港不同領域的新動態與機遇，進一步增強本地及全球投資者對香港的信心。</p> <p>立法會議員黃國表示，報告有助世界各地商界及投資者更了解香港在「一國兩制」下內聯外通的獨特優勢，以及作為「超級聯繫人」和「超級增值人」的功能。縱使面對複雜多變的外圍環境，經歷升級轉型的適應期，但在「一國兩制」護航下，在國家發展戰略引領下，機遇必然大於挑戰。</p> <p>報告凸顯港新發展優勢漸形成</p> <p>立法會議員陳勇表示，報告充分展現香港核心競爭力，並凸顯新發展優勢正逐步形成，經濟穩步向好。儘管外圍環境充滿挑戰，但香港憑藉「一國兩制」的制度優勢及融入國家發展大局的重大機遇，正積極在大灣區建設與國際競爭中尋求創新突破。堅信只要團結一致，香港定能克服挑戰，把握機遇，開創全新局面。</p> <p>立法會議員鄧家彪表示，香港的獨特優勢是「一國兩制」，香港是全國最國際化的城市，制度銜接世界，享有國家優勢和國際優勢。同時間，國家是全球穩定和平的維護者、世界經濟增長的促進者和全面科技創新的貢獻者，香港只要緊貼世界變化和配合國家戰略，香港必定大有可為，經濟和社會同樣受惠。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 港營商環境數據亮麗議員籲投資者抓機遇拓商機 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1482	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:22 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228145	无图 <p>阿贊·本·阿卜杜拉·阿爾古哈伊爾（Azzan bin Abdulla Al Ghurair）是阿卜杜拉·本·阿哈邁德·阿爾古哈伊爾（Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair）的兒子。</p> <p>阿卜杜拉·阿爾古哈伊爾是阿聯酋著名銀行Mashreqbank 的創始人之一，在阿聯酋銀行業的發展中起到了至關重要的作用，被視為該國經濟發展的先驅之一。阿卜杜拉的商業帝國還擴展到了建築領域，參與了包括世界最高建築哈利法塔在內的許多迪拜標誌性專案。</p> <p>阿贊的哥哥，阿卜杜勒·阿齊茲·阿爾古哈伊爾（Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair），同樣是家族企業中的重要人物。阿卜杜勒·阿齊茲是 Mashreqbank 的首席執行官，也是阿爾古哈伊爾集團的核心⼈物，阿爾古哈伊爾集團在銀行、投資和房地產等領域都有廣泛的涉足。他被認為是阿聯酋領先的商業領袖之一，延續着家族在該地區的成功和創新。</p> <p>阿贊·本·阿卜杜拉·阿爾古哈伊爾是R Capital的主要股東，該公司是一家在阿聯酋運營的投資公司。R Capital 由拉希德·阿卜杜拉·阿爾哈吉領導，在阿贊的參與下，該公司參與了多個地區性的投資機會和商業專案。阿贊的商業頭腦和領導力幫助鞏固了他在阿爾古哈伊爾家族龐大商業網絡中的地位。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 【話你知】銀行世家出身家族曾參建哈利法塔 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 672	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:28 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228144	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2336e4b0e62e725ba451.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●阿贊的中國之行走訪多地，他大讚中國過去數十年的驚人發展速度和人民熱情，並希望兩國未來能在文化藝術交流、中醫藥推廣及先進水利技術方面有合作。受訪者供圖 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2337e4b0e62e725ba455.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●阿贊接受本報專訪時強調，香港在深化中國與中東合作中扮演着關鍵的橋樑角色，香港的國際化環境、金融活力、穆斯林友好設施等均具有獨特吸引力。香港文匯報記者黃宇威攝 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2338e4b0e62e725ba459.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <p>伴隨中國與中東國家經貿往來日益深化，中東正成為香港及內地拓展合作的新興重要市場。阿聯酋著名商人、阿爾古哈伊爾家族的重要成員阿贊·本·阿卜杜拉·阿爾古哈伊爾（Azzan bin Abdulla Al Ghurair）近日首次訪問中國內地，並在香港短暫停留。阿贊昨日接受香港文匯報獨家專訪時大讚中國過去數十年的驚人發展速度和人民熱情，並透露此行旨在探尋更多商業機會，希望兩國未來能在文化藝術交流、中醫藥推廣及先進水利技術方面有合作。他特別強調，香港作為國際金融中心，在深化中國與中東合作中扮演着關鍵的橋樑角色，香港的國際化環境、金融活力、穆斯林友好設施及教育品牌，均擁有獨特吸引力。●香港文匯報記者胡恬恬</p> <p>阿贊來自阿聯酋顯赫的阿爾古哈伊爾家族，該家族在銀行、建築等領域影響力深遠。他介紹，此次中國之行走訪了北京、上海、蘇州、廣州等地。他直言，中國的發展速度令人印象深刻，大讚中國的經濟水平在過去二三十年的進步非常驚人。他特別提到中國人民的熱情與對國家的熱愛：「他們熱愛自己的國家，並且樂於分享文化與成就。」</p> <p>盛讚絲綢博物館冀將中國藝術帶到中東</p> <p>談到此行最難忘的經歷，阿贊表示：「我們參觀了絲綢博物館，那裏的藝術品非常精美。我希望能促成一些展覽合作，將中國的藝術帶到中東。」此外，他對中醫藥也表現出濃厚興趣，希望未來能將更多頂級中醫藥引入阿聯酋及海灣地區。</p> <p>阿贊強調，中阿關係源遠流長：「我們與中國的友好關係可追溯至千年前的絲綢之路。如今，雙方的貿易與合作更加緊密。」他以航空為例，指出中國與阿聯酋的直飛航班不斷增加，上海每日就有兩班直航飛機，顯示兩地交流日益頻繁。</p> <p>他提到，阿聯酋國內的學校開始教授中文：「以前，在阿聯酋的學校，八九歲的孩子們學習阿拉伯語和英語，現在孩子們都在學習阿拉伯語和普通話。」</p> <p>對未來的中阿合作，阿贊特別提到水資源管理：「中國在水利工程上的技術非常先進。我們希望與中國、巴基斯坦及海灣國家合作，將水資源引至中東，支持農業發展。」他認為，這類大型項目將成為中阿合作的新亮點，相信中國的技術能將這樣的龐大工程實現。</p> <p>第二次到訪香港的阿贊，對香港的國際化環境亦印象深刻，他說，香港與依舊熱鬧繁榮：「這裏是中國的門戶，金融與商業氛圍非常活躍。香港正在重建世界影響力，我見到許多過去離開香港的金融機構都在重新回到香港，顯示對香港未來發展的信心。」</p> <p>支持港打造「留學」品牌</p> <p>對香港打造「留學香港」品牌，阿贊表示支持：「這裏有世界一流的大學，年輕人來此學習普通話和中國文化，可以為將為未來經商打下基礎。」談到香港如何吸引更多投資，阿贊建議香港進行更多推廣，邀請國際名人來訪，通過社交媒體展示城市的活力。</p> <p>他又評價到香港的穆斯林友好環境，表示香港的清真設施完善，對中東遊客和投資者非常友好。「香港是連接中國與中東的理想地點，我們會探討更多合作機會。」</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 【獨家專訪】香港文匯報獨家專訪阿聯酋商界翹楚大讚中國驚人發展速度擔當中阿橋樑港國際化具獨特魅力 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1940	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:33 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228143	无图 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者文森）香港特區政府運輸署昨日公布，為便利市民更有彈性地在「港車北上」計劃下出行，粵港兩地政府經商討後同意優化預約出行的安排，由今年9月1日起，逢星期二及三「港車北上」計劃下的車輛，無須預約即可經港珠澳大橋前往廣東省，而安排不適用於周一、周四至周日，以及公眾假期等指定日子。香港汽車會永遠榮譽會長李耀培歡迎有關優化安排，認為可便利巿民北上處理要事，還能起着一定分流作用。</p> <p>兩地紅假及假期前夕等例外</p> <p>運輸署發言人昨日指，仍需要預約的指定日子，包括香港或內地的公眾假日以及前夕、港珠澳大橋免收橋費的日子和當局不時公布的日子，這些日子出行均須預約。逢周一、周四至周日亦要繼續預約，計劃的申請資格、程序和抽籤安排維持不變。</p> <p>根據新的優化安排，9月有8個周二及周三無須預約就可以驅車經港珠澳大橋北上，9月30日雖是周二，惟因為當日為「十·一」國慶日的前夕，因此仍要預約才能出行。</p> <p>發言人表示，署方會更新「港車北上」的網頁，列明未來6個月無須預約的日子，並會於每個曆月的首個曆日在「指定日子預約系統」公布下個曆月無須預約的日子，供申請人仔細參閱。署方亦會繼續按現有機制，在每個曆月的第十五個曆日開放下個曆月指定日子以供預約。</p> <p>汽車會：便利巿民北上辦公</p> <p>李耀培對香港文匯報表示，現時不少巿民多在周五至周日驅車北上，周一回程亦多車，周二及周三則較少北上車輛，選擇這兩天無須預約，可方便有要事北上的巿民隨時出行，「有七成人平日上班，主要是在周末才到內地，但亦會有兩三成人可以選擇平日北上，故有關優化安排也有一定分流作用，而一些人在內地有親友或突然因工作等需要到內地，亦可以不用提早預約便能彈性出行。」</p> <p>他期望這只是第一步，日後可以再增加無須預約的日子，「是不是可以再做多一些優化呢？日後是否周四都不用預約呢？當然周五及周六等日子仍需要預約，因大家都是在這段時間北上。但希望粵港澳地政府再做多一些。」</p> <p>李耀培表示，當年底實施「粵車南下」後，將有更多汽車使用港珠澳大橋和在珠海口岸過關，除做好分流外，亦可考慮在假日等高峰期時開放第二個關口通車，紓緩港珠澳大橋的擠塞情況。</p> <p>議員盼運輸署增免預約日子</p> <p>立法會交通事務委員會成員李世榮向香港文匯報表示，車主仍主要選擇周末及假期北上，周二及周三無須預約的分流作用有限，但這可以是一個試點，期望運輸署檢視有關優化安排實施後情況，研究能否再增加無須預約的日子。</p> <p>珠海口岸近期已施工以實施多項措施，包括改造車道擴容以提升通關效率。李世榮認為，實施「粵車南下」後將有更多車輛使用港澳珠大橋，「其實主要也是珠海關口出現擠塞，期望特區政府與內地相關部門商討如何在關口分流港車和粵車，減少擠塞情況。」</p> <p>珠海關口最近進行工程，他期望在擴容方面再多做工夫。有車主反映，珠海關口的車輛過關系統可能是相對較舊，反應時間比深圳灣口岸長，期望有關部門提升過關系統以增加效率。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 「港車北上」安排優化下月1日起逢周二三免預約 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1392	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:52 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228142	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d234ee4b0e62e725ba45d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●京港澳新質生產力發展服務團正式成立。香港文匯報記者蘇雨潤攝 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者蘇雨潤北京報道）2025京港澳青年科學家大會7月31日至8月1日在北京舉行，大會聚焦科技、產業、人才的深度融合，推動京港澳三地科技創新交流不斷深化。與會香港青年科學家代表向香港文匯報記者表示，此次參會收穫頗豐，有機會與內地頂尖科學家深度交流，不僅及時掌握了國家科技發展的最新動態，更對香港在科技領域充分發揮「超級聯繫人」和「超級增值人」作用充滿信心。</p> <p>據悉，本次大會作為2025年中關村論壇專題活動之一，以「同心攜手向新而行」為主題，匯聚京港澳三地青年科學家、企業家、投資機構，搭建多元交流平台，聚焦人工智能、生物醫藥、量子通信、未來航天、新能源等前沿領域，推動科技創新與產業深度融合，進一步釋放京港澳青年科創合作潛力，為加快建設具有全球影響力的國際科技創新中心貢獻動能。</p> <p>北京市委常委、統戰部部長、北京海外聯誼會會長馬駿在開幕式致辭時表示，希望聚焦國家戰略需求，共築科技自立自強新高地；暢通要素流動，共拓新質生產力發展新空間；增進交流交往，共建青年精英成長新生態。北京正加快建設國際科技創新中心，京港澳合作優勢互補、互利共贏，大會推動一批重點項目簽約落地，為三地科創合作注入新動能。</p> <p>孫東：搭建京港創科交流橋樑</p> <p>香港特區政府創新科技及工業局局長孫東向大會發來視頻致辭。他表示，北京和香港都是國家重要的科技創新中心，希望通過今天的大會，搭建起京港兩地創科交流的橋樑，匯聚各路精英，共同為國家強國建設以及加強兩地的科技建設出謀獻策。</p> <p>香港科技大學環境及可持續發展學部研究副教授、香港青年科學家協會常務理事韓偉表示，香港與北京均有建設國際創科中心的戰略定位，兩地可實現優勢互補：香港從事基礎研究的科學家能借助北京的國家大科學裝置突破研究瓶頸；同時，香港作為「超級聯繫人」和「超級增值人」，可助力北京青年科學家利用香港平台將研究成果推向全球，推動內地科研成果「走出去」。</p> <p>「與頂尖學者交流是學術研究過程中非常重要的環節。」香港城市大學商學院副教授，數據分析與商業智能實驗室主任劉峻銘坦言，此次參會並與內地頂尖人才進行深入交流，對香港青年科學家而言是難得的機會，不僅能夠拓寬學術視野，更有助於將內地視角有機融入香港的科創發展大局，實現協同共進。</p> <p>29優質合作項目現場簽約</p> <p>開幕式上，29個優質合作項目現場集中簽約，京港澳三地高校、科創平台、商協會簽署科研數據共享、人才聯合培養等合作協議。同時，京港澳新質生產力發展服務團正式成立，將通過「專業服務+資本賦能」雙輪驅動，常態化服務京港澳三地科創項目與人才成長。</p> <p>北京市港澳創新中心同步啟動，北京市科協、香港北京高校校友聯盟、澳門科技總會等8家單位共建，未來將聚焦科技企業孵化、成果轉化、跨境標準共建，打造京港澳科創資源落地第一站。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 港青科學家赴京交流了解國家科技發展動態 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1506	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:27:58 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228141	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d235de4b0e62e725ba461.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●180度大投影屏幕展示航海歷史。 <p>「國家發展成就系列─無盡探索︰中國的航天、航空及航海」展覽呈現國家的科技創新強勁實力，彰顯中國在全球科技格局中的重要地位。是次展覽科技感十足，180度大投影屏幕展示航海歷史、實體模擬指揮航空母艦的遊戲、按比例縮小的高端戰鬥機及火箭模型、伽馬射線探測裝置、觸屏天體介紹、模擬火星生活……諸多充滿科技元素的展品，令人目不暇給，是科技感爆棚的誠意之作。</p> <p>超大屏幕播出震撼動畫展國家成就</p> <p>初入展覽廳，映入眼簾的是超大屏幕播出震撼的動畫，從中國古代神話的「鯤」，講到海上絲綢之路，再到「雪龍2」號、「奮鬥者」號。許多小朋友在屏幕前席地而坐，聚精會神地感受展覽廳帶來的初體驗。</p> <p>為了讓小朋友在玩樂中增廣見聞，展覽中充滿「自己動手」的機會。想知道在火星的生活是怎樣嗎？可以體驗「我的火星生活」，親自撒下食物種子，準備完善的生命維持系統，包括空氣循環、供水等，在遇到惡劣環境或外部攻擊等緊急情況時，還要到基地避難，直到危機解除。</p> <p>屏幕蘊含巨大的知識量，觀眾若想了解太陽系內所有天體的情況，可以通過觸屏系統，挑選自己想了解的恒星、行星，屏幕便會呈現天體的圖示和詳細介紹。</p> <p>超高能伽馬射線探測裝置亮相</p> <p>更令人意想不到的是，立體伽馬射線圖，就在眼前展示。那是全球最靈敏的超高能伽馬射線探測裝置，通過1：60,000縮小而成的模型，完整記錄了距離約20億光年之遙、史上最亮的伽馬射線暴的爆發全過程。展覽中可以看到光線在四角錐體中呈現，無論在哪個方向，都能看到一模一樣的光線成圖，相信足可令科學愛好者大飽眼福。 ●香港文匯報記者黃子龍</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 【特稿】小朋友體驗「火星生活」撒下食物種子 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 971	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:28:12 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228140	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2370e4b0e62e725ba465.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●有家長帶同小朋友前來參觀，希望讓他們從小感受科技的力量。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2371e4b0e62e725ba469.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●「奮鬥者」號載人潛水器模型。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2372e4b0e62e725ba46d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●空間站內部模型。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2373e4b0e62e725ba471.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●嫦娥六號返回艙和降落傘實物。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2374e4b0e62e725ba475.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●市民觀賞重點展品。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2375e4b0e62e725ba479.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●長征五號運載火箭模型。 <p>「國家發展成就系列─無盡探索︰中國的航天、航空及航海」展覽於昨日起至下月7日在香港科學館對外開放，不少市民在開放首日前往參觀，透過展覽中豐富的實物、模型、圖文、影片及互動展品，領略國家的科技創新實力。多名參觀者昨日接受香港文匯報訪問時表示，透過國家航天、航空及航海前沿尖端科技實力的提升，感受到近年國家的進步，對身為中國人感到非常自豪。有家長帶同小朋友前來參觀，希望讓他們從小感受科技的力量，讓知識的種子從小就在他們心裏開始萌芽。 ●文：香港文匯報記者黃子龍圖：香港文匯報記者北山彥</p> <p>有來港遊客前往科學館和太空館遊覽，恰逢今次展覽首日開放，感到非常驚喜。內地遊客鄭小姐表示，這次前來香港遊玩，做旅遊攻略的時候覺得，除了玩之外還要讓小朋友從中學習，畢竟各地的科學館內容各有特色，因此前來參觀，恰逢這次展覽首日，頓感非常幸運。</p> <p>江小朋友興奮說道，看到火箭、衛星的模型，覺得非常宏偉。他本來就對天文及航天非常感興趣，經常和父親討論高科技、在電視觀看火箭發射等，這次能看到許多實物與模型，會回去與父親分享。</p> <p>不少長者亦前來參觀，見證國家的強大。陳伯表示，自己在電視上看到這個展覽的信息，便希望近距離感受國家發展的最新成就，所以和太太前來。他感嘆道，很長一段時間，外國人都看低中國人，現在因為國家實力已明顯提升，在國際間才有充足的發言權，對身為中國人感到非常自豪。</p> <p>他提到，自己以前移民到加拿大數十年，近年才因為子女回港居住，認為香港人在外國根本屬於「三等公民」，感嘆還是在自己國家過得最開心。</p> <p>市民：直觀感受現時最前沿科技</p> <p>梁先生認為，今次展覽非常成功，有許多實物、圖片和模型，內容豐富，令他可以非常直觀地感受到現時最前沿的科技。他頗有感觸地說道，看到這些成就，感受到國家近年飛速的發展，為香港亦帶來更多機會，希望日後能參觀更多此類型的展覽。</p> <p>許多家長及教師把握這個教育子女的好機會，帶小朋友前來感受。市民馮先生表示，本身帶小朋友前來看恐龍展覽，看到這個展覽便順便前來參觀，覺得展覽內容豐富，希望兒子玩得開心的同時可以學到知識。馮小朋友認為，今次展覽全部內容都非常好，令他感到驚奇，非常好玩。之前從未見過如此大的飛機、火箭等模型，希望日後可以更多了解這些新奇的知識。</p> <p>小朋友化身「助理員」「指揮」航空母艦</p> <p>有小朋友成為「起飛助理員」，體驗指揮航空母艦的樂趣。他們通過不同的肢體語言，在實景模擬器中嘗試指揮飛機升降。蔡小朋友親身嘗試後，覺得非常好玩，而且不算很難，自己還取得了滿分的成績。她說到，以前沒有看過這些火箭、大船，覺得非常開心，希望日後能更多了解這些知識。</p> <p>屈小姐說，之前在網上看到這個展覽，於是帶兒子前來參觀，希望小朋友可以通過此類展覽，認識更多課本之外的知識，當日後可能需要接觸到如航天、航海等資訊時，能夠想起兒時曾參觀過實體的東西，相信可以加深他對於科技的了解。她的兒子親身嘗試「指揮」航空母艦，亦玩得非常開心，不期望一次的參觀可以有質的變化，但起碼可以逐漸打下求知的基礎。</p> <p>有教師帶領許多幼兒園小朋友前來參觀，梁小姐說到，早前已安排好組織小朋友前來科學館參觀，恰逢這個展覽已開始，便順道前來參觀。她認為，不擔心小朋友會看不懂這些科技，因為展覽中有許多圖畫和模型，小朋友亦看得好開心，相信多身臨其境地感受科學氣氛會有助於小朋友的成長。</p> <p>展覽詳情</p> <p>展期：8月1日至9月7日</p> <p>地點：香港科學館特備展覽廳及低層廣場</p> <p>票價：已包括於常設展覽廳票價內，不另收費</p> <p>展覽四大主題展區</p> <p>「星漢探極」航天展區</p> <p>聚焦中國在月球探索與航天技術方面的重大突破，重點呈現嫦娥六號月背採樣的里程碑成就</p> <p>「鵬翼凌霄」航空展區</p> <p>展示中國航空工業的創新歷程，介紹航空科技和飛機工程的進展</p> <p>「瀚海啟明」航海展區</p> <p>呈現中國在海洋勘探及船舶製造技術領域的最新成果</p> <p>「港耀星海」香港展區</p> <p>介紹香港科研人員在國家太空探測及深海探索中的重要貢獻，突顯香港的科研實力</p> <p>重點展品</p> <p>●嫦娥五號和嫦娥六號在月球正面及</p> <p>背面採集的月壤</p> <p>●嫦娥六號返回艙和降落傘</p> <p>●萬米深潛的海水樣本</p> <p>●殲-20、運-20、直-20等飛機模型</p> <p>●造船業「三顆明珠」：航空母艦、豪華</p> <p>郵輪和大型液化天然氣運輸船的模型</p> <p>●一比五、高約12米的長征五號運載</p> <p>火箭</p> <p>●實物原大、長約10米的「奮鬥者」號全海深載人潛水器模型</p> <p>●一比八、翼展約6米的「運-20」大型運輸機模型</p> <p>互動體驗項目（部分）</p> <p>●「月球基地」</p> <p>●「我的火星生活」</p> <p>●「我的太陽系」</p> <p>●「航母style」</p> <p>●「海天通話」</p> <p>●「祝融號探險」</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 中國航天航空航海科技展對外開放市民遊客自豪祖國成就親子觀展收穫豐知識種子植心中 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 3211	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:28:32 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228139	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2384e4b0e62e725ba47d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●陳先生滿載而歸。香港文匯報記者郭木又攝 <p>香港文匯報訊（記者張茗）香港中華廠商聯合會主辦的第五屆工展會購物節昨日於亞博館開幕，一連四天為市民及旅客帶來集購物、娛樂與美食於一體的夏日體驗。今年展會新增家鄉風味區，展示內地10省市特色產品，吸引不少人到場選購。不少市民表示，亞博的購物節環境寬敞，物品更實惠，產品相較市面便宜兩三成，同時有冷氣且無須暴曬，購物體驗舒適。</p> <p>今年購物節新增的家鄉風味區以紫色攤位牌為標識，展出山西陳醋、四川茶葉等內地特產。</p> <p>首次參展的山西醋攤位負責人陳小姐表示，主打健康功效的傳統食醋契合當下市民消費需求，一款二十年陳醋產品銷路頗佳，「每斤38元，價格不貴，風味又醇厚、好食。」另一款西梅醋亦因有助消化功能而走俏。白木耳等乾貨稍冷清，但特色產品銷情理想，整體有望盈利，「或需補貨。」</p> <p>前來幫襯的曾太表示，該山西醋價錢相宜，甚至比她去山西旅行時所購的醋更便宜，「味道差不多，價錢平咁多，而且香港冇得買」，認為差異化的商品是吸引其消費的關鍵。</p> <p>四川「爾善食品」攤位負責人周小姐是第二次來港參展，帶來精選茶葉、無花果、雪菊等乾貨，價格親民，吸引不少市民駐足選購。</p> <p>本地保健品批發商「錦輝發展」負責人鄭先生表示，昨日因是工作日，客量一般，預料周末人流會增多，認為主辦方安排的接駁巴士對吸引客流能起一定作用，惟港人在暑假期間熱衷外出旅遊等多重因素令他們未有抱過高期望，「銷量能與往屆持平已屬理想。」</p> <p>曾太與葉小姐昨日乘坐接駁巴士前來，兩人購買近千元煲湯產品，「我們是第一次來，沒有提前規劃購物清單，看見適合就買。」</p> <p>陳姓夫婦及袁小姐在展會閒逛兩小時已戰利品滿滿，主要購買茶包、燕麥粉等健康食品。陳先生表示，場內貨品豐富，價格實惠，部分品類價格媲美「淘寶」，較市面便宜20%至30%，惟擔心入貨太多，不便攜帶，將考慮選擇快遞送貨服務。</p> <p>特區政府商務及經濟發展局局長丘應樺在開幕致辭時表示，購物節自舉辦以來，深受消費者好評，亦為港商提供平台以推廣和銷售產品，特區政府會繼續發揮香港的國際旅遊樞紐角色，吸引更多旅客來港，振興零售業，「要吸引及留住消費者的最終都是產品本身，尤其香港品牌一直深受消費者信賴和喜愛。」</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 工展會購物節銷情佳市民讚特產平過原產地 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 1224	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:28:53 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228138	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d2398e4b0e62e725ba481.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●羅淑佩拉隊到九龍城嘆消夜。羅淑佩Fb圖片 <p>香港文匯報訊香港盛事不斷，特區政府文化體育及旅遊局局長羅淑佩前晚在啟德體育園觀賞了「北倫敦打吡」阿仙奴對熱刺的球賽。她分享了自己賽後拉大隊到九龍城嘆消夜打邊爐，發現店內座無虛席，更碰到一桌來自四川的旅客，更大讚香港好玩，表示已來近10次。</p> <p>羅淑佩在社交平台發帖表示，阿仙奴對熱刺這項體育盛事不但令場館爆滿，更帶動了周邊經濟，前晚是周四而非假日，反映通過舉辦各類大型盛事活動帶來經濟效益，「努力，是有回報的！」她與文體旅局同事會繼續努力。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 羅淑佩拉隊打邊爐遇熱情川客盛讚港魅力 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 504	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:29:12 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228137	有图 <p> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23ace4b0e62e725ba485.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●市民爭相與Chiikawa角色們合照。香港文匯報記者曾興偉攝 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23ade4b0e62e725ba489.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●有參觀市民即場寫生。香港文匯報記者曾興偉攝 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23aee4b0e62e725ba48d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> ●尖東站化身吉伊卡哇主題車站。 <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23afe4b0e62e725ba491.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> 8月份香港大型活動（部分） <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23b0e4b0e62e725ba495.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23b1e4b0e62e725ba499.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23b2e4b0e62e725ba49d.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img src="https://dw-media.wenweipo.com/dams/wwpproduct/image/202508/02/688d23b3e4b0e62e725ba4a1.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <p>香港今年下半年接連有多項盛事舉行，各大IP（文化知識產權）輪番登場，啟德體育園剛上演完阿仙奴對熱刺的精彩對決後，日本人氣動漫Chiikawa特展昨日則在尖沙咀盛大開幕，展期更延至本月31日，而月內續有多項不同活動讓旅客參與，有訪港旅客表示，訪港期間亦會參觀不同的展覽和活動。特區政府文化體育及旅遊局局長羅淑佩昨日表示，今年上半年訪港旅客已超過2,400萬人次，盛事及IP活動帶動旅遊、餐飲及零售等經濟增長，未來更會舉辦一連串精彩活動，將體育、文化及旅遊深度融合，以吸引全球旅客（見表）。有內地旅客表示，他們在港期間參加過多項盛事，認為香港擁有地理優勢，對內地旅客有吸引力。●香港文匯報記者唐文</p> <p>日本人氣動漫《吉伊卡哇》（Chiikawa）的「CHIIKAWA DAYS」大型特展昨日假尖沙咀K11 MUSEA開幕，吸引大批粉絲到場「朝聖」。展覽由創意品牌AllRightsReserved（ARR）與吉伊卡哇官方授權方Spiralcute International首次合辦，展期原定由本月1日至24日，因反應熱烈，決定加場一周，延長至31日。</p> <p>反應熱烈展期延至本月底</p> <p>展覽設三大收費展區及免費打卡區，並推出香港的獨家系列商品，當中室內展廳「吉伊卡哇的可愛全日常」位於MUSE EDITION，展示經典場景如網吧、「郎」拉麵、監獄、三星餐廳及討伐名場面，並設香港限定「飲茶」空間，讓訪客體驗傳說中的「白飯電飯煲」；戶外展區「超巨大食物之森空中樂園」位於6樓雕塑公園，呈現吉伊卡哇世界的美食盛宴；地下Promenade的「大型討伐！名場面造型集合」則展示9米高巨型充氣雕塑及角色限定造型。</p> <p>羅淑佩：活動助推動旅遊經濟</p> <p>羅淑佩在Chiikawa特展開幕禮上表示，今次特展是今夏最令人期待的IP主題盛事之一，IP近年在香港以至全球掀起熱潮，相關活動能推動旅遊經濟，如剛結束的動漫電玩展吸引大批參與者，市民及旅客即使在黑雨下仍熱情排隊，而「香港足球盛會2025」的兩場賽事，除門票收益外，還刺激球衣、文創產品、餐飲、零售及交通等周邊產業商機。今年上半年旅客已超過2,400萬人次，有雙位數增長，反映香港作為國際文化及旅遊樞紐的吸引力。</p> <p>她表示，IP文創產業正在香港蓬勃發展，香港市民以至世界各地旅客慕名而來，積極與心愛的卡通主角、動漫人物、球隊海報打卡，更樂於搶購周邊產品，套用有旅客在動漫電玩節所說：「買到拿不動還要買！」為此，文體旅局會和業界加強合作，引入更多不同的IP盛事，為香港市民以至旅客帶來豐富、嶄新的旅遊體驗。</p> <p>深圳旅客白小姐昨與家人來港，除參觀Chiikawa特展，更順道與首次來港的胞弟參觀尖沙咀一帶的藝術館、太空館和科學館。她提及港鐵尖東站的主題裝飾，並指車站閘機發出Chiikawa動畫角色原聲提示音效十分有趣，吸引不少乘客拍片。</p> <p>她認為展覽落戶香港便無須遠赴日本，對深圳居民來說更便利，未來若有喜愛的歌手在港舉行演唱會，會再來港參與，而她曾嘗試購買林家謙月底演唱會的門票，惟不熟悉售票網站操作未能成功，期望未來售票平台更便利內地用戶使用。</p> <p>來自福建的吳小姐與兩位朋友來港，預計停留4天，此行雖以辦事為主，但規劃行程時已特意安排時間參觀Chiikawa主題展覽，並於現場購買逾百元毛公仔。</p> <p>另一名在本地就讀大學的內地生表示，除到訪Chiikawa特展外，亦會到海港城參觀Sanrio舉辦的「50周年花火夏祭」。她表示，在港期間參與過多個活動，包括今年5月於亞博館舉行的韓國男團NCT WISH演唱會，坦言自己是演唱會愛好者，會因活動調整周末行程。</p> <p>「香港足球盛會2025」於前晚結束，沙特超級盃隨即於本月19日至23日首次在港舉行，葡萄牙球星基斯坦奴·朗拿度（C朗）率領的艾納斯等4支足球勁旅將在香港大球場獻技。本月還有韓國歌手G-Dragon、香港唱作歌手林家謙及鄧紫棋等分別在亞博館、紅館和啟德體育園舉行演唱會。香港科學館正舉行的「無盡探索：中國的航天、航空及航海」展覽，亦吸引不少旅客參觀，加上香港的郊野和美食，讓旅客訪港期間可參與不同活動，體驗多元化旅遊。</p> <p> 讀文匯報PDF版面 </p> 人氣萌寶登港 IP盛事浪接浪 Chiikawa特展尖沙咀開幕深圳客「近水樓台」慕名到訪 - 香港 - 香港文匯網	查看 3071	《旗帜报》	2025-08-02 04:29:32 2025-08-02 22:27:16	word
3228136	有图 <p>SAN JOSE — Martha’s Kitchen, whose food programs provide 200,000 meals a month, has bought a San Jose property in a deal that will enable it to meet rising demand and potentially buoy other nonprofits.</p><p>An affiliate of the soup kitchen paid about $7.5 million for a retail and industrial building at 749 Story Rd., across the street from Happy Hollow Zoo, documents filed on July 28 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show. It will serve as the new Martha’s Kitchen site.</p><img src="https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SJM-L-SJFOODBANK-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martha"s Kitchen workers are seen inside the soup kitchen"s current operations at 311 Willow Street in San Jose.(Martha"s Kitchen)<p>Center for Training and Careers, which does business as ConXion, sold the Story Road property to the Martha’s Kitchen affiliate, county documents show. ConXion also signed a lease with its new landlord, leasing roughly 10,000 square feet from Martha’s Kitchen.</p>Related Articles Economic upswing sprouts on multiple fronts in downtown San Jose, report shows Foreclosed San Jose hotel may go up for sale after major sports events Former Birkenstock site in Marin County sold to Eames Institute for $36 million Foreclosures, defaults undermine hotel deals in Bay Area, California South Bay apartment hub bought in deal that tops $60 million <p>The soup kitchen currently operates in the hall of the Sacred Heart Church site at 311 Willow St. in San Jose, south of the city’s downtown district. The new location is about 1.5 miles from the current site.</p><p>“We have grown so much. We are in pretty tight spaces where we are now,” said Bill Lee, CEO of Martha’s Kitchen. “We now serve five to six times the number of meals that we were serving during COVID. We are seeing a big increase in demand.”</p><p>Martha’s Kitchen scouted for a new location for about two years before it settled on the site that it found on Story Road.</p><p>“We will move all volunteers, storage, meal serving, and parking to the new Story Road location,” Lee said.</p><p>The first stage of the move should occur by late August or early September, he estimated.</p> <p> </p><p>Kidder Mathews commercial real estate brokers Steve Zamudio, James Viso and Derik Benson helped to arrange the property purchase. Colliers, a commercial real estate firm, had been marketing the building for sale or lease.</p><p>“It’s an outreach area for the community,” Zamudio said. “This location works really well for a nonprofit organization. Martha’s Kitchen can feed homeless persons out of that location.”</p><p>The soup kitchen believes the new Story Road location will benefit both the community and the nonprofit.</p><p>“For the future of Martha’s Kitchen, this is going to be great,” Lee said. “We can expand in the building, and we can grow as an organization.”</p><p>Other nonprofits will also be occupying part of the ConXion space, leaving somewhat more than 20,000 square feet available for the soup kitchen.</p><p>“This move allows us to stay in central San Jose,” Lee said. “A lot of our clients are near our new location, and we will still be able to serve everyone we are helping now.”</p><p>Buying a long-term site will also produce challenges for Martha’s Kitchen.</p><p>“Now we have to fundraise for the building we bought,” Lee said.</p><p>At least one other food-oriented Bay Area nonprofit has paved the way to future growth through real estate deals.</p><p>In 2022, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, a high-profile food bank, paid $37.5 million for a site at 4553 North First St., in north San Jose’s Alviso district that will serve as its future headquarters and food-handling center.</p><p>In June, Second Harvest paid $13 million for empty land next to the 4553 North First site to bolster future food-handling efforts.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM PDT</time></p> Soup kitchen buys San Jose property for growth to meet rising demand	查看 4048	硅谷新闻网	2025-08-01 16:09:43 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228135	无图 <p>By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg</p><p>Apple Inc. is closing a retail store in China for the first time, marking a notable retreat in a market where the iPhone maker is striving to revive sales.</p><p>The company said on Monday that it will shut its Parkland Mall store in the Zhongshan District of Dalian City on Aug. 9, citing a changing landscape at the shopping complex. It has about 56 stores in the Greater China region, making up over 10% of its footprint of more than 530 outlets globally.</p>Related Articles Apple growth rebounds on strength of iPhone 16 line, China Apple overcomes Trump’s trade war, slow start in AI to deliver surprisingly strong quarter Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta’s superintelligence team H-1B visa: Trump administration signals major change for controversial foreign-worker program Meta hires two key Apple AI experts after poaching their boss <p>“We’re always focused on providing an exceptional experience for all of our customers both online and at more than 50 Apple Store locations across Greater China,” the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement. “Given the departure of several retailers at the Parkland Mall, we have made the decision to close our store there.”</p><p>China is grappling with deflationary pressures as consumption wanes and global tariffs hurt exports, a major engine of the world’s No. 2 economy. Retail sales growth has fallen short of forecasts, and home prices dropped at a faster pace in June.</p><p>The closing store is one of two locations in Dalian City. The other, a store at the Olympia 66 shopping complex, remains open. Employees at the site that’s closing will be given opportunities to work elsewhere, the company said. The two locations are roughly 10 minutes apart.</p><p>More broadly, Apple has been looking to stage a comeback in China. Sales in the country fell 2.3% to $16 billion in the second quarter, which ended March 29. Analysts had predicted $16.8 billion.</p><p>Apple is opening a new store at Uniwalk Qianhai in Shenzhen on Aug. 16. It’s also planning additional locations in Beijing and Shanghai over the next year, Bloomberg News has reported. It opened a store in the Anhui province in January.</p> <p> </p><p>The company is also expanding soon with new stores in Detroit, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and India. A location in Osaka opened on July 26, and a major new flagship store debuted in Miami in January. The company also opened its first store in Malaysia last year.</p><p>While Apple is still adding new stores, overall retail expansion has slowed since the pandemic hit. Apple has instead focused on opening up its online retail store in new places, such as India and Saudi Arabia, and updating or moving older physical locations.</p><p>The company also appears to be becoming more selective in renewing its leases, announcing plans to shutter a store in Bristol in the UK on same day as its closure in China. Other upcoming closures include the Partridge Creek store in Michigan and the Hornsby location near Sydney.</p><p>Apple isn’t the only major brand to back out of China’s Parkland Mall. Earlier this year, the majority shareholder of the complex took full operational control, and retailers like Coach, Sandro and Hugo Boss haven’t renewed their leases in recent years.</p><p>More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com</p><p>©2025 Bloomberg L.P.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM PDT</time></p> Apple to shutter a retail store in China for the first time ever – Silicon Valley	查看 3584	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-29 10:57:38 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228134	无图 <p>OAKLAND — Before July 4th each year, undercover police officers take to the streets and the internet in search of firework sellers.</p><p>This year had them on Instagram talking with “@Pyro.moe38,” or answering Craigslist ads with pictures of large pyrotechnic launchers. It even brought them to an Alameda warehouse where they’d allegedly seen pictures depicting 50,000 pounds of fireworks, at a store called Hyphy Mini Mart, where an undercover officer allegedly bought marijuana and arranged a $300 fireworks deal, court records show.</p><p>Felony charges have followed. In San Leandro, a 24-year-old man was charged with selling fireworks out of his car’s trunk. In Oakland, a 35-year-old man was charged with possessing and manufacturing assault weapons, after police raided his home during an online fireworks investigation. In Livermore, an 18-year-old man was charged with possessing 258 pounds of fireworks in his bedroom following an undercover investigation, court records show.</p><p>Hyphy Mini Mart, meanwhile, was raided but police didn’t report finding fireworks. Instead, they found packs of cannabis, flavored tobacco and an assault pistol, according to court records. They also cleaned $95 from the store’s cash register during the raid.</p><p>California law allows for “safe and sane” fireworks but not those deemed “dangerous,” including devices that launch fireworks into the air, despite the fact that these items are legal in other parts of the country. This year, Californians celebrated July 4th on the heels of a tragic explosion in the Bay Area-adjacent community of Esparto, where seven people were killed when an allegedly unpermitted fireworks warehouse blew up.</p><p>The law enforcement operations are done alongside pubic campaigns to dissuade people from shooting off their own fireworks. But each year’s efforts hardly seem to make a dent; every July 4th the skies of the East Bay light up with colorful blasts all night despite it all.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM PDT</time></p> An American tradition: Every summer East Bay cops go undercover for fireworks	查看 2052	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 04:47:48 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228133	有图 <p>The two-year battle over a controversial backyard apartment in Crown Point escalated to a new level this week, with two visits by San Diego police, accusations of trespassing and new threats of litigation.</p><p>The source of the controversy is a zoning loophole that has pitted neighbor against neighbor in coastal communities by allowing backyard apartments — also called accessory dwelling units, or ADUs — to be built directly along property lines.</p><p>RELATED:California is so eager for homeowners to build ADUs, it’s helping them save on architect fees</p><img src="https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SUT-L-adu-fight-1.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">A worker squeezes between a fence and a wall to finish painting an ADU on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 in San Diego. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)<p>In Crown Point, Heidi Martin and her family have been unable to paint the last wall of their new ADU because it’s right on the property line and neighbor Marc Umemoto has repeatedly refused to let them use his yard to finish it.</p><p>Umemoto blames the city for allowing an ADU to be built so close to his property that it walls off his yard, keeping sunlight and breezes out and changing the character of his home just a few blocks from Mission Bay.</p><p>And he blames Martin for taking advantage of that rule.</p><p>After many months of failed negotiations between the neighbors, the contractor for Martin took the unusual step Monday of trying to paint the final wall from Martin’s property using a long pole with a roller attached.</p><p>When the painter lost his balance and stepped onto Umemoto’s property around 10 a.m., Umemoto called the police and accused the contractor of trespassing.</p> <p> </p><p>The officers who arrived refused to make an arrest or issue a citation, both neighbors say.</p><p>When the painter again lost his balance just after noon, Umemoto again called the police. Different officers arrived, and they too left without arresting or ticketing anyone.</p><p>“I had a long discussion with the police, and they won’t do anything unless they witness it themselves,” Umemoto said Tuesday. “And it’s not a severe enough trespassing for them to be cited.”</p><p>To Umemoto, this policy should be a warning to all San Diego residents that it’s essentially useless to put up “no trespassing” signs or install cameras — which he did shortly after the Martins began construction of the ADU.</p><p>“It’s kind of a waste of time,” he said.</p><img src="https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SUT-L-adu-fight-3.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C16px%2C100%2C350px&ssl=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">A worker squeezes between a fence and a wall to finish painting an ADU on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 in San Diego. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)<p>But to Martin, this week is yet another regrettable chapter in an unfortunate dispute that she says has unfairly portrayed her as some sort of neighborhood enemy.</p><p>She has repeatedly pointed out that her family is building only one ADU — nothing like the large ADU developments that have generated so much controversy — and that they are not investors buying up properties for ADUs.</p><p>“The guys should be done painting by tomorrow, and I hope it’s over after that,” Martin said. “It’s just been a mess.”</p><p>She said the police, quite reasonably, told the painters to be safe and not focus so intently on avoiding Umemoto’s property that they injure themselves.</p><p>“We’re not doing anything wrong — we just want the wall painted,” she said.</p><p>Martin noted that she had to abandon a longtime plan to stucco the final wall because Umemoto wouldn’t allow it. Instead, they are using elastomeric waterproof paint to cover the final wall’s yellow gypsum-based sheathing board.</p><p>She said her lawyers made multiple offers to Umemoto to get his permission to use his yard for just one day so they could finish the ADU.</p><img src="https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SUT-L-adu-fight-7.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">A worker finishes painting an ADU on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 in San Diego. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)<p>Umemoto confirms such offers were made but said they got bogged down by liability release forms, other red tape and his frustration with the Martin’s arguments.</p><p>“It may have been a good solution, but their reasoning for it was unacceptable,” he said.</p><p>Umemoto said he considered going to court to block the painting but decided it was probably too late. He’s still considering suing for damages.</p><p>The City Council outlawed building backyard apartments on property lines in April 2022, but the new rule couldn’t take effect in the city’s coastal neighborhoods without a second approval from the California Coastal Commission.</p><p>That approval wasn’t finalized until last September — nearly two and a half years after the city’s move. In the interim, dozens of backyard apartments were built directly on property lines in coastal neighborhoods.</p> A fought-over ADU is officially done. Two California neighbors’ war over it may not be. – Silicon Valley	查看 5131	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 05:58:26 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228132	无图 <p>By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg</p><p>Apple Inc. has lost its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta Platforms Inc., marking the latest setback to the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence efforts.</p><p>Bowen Zhang, a key multimodal AI researcher at Apple, left the company on Friday and is set to join Meta’s recently formed superintelligence team, according to people familiar with the matter. Zhang was part of the Apple foundation models group, or AFM, which built the core technology behind the company’s AI platform.</p>Related Articles Apple growth rebounds on strength of iPhone 16 line, China Apple overcomes Trump’s trade war, slow start in AI to deliver surprisingly strong quarter Apple to shutter a retail store in China for the first time ever H-1B visa: Trump administration signals major change for controversial foreign-worker program Meta hires two key Apple AI experts after poaching their boss <p>Meta previously lured away the leader of the team, Ruoming Pang, with a compensation package valued at more than $200 million, Bloomberg News has reported. Two other researchers from that group — Tom Gunter and Mark Lee — also recently joined Meta. AFM is made up of several dozen engineers and researchers across Cupertino, California, and New York.</p><p>In response to the job offers from Meta and others, Apple has been marginally increasing the pay of its AFM staffers, whether or not they’ve threatened to leave, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the moves are private. Still, the pay levels pale in comparison with those of rivals.</p><p>Spokespeople for Apple and Meta declined to comment.</p><p>Apple shares declined as much as 1.5% to $210.82, reaching a session low in New York trading. The stock was already down 15% this year through Monday’s close.</p><p>The departures have thrown Apple’s models team into flux. Pang played a central role in defining the department’s road map and research direction, and multiple people within AFM now say its future is unclear. Additional engineers are actively interviewing for jobs elsewhere, according to the people. Another team member — Floris Weers — left for a startup in recent weeks.</p> <p> </p><p>The AFM team is critical to Apple’s broader AI strategy. The group’s work underpins the Apple Intelligence platform, which launched last year. But now the company is considering a shift toward using more third-party models.</p><p>Some Apple executives see its homegrown models as a stumbling block to catching up with AI rivals, the people said. And the uncertainty over whether to outsource the technology has hurt morale at the company and helped fuel the attrition.</p><p>Meta, meanwhile, is aggressively staffing up. The Facebook owner has offered gigantic compensation packages to AI talent across Silicon Valley, luring away workers from Apple, OpenAI and Anthropic.</p><p>In recent months, Apple started considering a move away from AFM models for a new version of its Siri voice assistant. The work includes powering Siri with OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic PBC’s Claude models.</p><p>The company is simultaneously working on a competing version based on new AFM models. While a final decision hasn’t been made, Apple’s exploration of outside options has triggered unease within AFM.</p><p>Internally, executives have sought to reassure the team members, saying their work remains important to Apple’s AI strategy. They have told engineers that the company is committed to in-house model development, part of a broader desire to own critical underlying technologies, as the company has done with chips in recent years.</p><p>But Apple’s own policies have made it harder for its AI team to keep up with competitors. The company has a longstanding commitment to privacy and generally favors handling AI tasks on devices — rather than in the cloud — so the data doesn’t have to be processed somewhere out of the users’ control. That approach limits AI capabilities because phones aren’t as powerful as data centers.</p><p>Apple Intelligence mostly relies on an on-device model with 3 billion parameters, a measure of complexity and learning capacity. Competitors, in contrast, offer cloud-based systems with a trillion-plus parameters. Apple does have its own cloud model, but that’s in the range of 150 billion parameters.</p><p>The AFM group is now overseen by Zhifeng Chen and reports to Daphne Luong, head of AI research at Apple. She answers to John Giannandrea, senior vice president of AI.</p><p>More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com</p><p>©2025 Bloomberg L.P.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM PDT</time></p> Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta’s superintelligence team – Silicon Valley	查看 4756	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 09:31:24 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228131	无图 <p>By Luke Ramseth, The Detroit News</p><p>DETROIT — On a recent morning downtown, Eric Allison hopped into the backseat of a sleek six-propeller air taxi and began to explain his company’s vision for the future of transportation.</p><p>Imagine pulling up your Uber app, said Allison, the chief product officer for Joby Aviation, and ticking a “Joby” option. A car soon arrives and shuttles you to a nearby vertiport. A few other rideshare folks are waiting there, too, and four of you pile into the eVTOL, short for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, along with a pilot.</p>Related Articles Economic upswing sprouts on multiple fronts in downtown San Jose, report shows SAP to buy San Francisco-based HR software firm SmartRecruiters Reddit stock surges higher on strong advertising projections Coinbase falls after revenue misses estimates on lower volumes Bitcoin pulls back to three-week low after record-breaking July <p>The 20-mile or so journey over a gridlocked city — perhaps to an airport, where you’ll catch a flight — is quiet and quick, as the aircraft takes off like a helicopter before transitioning to airplane mode. After touching down, it’s a short walk to your gate.</p><p>The cost of this convenience, potentially shaving hours of travel time, is expected to be a fraction of the cost of a helicopter ride today. Allison said the aim is for prices on par with Uber Black, the luxury vehicle pickup service.</p><p>“The advantage of this is you get the speed, and efficiency, and quietness of an airplane, and you get the kind of runway-dependence flexibility of a helicopter,” said Allison, a former Uber executive and NASA aeronautics adviser. “Both of these are really important for going after this air taxi market that we’re designing this for.”</p><p>eVTOLs are finally nearing commercial reality — at least in certain restricted environments. The Joby five-seater that was tucked away behind the new Hudson’s Detroit complex earlier this month for a gathering of tech, manufacturing and defense executives was just a display model. But other aircraft from the Santa Cruz-based company are undergoing rigorous testing. The company recently completed its first transition flights with a pilot onboard, and hopes to transport passengers next year in Dubai.</p><p>Archer Aviation, a San Jose-based electric air taxi startup at a similar stage as Joby, also attended the Reindustrialize summit. CEO Adam Goldstein said on stage that his firm aims to sell its first aircraft for use in Abu Dhabi later this year, though he acknowledged passenger rides wouldn’t occur right away. Archer is also a partner for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, where the company hopes to fly dignitaries and athletes around the city.</p> <p> </p><p>“The core concept was always, ‘Where are my flying cars?’” Goldstein said. “And the goal is to bring that dream to reality this year.”</p><p>Yet there remain major hurdles to overcome for the fledgling industry — which already has watched several well-funded startups go belly-up — before air taxis are crisscrossing major cities. On the technology side, eVTOL companies are working to improve their lithium-ion batteries, given the huge power requirements necessary for an aircraft to hover, said Blake Stringer, who directs Ohio State University’s Center for Aviation Studies.</p><p>A number of challenges have little to do with the aircraft designs themselves, according to the mechanical and aerospace professor who has studied eVTOLs for years. More real-world testing is needed to better understand the vehicles’ limits around things like heat or fog, and heavy air traffic. Costly ground infrastructure will need to be installed, like chargers and vertiports, with logistical plans developed for quick turnaround times.</p><p>Air traffic control systems for air taxis will need to be established. Stringer said this new type of aircraft won’t be able to rely on the existing federal air traffic control system, which is already overburdened and grappling with several accidents and close calls this year. Finally, he said, a new crop of pilots and maintenance workers must be recruited to keep fleets of eVTOLs humming.</p><p>“I would predict we’re at least five years away from seeing these in routine operations, in large urban areas,” Stringer said. For the industry to really take off around the country, he added, a large infusion of government support will likely be needed.</p><p>Policymakers and regulators do appear to be increasingly focused on eVTOLs. The FAA is working through a years-long process of design, production, and operational certifications with companies including Joby and Archer to ensure the new types of aircraft are safe to carry people. President Donald Trump last month signed an executive order creating a pilot program for testing “flying cars,” a development that Goldstein said could help accelerate the approval process.</p><p>“It signaled to the FAA that this is a clear priority from the administration,” Goldstein said in an interview. “The FAA has to decide which programs to work on — they have limited resources, and so it gives them the ability to focus on this. It also gives everybody else, all the partners, the trust that this industry is coming.”</p><p>Michigan hopes to be a player in the growing drone and eVTOL industry. As Reindustrialize was going on, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a directive creating the Advanced Air Mobility Initiative, which is supposed to help the state grow its expertise in drones and eVTOLs.</p><p>Among the initial projects funded: $1 million for the University of Michigan to create something called M-Air, which will include a 40-mile research skyway between the Ann Arbor campus and Detroit’s Michigan Central Station to test drones and other electric aircraft. In a statement, Whitmer described an intense global competition heating up to develop better aviation and autonomous aircraft, and said Michigan could “lead the way” for the United States.</p><p>Air taxi vertiports are likely to be positioned around large cities, executives said, allowing faster trips to the airport or other local destinations. eVTOLs, as their range improves, could eventually serve as transportation between cities — in some instances, potentially adding new routes that wouldn’t otherwise be profitable for traditional airlines, said Stringer, the Ohio State professor.</p><p>But eVTOL companies are also increasingly focused on developing versions of the aircraft for the military. Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt said his company has been investing heavily in autonomous versions of its aircraft that are powered by a hydrogen-electric system that could stay in the air longer in a war zone.</p><p>“We think this is game-changing, being able to build autonomous aircraft that have unprecedented range and endurance, and we think this is critical to national security and defense as we look into the future,” Bevirt said on a panel at Reindustrialize.</p><p>Archer is similarly developing a hybrid version of its Midnight aircraft and has partnered with defense firm Anduril Industries, which specializes in autonomous military systems.</p><p>“In the first innings of this industry, the defense side will be substantially larger,” Goldstein said. “If you look at the first 10 years, and you look at the amount of aircraft that will need to be built … for the West and its allies, it should be quite a large number of aircraft, and so it could end up being bigger than the civil side. But time will tell.”</p><p>Joby and Archer have inked partnerships with airlines and ride-hailing services, with the idea that an air taxi ride could eventually be packaged with other modes of transportation that could be booked in an app.</p><p>Major car companies are also involved: Toyota Motor Corp. in the case of Joby and Stellantis NV with Archer. Both automakers have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the respective eVTOL companies and are providing hands-on support as they set up manufacturing facilities, executives said.</p><p>Joby announced this month that it was doubling its aircraft production capacity at a plant in Marina, California, as it looks to build more aircraft for flight tests. It has several other manufacturing facilities, including one in Dayton, Ohio, a refurbished former postal facility that will soon manufacture and test parts, and eventually churn out as many as hundreds of aircraft per year.</p><p>Archer late last year completed building a 400,000-square-foot factory in Covington, Georgia, and Goldstein said it has started making initial test versions of aircraft.</p><p>For the Archer CEO, a key junction for his company and the industry’s progress, in general, will be the Los Angeles Olympics in three years. Will the company’s Midnight aircraft be zipping between venues, skipping over the city’s notoriously hellish traffic, on a televised world stage?</p><p>“It acts as like a milestone for everybody,” Goldstein said. “Everybody wants this to happen. … Maybe the helicopter operators don’t want this to happen, but everybody else wants this to happen. So the Olympics is a really good way to show that America leads in aviation, that America is building a whole new industry, which will create a lot of jobs.”</p><p>©2025 www.detroitnews.com. Visit at detroitnews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM PDT</time></p> These flying taxi companies want to soar over gridlock — for the cost of an Uber – Silicon Valley	查看 9553	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 07:48:45 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228130	无图 <p>By Lizette Chapman, Bloomberg</p><p>Every month Neros Inc. makes hundreds of drones designed to drop warheads on adversaries. By the end of the year, the company wants its new Southern California factory to crank out 10,000 per month. Never mind that Neros only has orders for 36,000 of them for Ukraine.</p><p>“If we wait until a buyer comes knocking and asks for a certain quantity of drones built at a certain pace, it will be too late,” said Chief Executive Officer Soren Monroe-Anderson. “The supply chain is the hard part. We are putting in the work now” to be able to produce weapons later, he said.</p>Related Articles SAP to buy San Francisco-based HR software firm SmartRecruiters Magid: UK Online Safety Act tougher than proposed U.S. law These flying taxi companies want to soar over gridlock — for the cost of an Uber Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta’s superintelligence team Did a lab of Bay Area AI “scientists” design a possible COVID treatment? <p>Neros is one of a growing number of startups betting on the great reindustrialization of America’s defense base. Dozens of other Silicon Valleyindustrial companies are building out largemanufacturing operations, at the same time the Trump administration pushes to bulk up defense spending. A rough tally of plans by just a few of the better-known startups in the industry shows they’re spending a collective $4 billion and counting over the next few years on shipyards, factories and manufacturing tools and equipment.</p><p>Weapons maker Anduril Industries Inc. and autonomous ship builder Saronic Technologies are undertaking the largest projects, investing $1 billion and $2.7 billion respectively to build software-operated manufacturing megafactories, capable of producing tens of thousands of AI-powered autonomous ships, aerial drones, fighter jets and other weapons.</p><p>They’re joined by other venture-backed players like factory startup Hadrian, drone and defense company Shield AI, satellite firm Astranis Space Technologies Corp., and industrial parts and manufacturing upstartDivergent TechnologiesInc.This month,Varda Space Industries Inc., backed by investors like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund,raised $187 million to open a lab in California to bolster itsdrugmaking efforts and frequency of its missions to space.</p><p>Meanwhile,othertech leaders have even grander ambitions. The developers of the billionaire-backed futuristic community California Forever are planning to build the largest defense-focused industrial manufacturing park in the US that will also include a shipyard near San Francisco. Another project, Frontier Valley, hopes to construct 5 million square feet of Bay Area manufacturing space.</p><p>“This new age of defense is about rapid manufacturing,”said Lux Capital general partner Brandon Reeves, whose firm has backed Anduril, Varda and Hadrian. “Everyone is trying to get to scale.”</p> <p> </p><p>The efforts could help address a glaring problem in American national security: the slow speed of US weapons manufacturing compared with China. In most modern-day wartime scenarios, the country that’s able to quickly produce the most autonomous drones, ships and other hardware has a vast advantage, meaning America is poorly positioned. VCs and startups have been vocal about this problem —Joe Lonsdale has invoked the criticalrole of World War II-era production efforts, and Andreessen Horowitz adviser Matt Cronin has called the issue an“existential threat” to US national security.</p><p>But building out industrial infrastructure is a gamble for venture investors who are spending large sums to expandproduction with no guarantee thatfamously hard-to-get defense contracts will materialize. VCs have plowed more than $70 billion into the top 100 defense startups, which have so far secured about $29billion total in contracts, according to a Julyreport by the Silicon Valley Defense Group.</p><p>“It’s a chicken-and-the-egg problem,” said General Catalyst Managing Director Paul Kwan, an investor in Anduril, Saronic and more than a dozen other defense startups planning to expandin advance of contract awards. “Private capital has stepped up. That’s absolutely the investment risk we are taking.”</p><p>While startups are making inroads — theDefense Department more than doubled its annual spending on startups in 2024 — the groupstill represents less than 1% of the overall defense budget, per the report’s tally.</p><p>By far, the bulk of defense spending goes to traditional contractors, specificallyLockheed Martin Corp., RTX Corp., Boeing Co., Northrup Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. Known as the “Big Five,” these firms have been around for decades and have deep Washington relationships. And while these legacy companies have the benefit of well-established supply chains and large-scale production facilities, many in Washington and Silicon Valley have complained that they move too slowly, weighed down by layers of bureaucracy that affect how quickly they can innovate.Startups can boast of their more nimble structures andup-to-the-minutetechnology, butthey usually lack a track record, so it’s often difficult for them to break through the complicated world of Washington procurement that prioritizes reliability.</p><p>“The market is telling these companies to grow — and investors are backing them. But the Department of Defense has not yet built the contracting infrastructure or funding flexibility to meet the moment,” the Silicon Valley Defense Group writes. The result could be a “two-speed ecosystem” where private capital continues to grow while public funds remain tied to legacy processes and contractors.“Ultimately, this is not sustainable,” the authors say, “and we risk ecosystem momentum collapse.”</p><p>‘Where’s the Paperwork?’</p><p>One marquee player in defense tech is Epirus Inc., which makes electronic weapons capable of zapping drones out of the sky. The company is prepared to spend as much as $50 million to build a new facility in Oklahoma this year to make the high-powered microwave devices that can identify and disable hostile drones.</p><p>CEO Andy Lowery says he will be able to increase production by 2027 to as many as 100 units a year from the current handful of prototypes now in use. But whether he’ll be able to sell those units once he makes them is less clear.</p><p>“We know this is going to be needed, but I’m scared. Where’s the paperwork?” Lowery said. “For me to put a shovel in the ground I want the order.”</p><p>The biggest companies in the industry have already decided that building big manufacturing facilitiesis worth the risk. For example, Anduril, which closed a$2.5 billion funding roundlast month, is in the process of building out a sprawling megafactory in Ohio. Called Arsenal-1, the complex is the sizeof 87 football fields. Itwill include at least nine buildings and ultimately employ around 4,500 people manufacturing nearly all of Anduril’s drones, missiles, mini-fighter jets and other products.</p><p>Arsenal-1 is intended to be the first of several such large-scale undertakings in the coming years, the company has said, as it works toward building advanced manufacturing systems designed to be quicklyreplicated in other US and allied locations.</p><p>Meanwhile, Saronic, which raised $600 million earlier this year, is spending $2.5 million to build a modern shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha and an additional $200 million to renovate an existing shipyard. Saronic CEO and co-founder Dino Mavrookas said his company is “on a mission” to bring back shipbuilding on a scale not seen since World War II, and is seeking to double its employee countto 700 by the end of this year.</p><p>So far, Saronic has collected just$33 million in contracts from the federal government, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Government. But with a new partnership and at least three new ship products this year, Mavrookas expects more.</p><p>Untested</p><p>Shipbuilding, likerocket factory construction, could help the US meet a critical need. America builds less than 1% of the world’s new ships per year, while China produces roughly half. The issue is urgent enough that the Trump administration recently issued anexecutive ordercalling for more construction. Companies like Saronic could play a key role in advancing naval technology while helping the US catch up to potential adversaries.</p><p>However, even if the orders come in, there’s no guarantee that new Silicon Valley technology will play the role technologistshope it will. As more companies hustle to lock down US supply chains, design modern factories and staff assembly lines in anticipation of increased demand — they have yet to prove new technology will work as promised, or that the new factories can handle a massive production surge.</p><p>“They are untested. I have an open question about whether these companies can actually scale production of these new weapons systems,” said Becca Wasser, defense deputy director for the Center for a New America Security. “They say they can do it, but mass production is really, really hard.”</p><p>Moving fast in defense manufacturing requires many pieces of a production puzzle to come together at the same time. Neros, which is backed by Founders Fund andSequoia Capital, is struggling to find enough motors from a US-based supplier to produce 10,000 drones a month. After working for months to expand production, the startup haslocated a monthly supply of only around 3,000 motors so far — enough to fulfill its current orders, but well short of its ultimate goal of 1 million a year.</p><p>Despite the obvious challenges that come with manufacturing, swathes of Silicon Valley appear undeterred. Y Combinator Managing Director Jared Friedman said a combination of patriotism and a sense of opportunity has galvanized many of the young entrepreneurs that come through the popular tech accelerator. Where software once was the obvious choice for ambitious founders, todaya growing numberwant to make drones, robots, ships and other advanced hardware.</p><p>“What’s going to be the next big thing? What smart, young people want to work on,” Friedman said, adding that he expects the revenue to eventually follow the investments. “I’m quite optimistic that investors are predicting the future correctly.”</p><p>More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com</p><p>©2025 Bloomberg L.P.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM PDT</time></p> Silicon Valley’s $4 billion gamble on defense manufacturing – Silicon Valley	查看 10588	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 07:31:54 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word
3228129	无图 <p>(Bloomberg/Felice Maranz and Ryan Vlastelica) — Earnings season for a handful of megacap tech firms has morphed into capex season with the AI arms race showing no signs of slowing.</p><p>Focus will be on how much the behemoths Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. plan to dish out to keep up with competitors like Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. as they build out infrastructure and software to power artificial intelligence applications.</p><p>The answer — estimated at around $70 billion in each company’s current fiscal year — may matter more to investors than actual profits and will go a long way to determining whether blistering rallies in the shares will persist. Both report after the close Wednesday.</p><p>For nearly two years now, investors have continued to shower Big Tech with cash as the companies churned out lavish profits and then reinvested hundreds of billions of dollars into AI. Now, with Microsoft and Meta having notched rallies north of 40% from April lows, analysts worry massive outlays without corresponding AI profits could dent investor enthusiasm.</p>Related Articles Economic upswing sprouts on multiple fronts in downtown San Jose, report shows SAP to buy San Francisco-based HR software firm SmartRecruiters Reddit stock surges higher on strong advertising projections Coinbase falls after revenue misses estimates on lower volumes Bitcoin pulls back to three-week low after record-breaking July <p>“If a company is saying, maybe we’ll see an AI benefit in five years, we’re no longer at the point where that will get a pass,” Gabriela Santos, chief strategist for the Americas at JPMorgan Asset Management, said in an interview. “Valuations are mattering more and more, and valuation especially matters if a company can’t grow sales as fast as expected, or as quickly as capex.”</p><p>Microsoft is little changed on Wednesday. Meta rose 0.1%.</p><p>Microsoft is expected to report about $18 billion in capital spending in the quarter ended June 30, an increase of nearly 30% from a year ago. Sales at the software giant are forecast to rise 14%. Meta, meanwhile, is expected to show $16.4 billion in spending, double from the year-ago period, while revenue will rise 15%, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.</p><p>Last week provided a hopeful marker for Big Tech bulls. Alphabet shares rose as the company boosted its capex forecast 13% to $85 billion after delivering better-than-expected earnings. A gain in the week erased what had been a loss in 2025.</p> <p> </p><p>The bar is likely higher for Meta and Microsoft when it comes to spending, not least because their shares have rallied about 20% this year versus Alphabet’s 3.4% gain. They also have different approaches to AI than Alphabet’s search-driven focus, with Microsoft teaming with OpenAI and Meta trying to develop “super intelligence” with an army of engineers, lured with massive pay packages.</p><p>Last quarter, AI spending proved somewhat beneficial. Meta’s strength was credited to AI improving ad targeting, and Microsoft saw a similar tailwind with its cloud business.</p><p>“Microsoft is investing aggressively into AI, which looks like the right strategy if you have a long-term view on the stock,” Daniel Flax, a senior research analyst at Neuberger Berman, said.</p><p>Santos struck a more cautious tone specifically on AI outlays.</p><p>“We’re really honing in on margins this quarter,” she said. “It is still all about ROI, and what companies can grow their sales faster than what they’re invested into AI capex.”</p><p>With capex swelling at both companies, neither can afford to falter in the businesses that have generated billions in cash flow in recent years — a misstep Flax thinks both can avoid.</p><p>“Microsoft is executing extremely well on its cloud opportunity,” he said.</p><p>Azure, the OpenAI investment, and AI assistant “Copilot” should ease worries about spending, said Krishna Chintalapalli, portfolio manager and tech sector head at Parnassus Investments.</p><p>“Those are all huge and growing businesses, and Microsoft seems like it has less risk in its non-AI business, where there is steady recurring revenue,” he said.</p><p>Meta’s AI bets also make sense to investors. The company has “multiple ways to earn a return on AI spending,” according to Michael McKinnon, who manages more than $40 billion as a portfolio manager at Artisan Partners and holds Meta shares.</p><p>He cited the ability to improve efficiency and increase both user engagement and the return on ad spend for its customers as ways for AI to drive growth, in addition to the ability to create new business categories, such as with its smart glasses.</p><p>This is a “very different kind of spending than what we saw a couple years ago, when it was spending $20 billion on Reality Labs,” which was a “low-probability bet that didn’t justify the level of investment Meta was throwing at it.”</p><p>Still, with trillion-dollar valuations and P/E ratios near or above long-term averages, investors will likely remain cautious as the results roll in. Option-derived implied moves for the shares following the reports are relatively muted, with Microsoft at 4% and Meta at 6.1%.</p><p>“Historically, high or rising capex is a negative factor, but the more profitable the company is, the more it turns into a positive factor,” said Tony DeSpirito, global chief investment officer of BlackRock Fundamental Equities. “That’s why these big tech companies are getting treated differently than another company might.”</p><p>Top Tech Stories</p>Apple Inc. has lost its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta Platforms Inc., marking the latest setback to the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence efforts.Samsung Electronics Co.’s surprise $16.5 billion chipmaking deal with Tesla Inc. has breathed new life into a foundry business all but written off by many investors.Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise as much as $5 billion in a new round of funding that would value the artificial intelligence startup at $170 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. formed a strategic alliance with Teco Electric & Machinery Co., a pact that should help the iPhone-assembler advance its push into artificial intelligence hardware.Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to land a deal that could give it ongoing access to critical OpenAI technology, an agreement that would remove a major obstacle to the startup’s efforts to become a for-profit enterprise.<p>Earnings Due Wednesday</p>Earnings Premarket:Blackbaud Inc. 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3228128	无图 <p>(Bloomberg/Liana Baker and Jake Bleiberg) — Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion.</p><p>Palo Alto will pay CyberArk investors $45 per share and 2.2005 shares of Palo Alto stock, according to a statement on Wednesday. The companies said the value implies a 26% premium to CyberArk shares on a volume weighted average over 10 days before the Wall Street Journal reported on the acquisition talks. The transaction is expected to close during the second half of Palo Alto Networks’ fiscal 2026.</p><p>The deal is Chief Executive Officer Nikesh Arora’s largest since taking the helm in 2018 and gives Palo Alto Networks a suite of identity security tools, which help users determine who should have certain access rights within an organization. These products can also be used with artificial intelligence programs, and will be in higher demand as more companies use AI agents to perform tasks, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Damian Reimertz said in a note.</p>Related Articles Economic upswing sprouts on multiple fronts in downtown San Jose, report shows SAP to buy San Francisco-based HR software firm SmartRecruiters Reddit stock surges higher on strong advertising projections Coinbase falls after revenue misses estimates on lower volumes Bitcoin pulls back to three-week low after record-breaking July <p>Shares of CyberArk had gained 30% this year, giving it a market value of more than $21 billion. That increase includes the 13% jump on Tuesday. The stock was little changed before markets opened on Wednesday. Shares of Palo Alto fell 5.9%.</p><p>Cybersecurity providers are becoming more acquisitive, with some looking to offer a full platform of products to customers that are seeking to save money by reducing vendors. Alphabet Inc. agreed to buy the cyber startup Wiz this year for $32 billion to add to its Google Cloud business. In April, Palo Alto announced plans to buy the startup Protect AI, which specializes in securing AI and machine learning applications and models.</p><p>JPMorgan Chase & Co. advised Palo Alto and Qatalyst Partners advised CyberArk.</p><p>(Updates with more detail in the second paragraph and premarket trading in the fourth paragraph.)</p><p>More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com</p> <p> </p><p>©2025 Bloomberg L.P.</p> <p>Originally Published: <time>July 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM PDT</time></p> Palo Alto Networks reaches $25 billion deal for CyberArk – Silicon Valley	查看 2581	硅谷新闻网	2025-07-30 08:59:14 2025-08-02 22:23:52	word

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