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Global media leaders gather in Xinjiang to navigate AI’s transformative impact

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URUMQI, China, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — At a time when the world is increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence (AI), media leaders from around the globe gathered in the vibrant heart of northwest China’s Xinjiang on Monday to discuss the opportunities and challenges brought about by AI.

As the 6th World Media Summit unfolds in Urumqi, capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, more than 500 attendees from over 106 countries and regions discussed topics under the theme “AI and Media Transformation.”

Representatives from 208 institutions, including media outlets, government agencies and international organizations, engaged in discussions highlighting the transformative impact of AI on the global media industry. They examined the media’s evolving role and responsibilities amid this technological revolution.

The summit released a joint statement emphasizing the importance of rationally adopting AI technologies while upholding journalistic ethics and professional standards.

The statement called for enhanced collaboration within the global media sector to share advancements in AI development, thereby facilitating high-quality development worldwide.

“We should proactively align with the technological wave, closely track the advancement of AI, particularly generative technologies like ChatGPT and Sora, and seize every opportunity for media innovation,” Fu Hua, president of Xinhua News Agency, said in his keynote address.

Media leaders underscored the importance of innovation fueled by AI, a viewpoint reflected in the findings of a global survey conducted by Xinhua Institute, a think tank under Xinhua. The survey is part of a think tank report titled “Responsibility and Mission of News Media in AI Era,” which was unveiled at Monday’s event.

The survey reveals that over half of the interviewed media organizations have already incorporated generative AI into their operations.

According to the report, technologies such as algorithmic recommendations, voice interaction, and image generation are increasingly being applied across various stages of news collection, production, distribution, reception, and feedback.

Describing opportunities and challenges that AI brings to media development as “enormous, even disruptive,” Fu underlined the importance of “humans having the final say in human-machine interaction.”

“We should move beyond ‘tech-centric thinking’ and effectively leverage the initiative of editors and reporters,” he said.

Speaking at the summit, Andrey Kondrashov, director general of Russian news agency TASS, said that AI serves merely as a tool. Media’s primary responsibility — creating high-quality content that is authentic, trustworthy, and meaningful — still rests with people, Kondrashov said.

Media executives warned of significant risks and challenges brought by AI, such as fake news, filter bubbles, deepfakes, and privacy theft.

According to the survey unveiled in the think tank report, nearly 30 percent of the interviewed media outlets expressed uncertainty regarding whether the benefits of generative AI outweigh its drawbacks.

A notable 76.4 percent of the respondents voiced concerns about potential “distortion and misalignment of news leads and materials,” and 61.1 percent expressed worries about “copyright and liability issues.”

Gan Ling-Sze, vice president of Reuters News Agency Asia Pacific, said that the advancement of generative AI will bring an increased risk for well-produced misinformation and disinformation. “In a world where there is so much content, the need for trusted sources of news, robust fact-checking and transparency will only grow.”

At a recent high-level meeting in Beijing, senior officials of four major global wire services — Xinhua, Reuters, The Associated Press (AP), and Agence France-Presse — noted that news agencies should actively harness AI to empower journalism while building guardrails to mitigate risks. They said the media should adhere to journalistic standards and stay committed to providing audiences with credible, accurate and objective news.

Fu said Xinhua is willing to work with media peers to establish a transnational, cross-regional AI media lab. He emphasized the importance of enhancing AI-related experience and achievement sharing to help bridge the “digital divide,” calling on global media to set professional standards to maintain journalistic ethics in the AI era.

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL VIEW OF XINJIANG

This year’s summit is jointly organized by Xinhua and the Xinjiang regional government.

As the global media community gathered for the summit to discuss safeguarding the core values of journalism — objectivity and truth — they were offered a valuable opportunity to gain firsthand insights into Xinjiang.

Mary Schiavo, an aviation analyst for an international media outlet, said that Xinjiang parallels what is going on in AI — people don’t know too much about it, but they’ve heard a lot. “It’s highly significant for the summit to be held in Xinjiang. By coming here, seeing Xinjiang yourself is really enlightening.”

“As we gather at this summit today, we have the opportunity to strengthen the credibility of information as we confront disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech,” said Siddharth Chatterjee, United Nations development system resident coordinator in China.

In his speech, Ma Xingrui, secretary of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China, described the summit as a great opportunity for journalists to gain firsthand experience of Xinjiang.

Boasting a diverse cultural tapestry, Xinjiang, with about one-sixth of China’s territory, has demonstrated robust economic growth in recent years. In 2023, it ranked among the top five provincial-level regions nationwide across six major indicators including GDP growth, investment levels, consumption rates, and income of residents.

Located at the heart of the Silk Road Economic Belt, Xinjiang is becoming increasingly vital as a hub connecting Asia and Europe while serving as a key gateway for China’s westward opening up.

Established in late 2023, the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone, which comprises three iconic areas in Urumqi, Kashgar, and Horgos, and the region’s integrated bonded areas have become important engines driving Xinjiang’s foreign trade.

According to Guo Shusong, an official of the management committee of the comprehensive bonded zone in Kashgar, the region’s foreign trade volume is expected to reach 100 billion yuan (about 14 billion U.S. dollars) this year. “As a vanguard of China’s westward opening up, it is highly anticipated that the foreign trade volume here will even reach 1 trillion yuan one day.”

“I am excited to visit Xinjiang, a region that epitomizes advanced open development. This area represents a harmonious blend of tradition and technological innovation. I am optimistic that through collaborative learning, we can achieve remarkable successes together,” said Tamas Kovacs, CEO of Hungary’s ATV Media Group.

As Xinjiang enters its best period of high-quality development in history, the summit is in the nick of time to better tell the story of a real, vibrant, and beautiful Xinjiang.

The high-quality development and high-level opening up of Xinjiang are inseparable from sincere communication, mutual trust, and practical cooperation, said Erkin Tuniyaz, chairman of the regional government of Xinjiang.

“We invite media friends to come to Xinjiang on reporting or sightseeing trips, and share the true stories of the region with the world,” Tuniyaz said.

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Massive Gaming, Neowiz, and Kangwon Land Launched ‘Shen Shou Wan fu’ Slot Machine Offline

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‘Shen Shou Wan fu’ is an online slot game that features three powerful guardians, symbolizing immense wealth

Now available as physical slot machines in offline casinos through a collaboration with Kangwon Land

MVG plans to expand distribution with exclusive B2B rights to online channels for slot games

SYDNEY, Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Massive Gaming(“MVG”) announced that it has launched the ‘Shen Shou Wan fu (神兽万福)’ slot game, co-developed with Neowiz, MVG’s parent company, and Kangwon Land, which hosts the only casino in South Korea open to locals. The game is now available in offline venues as slot machines.

‘Shen Shou Wan fu’ is an online slot game featuring motifs of the Golden Dragon (JIN LONG), Phoenix (FENGHUANG), and Haetae (XIEZHI), which symbolize luck and prosperity.

The slot machine debuted in offline casino venues. Key personnel from MVG and Neowiz worked closely on the art resources and software design of ‘Shen Shou Wan fu’, ensuring a seamless integration of creative and technical expertise. Kangwon Land managed the slot machine’s hardware design and manufacturing. This launch marks the first commercialization of software-based products through public-private collaboration in South Korea’s casino market.

After successfully establishing ‘Shen Shou Wan fu’ in the Korean market, MVG is ready to leverage this success for aggressive global sales. Holding exclusive rights to the slot game, MVG plans to expand its presence in the regulated gaming market by targeting key regions with strategic marketing and distribution.

A representative stated, “We are pleased to showcase our slot game in offline casinos with Kangwon Land,” adding plans to introduce diverse content for global markets.

Massive Gaming(MVG), a prominent B2B iGaming content provider and a subsidiary of Neowiz (KOSDAQ:095660), offers a diverse range of slot, table, and crash games, as well as an advanced Casino Management System and Live Streaming Services. With brands like Whale House, known for its unique slot games, and Blitzcrown, focused on non-traditional gaming experiences, MVG leads in innovative gaming solutions. Committed to high-quality service and technological excellence, MVG continues to expand its global presence. Learn more at: https://massivegaming.io/

 

 

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LG Display Unveils 4th-Generation OLED Panel Optimized for AI Era

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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, continues to lead the way in large-sized OLED technology by unveiling its fourth-generation OLED TV panel. 33% brighter than the previous generation and optimized for the AI TV era, it is the industry’s first-ever OLED display to achieve a maximum brightness as high as 4,000 nits (1 nit is the brightness produced by a candle).

Panels with both high brightness and energy efficiency are essential for AI TVs, as they use upscaling that analyzes content in real time to deliver ultra-high picture quality of up to 8K. The industry also considers higher brightness to be a key picture quality factor because it enables more vivid images that are akin to natural human vision.

LG Display’s fourth-generation OLED TV panel meets the performance demands of the most advanced AI TVs, interacting in real-time with the TV’s on-device AI to deliver the perfect picture in any environment.   

The new panel’s innovation centers on a Primary RGB Tandem structure, which is LG Display’s proprietary technology that uses independent stacks of RGB elements to produce light. It had previously used a three-stack light source, with two layers of blue elements emitting relatively short energy wavelengths alongside red, green, and yellow elements in a single layer.

The Primary RGB Tandem structure applied to the fourth-generation OLED TV panel organizes the light source into four stacks by adding two layers of blue elements and independent layers of red and green elements. It improves maximum brightness by increasing the amount of light produced by each layer compared to the previous structure.

As well as increasing maximum brightness, LG Display has raised the latest OLED panel generation’s color brightness. Color purity is enhanced by separating the red, green, and blue elements – the three primary colors of light – into distinct layers, resulting in a color brightness of 2,100 nits, a 40% improvement over the previous generation (1,500 nits).

In addition, energy efficiency has been maximized in line with the significantly higher expected power consumption of AI TVs. By enhancing the fourth-generation OLED TV panel’s structure and power supply system, LG Display has reduced its temperature and achieved around 20% greater energy efficiency than the previous generation (in the case of a 65-inch panel).

It also delivers a customer experience that pushes the limits of display with stunning picture quality featuring perfect blacks and rich colors in any environment.

In general, a display’s color reproduction is affected by external light. As the screen reflects ambient light in a bright room, black may appear gray or overlapping reflections of nearby objects might disrupt the viewing experience. For example, while watching content featuring a night sky in a living room in the middle of the day, any sense of immersion would be broken if the sky appears foggy or if reflected furniture overlaps on the screen.

To solve this customer inconvenience, LG Display has developed a special film that offsets both light reflected from the display’s surface and light absorbed and reflected inside the panel. With the advantage of this ultra-low reflection technology, the company’s fourth-generation OLED TV panel blocks 99% of internal and external light reflections, realizing perfect black just like in a movie theater with the lights off even in a midday living room setting (500 lux).

A display’s color gamut and accuracy also decrease dramatically as the viewing environment gets brighter. However, this TV panel sees virtually no change in color gamut and offers 100% color accuracy at 500 lux. It is therefore the only display to overcome the viewing environment limitations of conventional displays.

Meanwhile, the fourth-generation OLED TV panel provides differentiated customer value through human-friendly technologies, such as by emitting only 45% blue light compared with the 70-80% level that would typically be produced by an LCD screen. Blue light is known to negatively affect users’ vision and circadian rhythms.

It additionally stands out as a sustainable display by adopting eco-friendly methods in the entire product life cycle from development to mass production, including using more than 90% fewer plastic raw materials than LCDs and improving the recycling rate of end-of-life product parts to over 92.7%.

LG Display will apply its fourth-generation OLED TV panel to its top-of-the-line mass-produced lineup this year to consolidate its dominance in the premium TV market.

The company then plans to gradually apply its Primary RGB Tandem technology to its Gaming OLED lineup, targeting the high-end gaming market with a diverse range of panels. This already includes the world’s fastest monitor panel equipped with the industry’s highest response speed and refresh rate, which are important specifications for gaming monitors, as well as bendable panels that adjust their curvature according to the gaming content.

“The fourth-generation OLED panel is the essence of innovation that exceeds the limits of existing displays by applying LG Display’s unique technologies such as Primary RGB Tandem and ultra-low reflection technology,” said Hyeon-woo Lee, Senior Vice President and Head of the Large Display Business Unit at LG Display. He added, “We will provide an unprecedented customer experience along with superior picture quality and user-friendly technology while strengthening our OLED technology leadership.”

About LG Display

LG Display Co., Ltd. [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220] is the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, including thin-film transistor liquid crystal and OLED displays. The company manufactures display panels in a broad range of sizes and specifications primarily for use in TVs, notebook computers, desktop monitors, automobiles, and various other applications, including tablets and mobile devices. LG Display currently operates manufacturing facilities in Korea and China, and back-end assembly facilities in Korea, China, and Vietnam. The company has approximately 70,707 employees operating worldwide. For more news and information about LG Display, please visit www.lgdisplay.com.

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Joo Yeon Jennifer Ha, Manager, Communication Team
Email: hjy05@lgdisplay.com

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Agoda: Tokyo crowned top international destination for welcoming ‘The Year of the Snake’

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SINGAPORE, Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As the Lunar New Year approaches, digital travel platform Agoda reveals the top 10 most sought-after cities in Asia to celebrate the start of ‘The Year of the Snake’. Japanese cities emerged as tourist favorites for the holiday period with Tokyo taking the top spot.

Tokyo is followed by Bangkok (Thailand), Osaka (Japan), Fukuoka (Japan), and Seoul (South Korea) rounding out the top five based on accommodation search data on Agoda. The list continues with Hong Kong, Sapporo (Japan), Singapore, Phuket (Thailand), and Hat Yai (Thailand) completing the top ten.

Asian travelers are drawn to celebrate the Lunar New Year in metropolitan hubs such as Tokyo, Bangkok, and Seoul. These cities offer an exciting array of festivities and cultural experiences, making them attractive destinations for a festive getaway. The rankings also reveal that travelers seeking international destinations enjoy a mix of climates, from the cooler weather in Osaka and Sapporo to the warmer temperatures in Phuket and Hat Yai.

Hiroto Ooka, Associate Vice President North Asia at Agoda shared, “The Lunar New Year is a special time for travelers, and it’s exciting to see Japanese cities like Tokyo and Osaka being such sought-after destinations during the holiday. Agoda is thrilled to be part of this journey, helping travelers welcome a prosperous ‘Year of the Snake’ and celebrate in style with great deals on flights, accommodations and activities.”

The Lunar New Year holiday marks new beginnings and the arrival of Spring, making it a popular travel period as people look to reunite with family and friends. ‘The Year of the Snake’ symbolizes rebirth and transformation and is said to present an auspicious opportunity for embracing self-discovery and exploring new horizons. Known for their association with good fortune, snakes inspire travelers to shed the old and welcome the new — whether by rediscovering familiar places or venturing abroad during this festive season. 

As travelers prepare for their Lunar New Year holidays, Agoda offers exceptional deals on over 5 million holiday properties, more than 130,000 flight routes, and over 300,000 activities available on the platform. Travelers can find the latest deals on the Agoda app or at agoda.com/deals.

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