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Krypton Evening News | Alibaba 1688 will launch an open standard for B2B transaction interconnection in the AI era; Intel and Google Cloud announced a deepening of strategic cooperation; the railway department piloted a 60-day advance ticket booking service
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Source: 36氪
Major companies: Chengda Biotech: Influenza virus split vaccine (high dose) enters Phase I clinical trial 36 Krypton learned that Chengda Biotech announced that the influenza virus split vaccine (high dose) developed by Chengda Biotech (Benxi), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, has been approved for clinical trials by the State Food and Drug Administration, and has completed the preparations for Phase I clinical trials and officially entered the Phase I clinical trial stage. The antigen content of this vaccine is four times that of the conventional dose, and it is suitable for people over 60 years old and high-risk groups. No similar product has been approved for marketing in China, and it is expected to fill the market gap. Suning.com joins hands with artificial intelligence partners to deploy home service robots. 36Kr learned that Biying Technology, a subsidiary of Suning.com, has recently been shortlisted for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s artificial intelligence unveiling project and will work with industrial ecological partners to develop smart home companion robots. This project addresses the needs of home care in the context of aging, combines embodied intelligence technology, and explores the path to commercialization of home robots. Alibaba 1688 will launch an open standard for B2B transaction interconnection in the AI era. On July 17, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Alibaba 1688 announced that it will launch the UTP Universal Trade Protocol (Universal Trade Protocol, referred to as "UTP") at the end of this month. As AI becomes more and more capable of doing business, B2B is evolving into A2A - the buyer's AI directly connects to the factory's AI to automatically complete transactions, but there is a lack of a common industry transaction protocol between different AIs. UTP is equivalent to establishing a unified trading infrastructure for global trade in the A2A era. After the launch of UTP, B2B transactions in the A2A era will have a set of open standards for interconnection. Ant Group’s WAIC showcases a three-layer AI layout for the intelligent business era. On July 17, Ant Group demonstrated a three-layer AI layout for the intelligent business era at WAIC 2026: AI application layer, intelligent business ecosystem layer and technology base layer. In terms of application layer, the number of users of the health AI "Afu" has exceeded 100 million, and an average of more than 10 million health consultations are processed every day; the AI version of Alipay "Abao" has been launched for public testing. In terms of the smart business ecosystem, AI payment has supported 300 million smart smart payments, adapting to 9