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Krypton Evening News | LG New Energy will supply batteries for Google’s largest “integrated light and storage” project; Yuanbao and JD.com AI Agent officially opened up the mini program ecosystem; Japanese retail investors’ net short position in the U.S. dollar soared to 2.79 trillion yen, the highest in history since 2008

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Major Companies: Meituan, Qingju, and Hello Bicycle Price Adjustments Recently, Meituan Bicycle, Didi Qingju, and Hello Bicycle have successively raised their billing rules in Beijing and other cities. The three major platforms have invariably adopted a combination strategy of "increasing the starting price and lengthening the basic riding time": the starting price has generally been adjusted from the previous 1.5 yuan/30 minutes to 1.88 yuan to 1.99 yuan/60 minutes. This has become a large-scale collective price adjustment in the shared bicycle industry in recent years. (Financial Times) The first Guazi second-hand car offline direct store store officially opened today. 36Kr learned that the first Guazi second-hand car offline direct store store, Suzhou direct store, officially opened today. According to reports, Guazi has returned to offline stores this time, focusing on 100% direct sales of cars by individuals. At present, melon seeds have been launched simultaneously in similar stores in Shenyang and Jinan, and are being promoted nationwide. LG New Energy will supply batteries for Google's largest "integrated light and storage" project. According to industry insiders on Wednesday, South Korea's LG New Energy will supply batteries for Google's largest solar and energy storage project, a move that marks the company's further expansion of energy infrastructure business related to the surge in power demand for AI data centers. Google and renewable energy developer Cypress Creek Energy jointly announced the "Steel River Energy Center" project in Arkansas. The project will initially be equipped with 1.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar power generation capacity and approximately 2 gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery energy storage systems; by 2029, the scale will be expanded to 2.5 GW of solar power generation and 2.9 GWh of energy storage capacity. LG New Energy is expected to supply its North American-produced JF2 DC Link system, which uses lithium iron phosphate battery technology. Sources estimate the order is worth hundreds of billions of won. (Sina Finance) Weimob’s AI sales digital employee Weimeng Xingtuo has launched internal testing. 36Kr learned that on July 15, Weimob Group announced that its AI sales digital employee Weimeng Xingtuo for B2B scenarios has officially launched internal testing. This product covers the entire link of "user instructions → intention analysis → strategy generation → automatic customer search → intelligent outbound calls → intention aggregation". The salesperson only needs to issue a command in natural language.