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Chapter 373 The era of giant enterprises may be coming
After the New Lion City plan was announced, details about Lion City’s changes were gradually exposed and various speculations emerged.

Some media with international influence have attempted to draw a final conclusion on this series of events.

Among them, The Times used a rare conspiracy theory perspective to report on the great changes in Lion City.

“The era of giant enterprises may be coming

Alpha Technologies' actions are breaking the rules, but China and America are turning a blind eye to such behavior for the sake of their own interests.

It is obvious that in the past six months, Alpha is becoming the real master of Lion City. In the last century, we have conducted various discussions on the forms of monopoly enterprises, whether it is a trust, a conglomerate, a cartel or a syndicate. There has never been a giant enterprise defined by economists like today's Alpha Technology that has such a deep control over a country.

Yes, it is control, not influence.

Alpha Technology is even trying to implement this control by building a new Lion City. Alpha Technology is not a monopoly enterprise. They have many competitors in the field of artificial intelligence. They have never tried to explore the upstream hardware field of artificial intelligence technology like Chinese companies. But when Samad showed his ambition, the outside world realized for the first time that Alpha's goals are different from those of enterprises. They are not just aiming at economic benefits, but at an entire country.

In the past, academic circles believed that the end of technology giants had come. Microsoft had Windows and Apple had the iPhone, but they were doomed to end. The products of any company in the world were doomed to end. This situation is constantly happening in today's era.

But when Alpha was on the rise, it made a choice that was completely different from other technology giants. It did not choose to expand its business, launch a new round of innovation, or use its advantages in the field of artificial intelligence to bring industrial revolution to more industries. Instead, it chose to use it to take advantage of information asymmetry.

They used their overwhelming technological advantage to infiltrate Lion City's internal information like a sieve. Lion City was no different from being naked in front of Alpha Technology. They used their absolute advantage in information to complete the transfer of power in just one month. Although on the surface Lion City was no different from the past, with members of parliament, parliament, and administrative agencies all existing, they would continue to perform the same functions in the future as they did in the past.

But everyone knows that everything is different from the past. At the press conference of the new leader of Lion City, Wang Yikang, Alpha Technology CEO Oraz, who was sitting on his left, was swearing the existence of Alpha Technology in a secretive yet straightforward way.

The establishment of the synthetic sand plant in Lion City and the massive New Lion City plan can be seen as a redemption for all the people of Lion City. Alpha Technology has recreated a monopoly industry to compensate for the collapse of the financial industry caused by Alpha Technology.

As for the involvement of artificial intelligence in public affairs, AlphaTech is telling the outside world that we want to use artificial intelligence technology to transform the world. In the past three years, AlphaTech has helped various manufacturing companies to successfully complete factory transformation, and their current goal is to focus on the field of public affairs.

Despite the huge changes in Lion City, America, China and its neighboring Malaysia seemed to be blind to all this and did not respond. America and Chinese companies are shareholders behind Alpha Technology, and Lion City's land reclamation plan needs to be provided by China.

Although China has launched AI computing cards with better performance than Nvidia, AlphaTech still spends a lot of money to buy computing cards from American companies. AlphaTech and Malaysia also have a lot of conflicts of interest. Princess Amina, the daughter of the Malaysian leader, has always been considered the most powerful and staunch supporter of AlphaTech in Malaysia.

Alpha Technology made friends in advance with every force that might affect the great changes in Lion City, ensured that they would not interfere with the established facts through a large amount of interests, and then completed the great changes in just one month. In addition to demonstrating its absolute advantage in information, it also demonstrated its superb organizational and management capabilities.

Alpha Tech showed the world what tech giants can do besides leading technological advancement, social thought transformation, and lifestyle change. Samad, an entrepreneur from the jungles of Malaysia, embodied the social tribalism hidden deep in his subconscious mind. His engulfment of the Lion City revealed a whole new path for tech giants.

Can't Google, whose core business is deeply affected, use similar methods to bring about a huge change in a small country? Once Amazon loses in the competition with Microsoft, it can also imitate AlphaTech's behavior. I have a hunch that at the end of the first half of the 21st century, the huge changes brought about by giant companies will become more and more common, and the clarion call of cyberpunk is not far away from us.

The golden age that Wright talked about has not yet arrived, and the era of giant companies opened by Alpha is just around the corner. "

If you read foreign media frequently, you will know that they are good at setting the tone, but media like the Times have some integrity. The reports that can be published in the official pages are more or less based on facts, rather than imagining that Alpha Technology is controlling Lion City.

But this time, the Times report used a rare amount of speculation to form an article and construct its argument.

It can be said that the foundation is not solid, so how can we guarantee that the arguments built on this foundation are unbreakable?

Obviously, what is reflected behind this is the fear of the Times, or the fear of all wealthy small countries.

In the past, whether it was the revolving door between politics and business in America or in Europe, the relationship between politics and business was more of an exchange of interests. The relationship between the two sides was equal, and even veteran politicians could have a slight advantage.

Alpha’s actions directly tell the giants, don’t be polite, just do it, with the advantage of information gap, can’t they control the parliamentarians? There is no need to be submissive.

For example, Ireland has imposed fines of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of euros on Facebook, alleging that Facebook stores some user passwords in text format.

In the past, Facebook accepted the fine, or the technology giants accepted all European fines. Now Alpha Technologies has paved a way for you, and you can also manipulate European parliamentarians.

To be precise, in the past 16 years, Hilary's email scandal vaguely made the technology giants realize how to play the game. In 20 years, Facebook and Twitter tried to manipulate the election by pushing information. In 24 years, the giant Musk personally came out to support the election.

The giants are gradually realizing their own influence and the extent of their own technological advantages, and past boundaries are being broken bit by bit.

This time, Alpha directly broke the window paper. Before, everyone had been cautiously testing forward step by step in America, testing how far they could go and what level of impact they could produce.

This attempt is limited to the American continent.

Alpha told these giant companies that the technological advantages they possessed would be more lethal to small countries, and it would be a dimensionality reduction attack.

This is also why the Times is afraid.

England is such a "small country". The British Empire may be able to survive because of the complexity and robustness of its organizational structure, but what about Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland?

It is precisely because of this pessimistic expectation of the future development of the world that some people even read a sense of hysteria in the Times' report.

Obviously England couldn't accept this.

The huge changes in Lion City have indeed attracted many people, such as Musk.

He specifically called in his friends, mainly the PayPal gang, who previously led the hunt for Twitter.

That is, in the two months between the end of January and the beginning of April 22 when the information disclosure documents were submitted, Musk quietly purchased 1 million common shares of Twitter on the open market, and his shareholding ratio quickly reached 4%. Therefore, when Musk suddenly surfaced as the largest shareholder of Twitter, the Twitter board of directors did not expect it at all.

The next day, the Twitter board invited Musk to serve as a director in exchange for his promise not to increase his stake and seek a controlling stake, but Musk refused.

Twitter's board of directors quickly launched a poison pill plan, but Musk did not raise his offer to impress the board, but instead adopted a strategy of winning people's hearts. He knew very well that Twitter did not have super voting rights, and the board of directors held less than 2.5% of the shares, and 2.5% of this 2.25% came from Musk's friend Dorsey. Therefore, as long as he got the consent of enough institutional investors, he could force the board of directors to accept his acquisition offer. And behind this acquisition, it is obvious that Musk is not alone, but also a group of Silicon Valley tycoons, who not only prompted Musk to launch a hostile takeover invitation for Twitter, but also directly provided him with financial support.

The many figures who hunted down the PayPal gang behind Twitter include Peter Thiel, Hoffman, Horry, Lechung, etc.

After Alpha completed the hunt for Lion City with more fierce and brutal means, Musk was tempted. After experiencing the betrayal of his interests by the White House, he became more aware that his cooperation with the White House might lead to his being abandoned sooner or later.

No matter how much money he can donate or how well he can put on a show to win supporters, he only has one vote, and the White House obviously needs more than just one vote.

Therefore, he found that the money he had was not proportional to what he actually wanted to get. The more money he had, the more obvious the marginal effect became. Just when he was feeling confused, the huge changes in Lion City woke him up like a bolt of lightning.

Mars is certainly attractive, but the Earth is also not small in area, and this world is not just America.

But he knew that if he wanted to accomplish this, he might not be able to do it on his own, and he needed the support of his old friends.

"Samad is so cool. It took less than two months for the Lee family, which has been entrenched in Lion City for more than half a century, to complete the handover of power." Musk started talking. He knew that these people must be paying special attention to everything that happened in Lion City.

"Elon is moved," Hoffman joked.

"Isn't this obvious? Elon must have a goal in mind, so he came to talk to us," Thiel added.

Steve, one of the few people who is not a member of the PayPal mafia but has made it into the scene, is also an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX: “Let’s guess where Elon’s head is.”

"I got it."

"I guessed it too."

"Don't try to trick me," Musk said.

Don’t you think this is cool? Just think about it, you can transform it according to your will, make it better, and become an ideal country.

We might be able to rebuild a new Roman Empire."

Musk seemed very excited: "Alpha has proposed that artificial intelligence will be heavily involved in public affairs. Isn't this exactly what we want to achieve in America?"

The Deep State, which is hated by everyone present, is, in a sense, a collection of bureaucrats, and artificial intelligence can just kill them.

After experiencing supporting the president, they all gradually realized that using the Alpha approach was much more direct and effective.

“Of course, but the problem is that this is not a small project.

I don't think Samad started taking action only after he founded Alpha Technologies. The process from his idea to action should have occurred much earlier than we know.

It may have taken no less than twenty years of preparation, but we as viewers felt it happened very quickly.

The rapidity of the action on the water does not mean that the preliminary preparations are also hasty. Can we wait another twenty years? "

“It’s a pity that Samad never shows up in public and none of us know him, otherwise we could have a good chat with him.

If we could buy a complete and detailed guide from him, I think we would pay $10 billion without hesitation."

"No, no, no, didn't you all say you guessed what Elon's goal was? You haven't said it yet."

"What's so hard about this? It's obviously South Africa. It has a representative system just like Singapore. There are 400 members of parliament, most of whom are black. Black people have more weaknesses and are easier to control.

South Africa's poor economic situation means that the cost of redemption after turmoil is lower, and South Africa has good natural resources. At the same time, South Africa's geographical location also determines that it can have a certain degree of independence.

What better target than South Africa? "

Musk remained silent. This was a problem that came with knowing someone for too long. He had only made the initial move, but these people had already guessed what he was thinking.

"Elon, let's be honest, we all want to do this.

But the problem is that it is not that simple. We must have a careful enough plan before we take action.

This is a paradox, considering the need for high confidentiality and the need for a lot of artificial intelligence and hacker attacks and defenses to build information advantages.

This will be very difficult, and I think we have to find out as much as possible how Alpha Technology did it before we take action anyway."

"I know Oraz. I've talked to him more than once. I think we can talk to him first, and then contact Samad through him."

“I don’t think we have to choose South Africa. It’s too big and too conspicuous. We should not expect to keep it absolutely secret. Things will be disclosed after they happen. Alpha Technology did it so secretly and quickly, but it has also been exposed one after another.

If our target was South Africa, the impact would be incalculable.

If we choose a smaller target, the time of the incident can be postponed, and the impact after the incident can be within a controllable range. We can be said to be imitating Alpha, rather than surpassing Alpha. "

(End of this chapter)