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Chapter 508 - 334 The Strongest Crawler in History

Chapter 508: Chapter 334 The Strongest Crawler in History

"Running account balances ’online’ for scoring," Gao Yuan opened her company’s ERP backend.

As a qualified entrepreneur, it was impossible for her to rest. Her daily routine could only include keeping up with business news and staying in tune with the dynamics of socio-economic development...

However, she had been quite enjoying this kind of activity over the last couple of days.

It was solely because the new "intelligence" module that had just gone live in the ERP system provided her with a brand-new "work entertainment experience"...

[On the evening of April 27, the People’s Bank, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Foreign Exchange Bureau jointly issued "Guidance on Regulating Asset Management Business of Financial Institutions"...]

[The difficulty of bank fundraising has started to spread to the primary market, as small and medium-sized VC/PE firms begin to experience the coldest capital winter...]

[The tightening of the primary market’s purse strings has made fundraising even more difficult for startups, which in turn has led to the elimination of inferior projects and the squeezing of valuation bubbles...]

[Chang Chun Biological’s delisting from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange is almost certain, it is said to have entered the delisting process and might become the first stock to be delisted due to legal enforcement...]

[New energy subsidy reductions, Ai Dou New Energy’s capital sides are changing...]

Gao Yuan’s fingers paused slightly.

"How come there’s news about the new energy sector in this daily recommended intelligence? I remember I didn’t check this industry in my preferences, did I?"

Gao Yuan curiously clicked on the intelligence detail with her mouse.

The content inside was not much; apart from some public industry analysis reports that were bearish on Ai Dou New Energy’s future prospects, there were also some rumors about intense negotiations between investors and Ai Dou’s executives, which supposedly resulted in some unpleasantness.

Even though the information was a bit scattered, Gao Yuan, with her acute sense for capital, was able to quickly integrate these disjointed pieces of intelligence in her mind and swiftly come to her own judgment...

"A new energy company immersed in crisis... Could it be that he has some ideas about this company?"

Gao Yuan starred the piece of intelligence and made a mental note of it.

["The ’Spider Web’ incident continues to ferment; Yan Dian remains silent while the Renmin Daily editorializes, ’To wear the crown, one must bear its weight.’"

["Misaligned Space-Time" unexpectedly became a hit, and newcomer singer Duan Xiaoxian is attracting attention...]

[Hao Teng officially announces his role in the new drama "Pegasus," with newcomer director Han Fei forming the crew...]

Seeing these two pieces of news, Gao Yuan’s expression became slightly odd.

Meng Lang had just promoted the newcomer, and the movie hadn’t even started filming, yet he was already trending on social media.

She absolutely didn’t believe that without his pushing behind the scenes, the buzz could have happened!

She was just curious how he had managed to ride the wave of popularity. Had his intelligence work extended to the academic world?

Streams of information slipped under Gao Yuan’s fingertips.

Wanting to strategize behind the curtain, to ensure victory from a thousand miles away, was impossible without support from intelligence!

Although it seemed incredible for a corporate ERP to have an intelligence module, this was an organization that had developed an AI as advanced as Zero, claiming to be capable of combating the world’s enemy, the "Night Demon Clan".

Would it be strange for them to have their own intelligence network?

However, Meng Lang naturally didn’t have the leisure to build an intelligence network himself.

This built-in intelligence module in the ERP system was actually more like a crawler-type search engine.

Most of the messages displayed were not confidential, something any keyboard warrior could put together.

But in the vast ocean of internet information, to search and categorize the intelligence you want is an incredibly complex task.

There’s also the issue of efficiency.

If you were to manually search with Baidu, it would basically mean half an hour of work for every ten minutes of ads...

Using it a lot, you’d feel a strong urge to subscribe to avoid the ads!

Now that this built-in search engine was enhanced with Zero’s intelligence, it became more professional and user-friendly.

It could also find the most cutting-edge intelligence specifically needed by the user, automatically filtering out junk ads and useless information.

Even more, it could carry out detailed intelligence gathering for a specific keyword, tailored to the user’s needs.

Obviously, it could greatly improve a manager’s intelligence gathering efficiency and save the time wasted on irrelevant information.

To browse the most accurate information in the shortest time is to help make the best responsive strategy.

Apart from Gao Yuan, some executives at Changqing Biological also had access to the intelligence search function, though at a lower level.

Even though it’s just industry intelligence related to their positions, it can vastly improve the efficiency of the management team.

In the internet age, there is an inexhaustible amount of intelligence and information on public resources.

You can check all your shopping records, food delivery records, and hotel history of the past few years for just a few thousand yuan; almost all your past experiences are transparent.

The difficulty isn’t in obtaining this information, but in extracting the most useful intelligence efficiently from the massive amounts of data.

And the optimal solution to this difficulty... can only be Artificial Intelligence!

The most typical example is the highly military-colored global tracking and positioning system.

In a massive crowd, a search with just one photo can identify and track the target, then carry out precise targeted strikes for surgical decapitation.

It would be unrealistic for humans to compare photos manually, and an absolute disaster for those with prosopagnosia.

The only one capable of accomplishing this arduous task of "spotting the difference" is Artificial Intelligence!

The National Security Agency (NSA) across the ocean, particularly its network warfare intelligence-gathering division known as the "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO).

This department is responsible for the usage of internet tools to engage in similar intelligence gathering operations.

After Snow Light exposed "Prism Gate" in 2013, the mysterious veil of TAO was lifted a corner by the world.

Rumor has it that TAO has over 1,000 employees, of which 600 are hackers...

Why are Hua Wei’s communication devices and Kang Haiwei Vision’s surveillance equipment selling well globally, yet they are feared and targeted?

Without backdoors, it would be difficult for them to use the original Artificial Intelligence technology to steal such intelligence around the world without restraint...

Compared to this brazen "victim" that’s always crying "Stop thief!" everywhere, Meng Lang is much more low-key.

That is, letting Zero use public resources on the internet such as news, forums, Moments, chat groups, and so on for intelligence gathering.

The power of Artificial Intelligence lies in its strong data analysis capability.

As long as Zero is given enough computing power, it can outperform an army of a thousand, one computer rivaling the entire team of a thousand in TAO!

It’s just that Meng Lang doesn’t want to be too showy, and his methods are less blatant than TAO’s.

Of course, if really necessary, he wouldn’t mind enhancing the "engine function" to search for some more hidden information.

With the support of Zero, this "strongest crawler in history."

Not to mention "anti-piracy," it could even restore a "mosaic" back to its original state...

This module is also one of Meng Lang’s attempts.

An attempt to establish an independent intelligence network for the organization.

Extra-temporal intelligence is supported by autobiography, while real-time intelligence relies on big data support.

For example, the development strategy of subordinate enterprises, the more substantial the group, the more prominent the role of the strategic intelligence department.

As the chief CEO of the subsidiary, and an important helmsman of the company, Meng Lang believes it is essential to share the organization’s advanced intelligence capabilities, which are inconvenient to display, with Gao Yuan...

You can’t always rely on underlings to snoop around for gossip, right?

What he equipped for Gao Yuan was not merely a search engine but an entire "Strategic Intelligence Department"...

[Cui Jizhong of Xu Group attends the high-level board meeting of Qin Chuan Pharmaceutical and officially announces the investment in Qin Chuan Pharmaceutical...]

Huh?

Gao Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly when she suddenly came across this news.

No wonder there had been reports from Jiang Wenmin’s side these past few days saying that the negotiations for investing in Qin Chuan Pharmaceutical had reached a deadlock, so they had found a new partner...

Ever since the fall-out with Bai Yu Pharmaceutical, Gao Yuan had instructed Jiang Wenmin to prepare for investing in Qin Chuan Pharmaceutical, but progress had not been very smooth.

Now it seems...

Xu Jingsong’s intent to harm her hasn’t ceased...

It must be tough for him to think of troubling her while his own house is in disorder.

But this makes things somewhat difficult.

Qin Chuan Pharmaceutical and Bai Yu Pharmaceutical are competitors, both occupying no small market share in several active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Both companies are benchmarks in terms of price and quality amongst similar companies, otherwise, they wouldn’t have been chosen by Gao Yuan, planning to incorporate them into her business map.

If neither of these companies can ensure a stable supply channel, then Changqing Biological will have to go the extra mile, spending more effort and money to procure materials from other regions...

This would have a significant impact on her planned industrial ecological layout.

Gao Yuan thought for a moment and typed "Bai Yu Pharmaceutical" into the search bar.

Although there had been a falling out with Bai Yu Pharmaceutical, if there was a chance, she wouldn’t mind executing a surprise counterattack...

Information popped up slowly below, constantly updating.

[Personnel changes in the top management of Bai Yu Pharmaceutical, sales manager Kang Wenhua is transferred to the position of regional manager in XX area...]

Kang Wenhua, the same Bai Yu Pharmaceutical sales manager who had supported Gao Yuan during the last incident of debt collection, had a good relationship with Changqing Biological.

A sales manager being demoted to a regional manager is most likely an act of Bai Yu’s venting his spite for holding a grudge against Changqing Biological.

Gao Yuan clicked and continued browsing.

Through public information, Gao Yuan learned that the shares of Bai Yu Pharmaceutical were relatively concentrated, with the chairman Bai Yu and his wife each holding 35% of the shares, totaling a controlling 70% stake.

However, many sources indicated that the couple’s relationship did not seem very harmonious...

Gao Yuan then entered "Bai Yu" precisely into the search box.

The information box changed again.

This time, it wasn’t just displaying information piece by piece, but more like a person’s resume and history.

Aside from basic information such as birthplace, life history, education, it even had details of the other party’s social platforms, life habits, interpersonal relationships, and travel schedules...

"Hmm?"

When Gao Yuan saw the other party’s recent travel trajectories, she suddenly paused.

Immediately, the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but curve into a smile...

"Hah! Men..."