China is likely to see 300,000 driverless cabs operate in its four top-tier cities as early as 2030, buoyed by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and its highly competitive electric vehicle (EV) sector, UBS said on Thursday. The number of robotaxis on the mainland was expected to jump to 4 million by the late 2030s,…
Chinese internet giant Baidu plans to launch its robotaxis on rideshare app Lyft in Germany and Britain in 2026, pending regulatory approval, the two companies said on Monday. Last month, Baidu announced a similar agreement with Uber in Asia and the Middle East as it seeks to take pole position in the competitive autonomous driving…
Wall Street’s “Barbarians at the Gate” are slowing down after nearly 25 years of beating the stock market. Earlier this month, investment firm Hamilton Lane issued a report showing that the MSCI World Index, a leading stock market indicator, beat out private equity returns for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000….
Hopes are fading that the US will respond to a Chinese offer to exchange moon samples, with no word yet from Nasa on what it could swap. Space officials in the two countries have been negotiating Chinese access to Apollo lunar samples in exchange for Chang’e-5 samples being loaned to US scientists. But while China…