Sequoia Capital incubator launched; AutoX corners Shanghai robotaxi market

#China #startups - Last month Sequoia Capital’s first domestic industry incubation center - “Sequoia Digital Intelligent Industry Incubation Center” - was officially opened in Shanghai Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island. (China Potion)

#China #robotaxis - AutoX has seemingly came out of nowhere in 2018 and has been leading the pack in self-driving services ever since. It’s not poised to corner its home market, the globally strategic city of Shanghai. (ZDNet)

#China #CBDC - Beijing has announced it is launching a major expansion of trails to test a digital version of its yuan currency. The new cryptocurrency, is being developed by the People’s Bank of China, (International Investment)

#SouthKorea #education - High school students in South Korea will be given the choice to take artificial intelligence classes as early as the second semester of next year, according to the education ministry on Monday. (KoreaBiz)

#Singapore #education - DBS Bank will run online tutorials for employees to pick up fundamentals of AI and machine learning, so they can eventually programme their own autonomous race car for the AWS DeepRacer league. (ZDNet)

#China #US #tradedeal - It’s in the interest of the U.S. and China to have a little more time to review the progress of the phase one trade deal due to outstanding issues between the two, said David Dollar, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. (CNBC)

#China #US #blackslist - China’s tech giants, starting with Huawei and now TikTok and Tencent, are facing mounting pressure from the Trump Administration over their US operations amid national security and data privacy concerns. Who will be next? (SCMP)

#China #US #tradewar - Presidential candidate Joe Biden released his Plan to Make in America last week and in it you can see that his plan is not to go easy on China. Here are some takeaways from his plan, which sounds a lot like Trump’s. (Forbes)

#China #US #Huaweiban - The US administration Monday expanded its sanctions on China’s Huawei, a move aimed at further limiting the tech giant’s access to computer chips and other technology. (AFP)

#China #US #AIrace - Combining decades of experience advancing frontier technologies, on the one hand, and analyzing national security decision making, on the other, we have been collaborating over the past year in an effort to understand the national security implications of China’s great leap forward in AI. (Strategic Study India)

#China #drones - Chinese researchers have used drones to monitor the living condition of Tibetan antelopes and have captured the 60,000 population of the species in Nagqu, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua)

#India #elephants - Records show that the Siliguri-Jalapaiguri railway line has the largest number of fatal collisions involving elephants in the country. An acoustic detector developed using machine learning helps stop elephants getting hit by trains in India. (ZDNet)