🔮 Chinese autonomous vehicles; massive AI models; batteries; Serena Williams, Russia in Ukraine++ #362

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🇨🇳 Chinese autonomous vehicle ambitions
China is racing ahead with the autonomous vehicle future. McKinsey & Co reckons that 60% of journey-miles in China may be autonomous by 2040.

However, their industry may have an unhealthy dependency on American chips. China currently has zero per cent market share for making sub-10…