Alibaba-backed autonomous driving darling Deeproute sets sight on Europe carmakers

September 5, 2023
Deeproute.ai, the Shenzhen-headquartered robotaxi startup with $350 million in funding and over 500 employees worldwide, is aiming to open an operations center in Germany in 2024. The move will make it yet another Chinese mobility upstart to set up a physical presence in Germany, home to some of the world’s largest automakers, as they venture abroad. The […]

Guide to 3 Energy Stocks Buys

September 5, 2023
Record-high demand for crude oil and tight supplies amid extended oil output cuts will likely push energy prices higher, driving the energy sector’s growth prospects. Given favorable conditions in the…

Real-time flight rewards search engine Point.me raises $10M

September 5, 2023
Point.me, an online search engine and concierge service that makes it easy to discover real-time reward flight options, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by by Thayer Ventures. The platform checks for flights on 33 loyalty programs across more than 150 airlines to uncover real-time award flight options. The New York-based startup […]

A closer look at e/OS: Murena’s privacy-first ‘deGoogled’ Android alternative

September 5, 2023
Murena is in the business of deGoogling Android smartphones in the name of privacy. The French/European firm has been doing this for around five years, as a not-for-profit foundation — but also, in more recent years, opening a for-profit arm that sells devices running its alternative, anti-tracking OS. It’s hardware agnostic, loading its open source […]

We know remarkably little about how AI language models work

September 5, 2023
AI language models are not humans, and yet we evaluate them as if they were, using tests like the bar exam or the United States Medical Licensing Examination. The models tend to do really well in these exams, probably because examples of such exams are abundant in the models’ training data. Yet, as my colleague…