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Archer Aviation aims to launch network of urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024

TechCrunch

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. United Airlines, which has a major hub in Los Angeles, was one of the investors in the deal.

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Robotaxi pushback grows in Los Angeles as Cruise loses permits

TechCrunch

Less than a month after Waymo’s Los Angeles County expansion, labor organizers and an LA lawmaker are calling for new autonomous-vehicle regulations.

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How an L.A. community of wildfire survivors is getting insurance to pay for contamination testing

Fast Company Tech

All sense of survivors’ guilt was fleeting for those residents whose homes remained standing after wildfires ripped through the Los Angeles area three months ago. The fine print of insurance policies can be frustrating and confusing, and the government has not stepped in to help. “But now there’s no way.”

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Two Leaders Join Benetech’s Senior Team!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. Most recently, Nadine comes to Benetech from Water.org, where she developed and executed the organization’s public affairs strategy. This post originally appeared on Benetech''s Blog.

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Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”

Ars Technica

"Not content with just stealing our works, Cohere also blatantly manufactures fake pieces and attributes them to us, misleading the public and tarnishing our brands."

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Unilever will pull ads from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for the rest of the year

The Verge

“We invest billions of dollars each year to keep our community safe and continuously work with outside experts to review and update our policies,” a Facebook spokesperson told NBC News. “We The groups took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times last Wednesday urging advertisers to participate in the boycott.

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Lacuna raises $16 million in Series A to help cities manage mobility via digital twin

TechCrunch

Lacuna Technologies, a startup that helps cities create and enforce transportation policies by building and managing open-source digital tools, has raised $16 million in a Series A round, bringing the company’s total investment to $33.5 And I define the public right of way as not just 2D, but 3D.

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