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Tech Billionaires’ Project to Build a New City Accused of Tricking People Into Signing Petition
California Forever, a tech billionaire-backed project to develop a new city on hundreds of acres of Bay Area farmland, is entering a critical phase. After buying nearly a billion dollars worth of land in Solano County, the project’s developers now need to convince at least 13,000 county residents to support a ballot initiative that would…
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Time’s 100 Most Important People in AI Focuses on the Big CEOs… Plus Grimes
A good way to get the full scope of the current debate surrounding AI is to know the people involved. Time magazine, in all its wisdom, now has its own list of the top 100 figures most important to the AI debate to help us all get to know the players. There are a hell…
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Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area
New renderings show that the tech billionaire-backed city from ‘California Forever’ would be a pseudo-Mediterranean vacation spot but with more solar panels.
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Flying Taxi Company Joby Aviation Goes Public While Touting Itself as ‘Uber of the Air’
Joby Aviation made its debut Wednesday as a publicly trade company on the New York Stock Exchange surging over 25% after opening at a price of $US10.62 ($14). Joby is currently promising air taxi service for the public by 2024, an ambitious plan for its electric vertical-take-off and landing vehicles, known as eVTOL.