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Today is just an AM-tastic day, isn't it?Earlier this morning, we reported on industry pushback against congressional plans to mandate AM radios in all new cars.The topic has been building for some time now-Tesla and BMW dropped AM radio from new electric vehicles some years ago-but it made headlines again in February when Ford revealed that the 2024 Mustang would lose the ability to pick up AM.

Android is doing a pretty good job of colonizing the in-car infotainment ecosystem.At first, Google's operating system started showing up in new vehicles as custom installations, but more recently the company developed Android Automotive, which you can find in new cars from General Motors, Polestar, Volvo, Honda, and soon, both BMW and Volkswagen Group.

Ford Motor has stopped production and shipments of its electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, while it looks into a potential problem with the vehicle's battery pack.As part of our predelivery quality inspections, a vehicle displayed a potential battery issue and we are holding vehicles while we investigate, the company said Tuesday in a statement.

Musk had publicly promised that any major policy changes, like unbanning high-profile accounts, would come after careful consultation.Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints, Musk tweeted in late October, just after closing the $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images Twitter owner Elon Musk has said that the social media company could go bankrupt.This bombshell revelation comes as top Twitter executives and advertisers flee.There's a massive negative cash flow, and bankruptcy is not out of the question, said Musk at a Thursday meeting, according to a recording heard by The New York Times.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk will meet with advertisers on a "Twitter Spaces" discussion on Wednesday.(Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)Elon Musk is meeting with some of Twitter's largest advertisers and marketing partners on Wednesday in an attempt to reassure executives following raucous developments at the microblogging site.

One of the biggest developments out of Tuesday's debt ceiling meeting was President Biden's selection of two officials to negotiate directly with aides to Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Steve Ricchetti, a White House senior adviser.That decision appeared to mollify Mr. McCarthy, who noted after the meeting that we finally have a formula that has proven to work in the past.

A South Korean battery manufacturer said it would quadruple its planned investment in a new factory in Arizona to meet growing demand from automakers who are trying to ramp up production of electric cars and trucks.The company, LG Energy Solution, said it would invest $5.5 billion to build the manufacturing complex near Phoenix, where it plans to make batteries for electric vehicles in 2025 and for energy storage systems the following year.

General Motors and Stellantis paid a combined $363.8 million in penalties for failing to meet federal fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks they produced in previous years, according to federal government documents posted on Friday.G.M. paid $128.2 million for failing to meet the targets with the light trucks it sold in 2018 and 2019, according to documents published on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website.

U.S. auto sales likely rose in December and will rebound in the new year as a recovery in vehicle production will more than offset the effects of inflation and rising interest rates.Two years of semiconductor shortages and supply problems have kept vehicle production low and inventories lean.With factories picking up pace again, consumers will buy more vehicles this year even if automakers have to help them manage rising interest rates by cutting today's lofty prices.

The Best of Show winner, a deep-blue 1937 Delahaye 135M Roadster Cabriolet, puttered up the horseshoe drive and past the judges' stand to fanfare typical of a classic car expo.Such a meticulously restored, and rakish, car was to be expected at a vintage-vehicle show.The location, however, was anything but typical  the Concours d'Elegance was held for the first time at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a Beaux-Arts museum in the heart of America's Motor City.

An axiom in medicine is that good judgment depends on experience, and experience depends on bad judgment.Basically, one way doctors refine their care is through a learning curve resulting from inexperience and lack of judgment.A fitting example during the COVID-19 pandemic was the worldwide experience with ventilators, which are used to support lung function in patients with serious COVID-19 pneumonia.

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track.The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/13/23 featuring funding details for Olyns, Salsa, AudiencePlus, and twelve other deals representing $291M in new funding that you need to know about.

Another automaker is trying to cut its workforce to trim expenses and stay competitive as the industry makes the long and costly transition to electric vehicles.Stellantis on Wednesday said it's offering buyouts to groups of white-collar and unionized employees in the U.S., as well as hourly workers in Canada.

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said that its toaster-shaped driverless vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals was approved to drive on public roads with passengers in California.The company celebrated the milestone as the "first time in history a purpose-built robotaxi - without any manual controls - drove autonomously with passengers."

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.It was snowing, the heater in my rental car had broken, and I felt somewhat shady as I studied the faces of workers leaving a factory at midnight in Grand Rapids, Mich., last fall.

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OnStar is spending upwards of 90% of its ad budget on digital addressable media.The 25-year-old in-vehicle safety and security system company is hoping the strategy will allow it to more effectively target customers and better inform its 2023 marketing strategy."We know who many of our consumers are, and we want to make sure that we're hitting our reach and frequency targets to them as precisely as possible," said Laura Thornton, head of marketing for the digital business team at General Motors, OnStar's parent company.

The main federal auto safety agency disclosed on Friday that it has begun a preliminary investigation into cars that a division of General Motors has been testing as driverless taxis in San Francisco.The agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in a filing posted on its website that it had received reports that autonomous taxis operated by G.M.'s Cruise division had become immobilized on roadways, creating obstacles for other vehicles.

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Trouble At Twitter & TikTok Could Favor META
TikTok has been a formidable competitor to Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and now leads the chart for time spent on the platform by US adults.According to eMarketer, TikTok and YouTube lead the way with about 45 minutes each for average time daily time spent per user, compared with Facebook and Instagram at 60 minutes combined.

A year and a half in the making, Emily Winston's mega bagel facility with the custom bagel-slinging robot arm is opening at 7:30 a.m.today, March 24, in Berkeley, where Boichik Bagels fans will no doubt wait in long lines to catch a glimpse of BakerBot and nibble on Pumperthingles.The new Boichik Bagels will be open until 1 p.m. daily, or until sold out.

The Chronicle has published a searchable database of contracts that the City of San Francisco has with around 4,000 for-profit and non-profit companies.The data only goes back to 2017, but you can see, for instance, that Urban Alchemy has reaped over $60 million in contracts from the city in the last three years alone, to address homelessness and man safe-sleeping sites, among other things.

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A driverless GM Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month, and didn't come to a halt until firefighters smashed its front window, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.It's yet another hair-raising incident that highlights the dangers of letting autonomous vehicles roam free in a crowded urban environment.

Here's today's CTV news round-up... Want it by email?Sign up here.The Super Bowl has always been a promotional pageantry for brands - and this past weekend's game was no different.But this year's ads were unique in that they clearly reflected recent cultural shifts in the US.When the game wasn't buffering (because even live sports are streaming now), I saw multiple ads for streaming services in roughly the amount of time it took to eat a single box of mozzarella sticks.

"Those who decide to remain in the Ukrainian market after the war should carefully monitor the timing of the end of martial law so as not to lose rights to their trademarks."A company's trademark activity is a very telling indicator of whether it is interested in a particular country's or region's market.

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Without much pretense, the Federal Circuit has rejected GM's petition to the Federal Circuit seeking transfer of its case out of the Western District of Texas.In 2021, Intellectual Ventures (IV) sued GM for infringement of twelve different patents - all focusing on features of GM's OnStar service.

Tom Brady attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Paramount Pictures' 80 For Brady presented by Smirnoff ICE at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures On the football field, quarterback Tom Brady has just about done it all.For almost a quarter of a century, Brady piled up dozens and dozens of NFL regular season, playoff and Super Bowl passing records.

Tesla's next vehicle assembly plant will be in Mexico near Monterrey, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.We're super excited about it, Musk said during an investor day for the company.We'll continue to expand production at all of our existing factories.So this is not moving output to anywhere, from anywhere.

Good morning.Electric vehicles are no longer a niche choice for well-off environmentalists.We'll meet a driver who says he's a cheap early adopter and bought a used E.V. Image Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times I was no more than 75 words into reading Robin Shulman Agueros's story about people who are buying electric vehicles in the New York area when a line from an E.V. owner named John Sibley intrigued me: I'm the cheap early adopter.

General Motors has reached an agreement with a large computer chip maker to help ensure it has a steady supply of semiconductors as it ramps up production of electric vehicles and complex components that require increases in computing power.Under the agreement, the chip maker, GlobalFoundries, agreed to set aside a portion of its manufacturing capacity exclusively to make chips for G.M. The automaker plans to introduce more than two dozen electric vehicles around the world over the next two years.

A weird thing happened to the global auto industry during the pandemic: Its valuation roughly tripled to about $3 trillion.I wrote about that here.Roughly a year on, a lot of other weird stuff has happened, most notably the head of the world's most valuable automaker trying his hand at running a certain social media platform.

Elon Musk's Twitter is offering brands generous incentives to advertise on the social media platform, in a bid to boost business after the billionaire's approach to content moderation prompted many major marketers to curb spending.In one email sent to advertising agencies, a copy of which was seen by the Financial Times, Twitter said that it was launching its "largest advertiser incentive ever" in December, offering additional impressions if brands spent a certain amount.

The "internet's town square" is losing some of its billboards, as half of Twitter's top advertisers have reportedly pulled out of the social media platform after Elon Musk's acquisition.According to a report by Media Matters for America, a nonprofit media research organization and "misinformation monitor", 50 of the top 100 advertisers have fled the app in the wake of the billionaire's decision to "revamp" the site.

Twitter's new owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings.Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, sold 19.5 million shares of the electric car company from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, according to Tuesday's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Elon Musk entered Twitter's San Francisco headquarters in late October a conquering hero, carrying a sink to illustrate he now owned the company: let that sink in, Musk dad-joked on Twitter.Well, something is definitely sinking.Musk's Twitter is looking like a brand disaster.Within days, major auto companies pulled out of advertising on the social media platform, including General Motors, Ford and Audi.

Tesla's Autopilot "self driving" technology has slipped to the middle of the active driver assist (ADA) software pack, says the nonprofit Consumer Reports, as companies like Ford and General Motors have overtaken the Musketeers in the automotive code lane.Consumer Reports reached that conclusion after testing 12 different ADA systems, which it classified as technology that combines adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane centering assistance (LCA) to take the stress out of driving on highways or in traffic jams.

Android Automotive, Google's operating system for cars, has historically been pretty niche, and only a handful of high-profile cars like the Polestar 2 have used it.Now, though, Android Automotive is going mainstream, and we're starting to see some of the biggest car manufacturers roll out Google's operating system across entire lineups.

Ford Motor reported Thursday that its new-vehicle sales fell 2 percent in 2022 as shortages of computer chips and other supply disruptions slowed its production of trucks and sport utility vehicles.The automaker said it sold 1.85 million cars and light trucks in the United States last year, as well as 13,539 heavy trucks.

One of the more exciting developments to come to electric vehicles over the past few years has been the development of lithium-iron phosphate cells as an alternative to more traditional lithium-ion chemistries that use minerals like nickel, manganese, and cobalt.Now, a new battery management system, or BMS, could mean much more accurate range predictions for EVs with these batteries.

Transport Canada is issuing recalls for several vehicles from Chevrolet, Ford, Mercedes, Jeep and Volkswagen due to various safety issues.Jeep is recalling certain Wrangler 4x4 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) because of a vehicle control software issue that could cause the vehicle to shut down, leading to a loss of power to the wheels.

We can expect continued disruption to the global semiconductor industry and, therefore, continued supply chain shortages in the automotive industry throughout 2023, according to a new report in the Financial Times.The head of Onsemi, Hassane El-Khoury, told the paper that "there's nothing you can do now to change 2023," and that "we will be adding capacity every quarter, every month in 2023 to meet our customer demand."

When transit systems experience delays, the reason usually isn't very interesting: congested streets, medical emergencies, mechanical problems.But the cause of a recent holdup on San Francisco's MUNI system at least had the virtue of being novel.On Sept. 30 at around 11 p.m., an N Line streetcar ground to a halt at the intersection of Carl Street and Cole Street because an autonomous vehicle from Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, had halted on the streetcar tracks and wouldn't budge.

Amazon will resume advertising on Twitter and spend around $100 million a year, Platformer reported.Platformer said the move would require "some security tweaks" to its ads platform.Apple has "fully resumed" advertising on Twitter, Elon Musk said on Saturday.Amazon plans to start advertising on Twitter again to the tune of about $100 million a year, Platformer journalist Zoë Schiffer tweeted.

Apple is the new target of billionaire Elon Musk's ire after the Twitter owner and CEO outlined his frustrations with the company in a series of tweets about it stopping advertising on the platform and more.Musk was thrust into the limelight years back due to his other commercial exploits upending space exploration and the car industry, but he is generating even more column inches since buying Twitter for $44 billion.

The Elon Musk and Twitter saga seems to be neverending a the tech billionaire has now taken to the social media platform to claim that Apple has "threatened to withhold" Twitter from its App store and "won't tell us why."This would not be the first time Twitter has had issues with Apple.

Elon Musk said in a stream of tweets Monday that Apple has "mostly" stopped advertising on Twitter and threatened to "withhold" the social media platform from the app store."Do they hate free speech in America?"Musk tweeted.The business magnate also tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook in the thread saying, "what's going on here."

Balenciaga removed its Twitter account, becoming the first major fashion brand to leave the social media platform amid mounting concern over new owner Elon Musk's vision for the site.Major corporations including General Motors and Dyson have already suspended advertising campaigns, and celebrities including Gigi Hadid have left Twitter following Musk's acquisition of the company in late October.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH), Brotherhood Crusade, UCLA Health, and Reyes Coca-Cola for two Thanksgiving community events this past week.The first took place at the St.Joseph Center's Bread and Roses Cafe in Venice on Wednesday, November 16, as the Dodgers and LACDMH served Thanksgiving meals to individuals experiencing homelessness.

Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Magic Johnson kicked off the holiday season by partnering with Feed the Children and General Motors to give back in his home state of Michigan.Johnson went to Second Ebenezer Baptist Church in Detroit to give out supplies to more than 800 families to help make their Thanksgiving and holiday season better.

There is a long and interesting history of Chevrolet dating back to 1911. Louis Chevrolet was a Swiss-American race car driver and mechanic before he became an entrepreneur.He became acquainted with William Durant, the founder of General Motors (who had a riches-to-rags career), and Chevrolet became part of GM in 1918.

Issued on: 10/11/2022 - 04:20 Chinese EV manufacturer, BYD displays its electric car Seal at the Paris Car Show Monday, Oct. 17, 2022 in Paris.Michel Euler, AP Major automakers will need to sell about half the number of petrol and diesel vehicles than under current projections to be aligned with key climate goals, Greenpeace said Thursday.

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Elon Musk's Twitter is engulfed in chaos amid widespread layoffs and an exodus of major advertisers.Just one week in as Twitter's owner, Musk reported a "massive drop in revenue" due to companies pausing their advertising on the platform.Twitter is also struggling to roll out a new paid verification feature that has drawn ridicule from popular users.

NEW YORK (AP)  Twitter on Saturday launched a subscription service for $8 a month that includes the blue checkmark now given to verified accounts.In an update to Apple iOS devices, Twitter said users who sign up now can receive the blue checkmark next to their names just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.