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Tesla and Netflix are doing just fine. Autopilot concerns (see more below) and Hollywood strikes have yet to affect the automaker and streaming platform, whose latest earnings reports are buoyed by interest in its EV connector for the former and a password-sharing crackdown and price hikes for the latter.
AI news briefly sent Appleâs market cap up by $67 billion. Bloomberg reported that Apple was considering its own version of ChatGPT and Bard.
Norway is fining Meta $100,000 per day. Like Ireland before it, the Scandinavian country says the tech giant is advertising based on illegal data-gleaning practices.
Microsoft and Activision gave themselves more time to close their $69 billion deal. The two companies now have another three months to try to clear their final hurdle: the British government.
Foreign investment in US manufacturing is booming
Encouraged by recent incentives, the US manufacturing sector saw big increases in foreign investment last year.
These production incentives have raised concerns that European firms will try to relocate their investments to the US, possibly resulting in a US-EU trade dispute. But thereâs no reason to panic, just yet. As Mary Hui explains, European investment in US greenfield projectsâthose that involve both establishment and expansionâis actually on the decline.
Evictions are skyrocketing in the US
Cities that put a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic are now seeing eviction filings far outpace what an average pre-pandemic year would bring. Itâs a bit of a bullwhip effect, as property owners make up for lost time.
And thatâs not even the whole picture: the data doesnât reflect lockouts, extreme rent increases, or lease terminations that push tenants out, as Quartzâs Clarisa Diaz explains.
Was Teslaâs latest crash an autopilot fail?
Two people were killedâone from each vehicleâin a July 5 car collision in California. Now, investigators are looking into whether Teslaâs self-driving mode was to blame.
A look at the latest probes into Teslaâs Autopilot, by the digits:
36: Special Crash Investigations involving Teslaâs self-driving system since 2016
At least 22: Fatalities involved in those 36 cases
830,000: Vehicles involved in a separate Tesla probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
More than 360,000: Teslas affected by a NHTSA recall over Autopilot concerns in February
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