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Caballero Creek Park Is Open: LA’s First Self-Sustaining Park Cleans Its Own Water
Full disclosure: the name got my attention first. It’s not every day Los Angeles opens a park that shares your family name — and…
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EVs
Spotted in Burbank: Tesla’s Cybercab Is Out Testing While Robotaxi Goes Wide
That gold two-seater at the top of this post is Tesla’s Cybercab, and I photographed it yesterday afternoon rolling through the intersection of Thornton…
technology
Caltech Launches a Center for Disaster Resilience, With Lucy Jones at the Helm — and It Opens Today
Caltech is launching a Center for Disaster Resilience today, Wednesday, November 11, and it will be directed by the person Southern Californians have trusted…
EVs
A New EVs Section — and Where My Slate and Aptera Reservations Stand
I’m starting a new section here: EVs. The reason is personal — I hold reservations on two of the most unusual electric vehicles in…
EVs
Ford’s Next Electric Truck Is the Fathom: $29,945, Louisville-Built, Coming in 2027
Ford’s next electric pickup has a name, a price, and a factory. The truck is called the Fathom, it starts at $29,945 including destination,…
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Toyota Says “Okei” to America: The Scion KEI-01 Kei Truck Is Coming — Built in Indiana
Toyota is bringing a real Japanese kei truck to America — and building it in Indiana. At simultaneous events in Michigan and Texas on…
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Admits an Affair — and His Board Is Investigating Whether He Was a Spy Target
The most powerful man in the AI chip business admitted on Sunday to an extramarital affair — and his own board is now investigating…
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Live Talks LA This Week: Tony Shalhoub, Magic Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Greene and Michael Lewis
Live Talks Los Angeles is back with a stacked run of author evenings — memoirs, business, and a new Michael Lewis book on the…
finances
Anthropic’s IPO Is Set: $70–$78 a Share, a Trillion-Dollar Price Tag, and the AI Field Around It
The biggest IPO of the AI era has a price range. This morning, Anthropic — the company behind the Claude AI models — filed…
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Six Years After the Tease, Ring’s Flying Camera Is Finally Real — Drone Cam Ships January 27 for $249.99
Six years after Amazon first teased a flying security camera — and after at least two versions were built and never shipped — Ring…