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Ford Walks Back DEI Work As Some On the Internet Complain

The Truth About Cars

The automaker recently told workers that it would modify its DEI initiative to allow all employees, and said that it would end its work with the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. The external and legal environment related to political and social issues continues to evolve.”

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

Cars That Think

Instead, they’re made up of public data that was created by all of us—anyone who’s ever written a blog post, posted a video, commented on a Reddit thread, or done basically anything else online. Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Longpre: Exactly.

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General Motors to Move from Long-Running Detroit HQ Into a New Location Across Town

The Truth About Cars

He did say that GM’s executives and corporate offices, including finance, legal, and other departments would make the move. That’s a significant reduction from RenCen’s 2.3 million square feet. GM President Mark Reuss said the company hadn’t determined how many employees would move to the new location.

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

The Truth About Cars

Investors, in particular European ones, are becoming increasingly sensitive to social aspects of corporates [sic],” Charles Pinel, CEO of Proxinvest, told Bloomberg in a recent interview. Legal challenges have also been raised on behalf of the manufacturer.

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A123 Systems receives interim court approval of $50M DIP financing from Wanxiang; responds to objections from Wanxiang, Fisker and others on asset sales process

Green Car Congress

announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Court") has granted A123 interim approval to use $50 million of Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing, which is being provided by Wanxiang Group Corporation (Wanxiang). Li-ion maker A123 Systems, Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post , earlier post.)

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Cruise Outsources Review of Regulatory Response

The Truth About Cars

But the hiring of a legal team and technology experts makes it sound like it’s gearing up to defend itself. However, one wonders about how impartial outside companies tasked with doing an assessment actually are when they’re still on the corporate payroll. That’s understandable.

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Driving Dystopia: More Companies Found Covertly Sharing Driving Data, Raising Insurance Rates

The Truth About Cars

With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The entire business model is predicated upon this, minus the fact that it became a legal requirement to drive in most states by 1970.

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