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TechCrunch Minute: Tech billionaires want to build a utopian city in California


The California Forever project is on hold until 2026. The family of Marc Andreessen is planning to build another large community instead.

Lockheed Martin is acquiring satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital, taking the smaller company private and potentially rescuing it from running out of cash while facing serious… OpenAI’s newest GPT-4o model can behave pretty strangely, for example by copying your voice, or by shouting or moaning erotically during a conversation. A crew of tech billionaires have been trying to get the California Forever project off the ground, which would create a new, supposedly utopian city on land north of the Bay Area.

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