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TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assets
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Image Credits: Bryce DurbinNearly a year ago, a little bird gave us a tip that sparked a months-long hunt for more information about a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto. Senior reporter Sean O’Kane has all of the details in this story, including that Jeff Bezos is backing the company, along with other high-profile backers like Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the LA Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, and Thomas Tull, who is a lead investor of Re:Build Manufacturing. Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong.
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