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Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point

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The announcement involved a press event at the National Press Club, along with official-looking press release and even a whole website. For example, in 2004 they posed as representatives of Dow Chemical and promised that the company would clean up after the Bhopal Disaster, leading to a temporary $2 billion drop in the company’s market cap.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Gerstner Jr.

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