I think this is a pump and dump scam.
The companies may be legit but the scam isn't.

What are people thinking?

There are lots of laws against discrimination of disabled persons and lots of clear definitions of disability.
This is an easy slam dunk case of discrimination against disabled persons.

Lots of good evidence that WFH is effective for employers and employees.
Requiring disabled employees to overcome the many hurdles to physically transport themselves to an office is clear discrimination when they could WFH.

The stores and cops aren't particularly concerned if they identify the "right" person. As long as they have someone identified as a criminal they are happy.

Trump's military parade in DC had multiple sponsors who received public credit during the show.
Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase and Amazon have recently donated to America250, the nonprofit raising funds for the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary, the organization said. (Also some energy drink)
We have the finest government (and military) that the oligarchs can buy.

Too bad that Apple doesn't offer the same disable/blaring alarm service to people who have their phone stolen.

Part of the problem is that utilities can make lots of profit by building a new transmission line. They are guaranteed a 10%+ rate of return on everything they invest.
There is an alternative.
Currently, the capacity of a line is calculated as a fixed number using a worst case scenario of high temperature, etc. However, most of the time this artificially limits the line capacity. There exist line monitoring systems which can take into account real world conditions and allow existing lines to carry more power but utilities would rather build new lines which increase their profits.

High voltage transmission lines don't use copper.
They are aluminum.

It's stupid to think that you can control information.
Chip export controls are easily circumvented and this story shows that you can't control their use.
The Chinese will soon have better chips and software than the US and they will have "all the cards".
Better for the US to just step up its game to out-compete... if it can.

I visit news.google.com regularly. It is customizable to show topics that I am interested in.
It includes links to all of the sources and more significantly, it does not have any "AI summaries"
Hopefully it will remain that way and avoid the enshittification of AI.

Is it possible to have AI do the unit tests?

That should cover it.

Your logic is odd and difficult to parse so I won't even try.

It's not the cities. They don't take up much land compared to the rural farm areas that have been cleared to support industrial animal production.

It's impressive to see the amount of damage humans have done to out natural environment.
Fortunately, others have demonstrated that "rewilding" is possible without a great effort. All you need to do is stop clearing and burning and let nature do the rewilding. When you consider that 70% of cleared land is used to support industrial meat production, a logical first step would be to let this land recover. There would be less meat but that is a good thing for human health as well as the environment.