Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai has put on hold plans to go public in New York through a merger with a blank-cheque firm at a $12 billion valuation, after it failed to gain assurances from Beijing that it would not become a target of a crackdown against Chinese technology companies, people familiar with the matter said.
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