Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement
American officials thought they'd secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn't work. X: @business . LinkedIn: David Atkinson and Shawn Donnan . Bluesky: @metacurit...
Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS
TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of Washington's shortcomings in keeping critical technology in the U.S.
Chinese self-driving trucking company TuSimple rebrands to CreateAI, in a pivot to generative AI for video games and animation, and debuts its first model, Ruyi
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation
TechCrunch : Threads: @lorakolodny . X: @sokane1 , @techcrunch , and @mattrosoff Threads: Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : Whatever happened to TuSimple? They're trying to pivot. https://techcrunch.com...
Sources: the US stopped autonomous trucking firm TuSimple's shipment of Nvidia A100 chips to Australia to probe whether they were ultimately bound for China
Wall Street Journal :
San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off ~150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Filing and sources: TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou left the company's board last week after a “whistleblower” shared he was asking staff to join his new venture
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
TuSimple confirms plans to lay off 25% of its workforce, or an estimated 350 workers, following a rough year for the self-driving trucking company
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half of its workforce next week, or ~700 employees, as the company scales back on building and testing autonomous trucks
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half its workforce, or ~700 employees, next week, as it scales back on building and testing self-driving truck systems
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :