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Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company

Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce …

TechCrunch Kirsten Korosec

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  • @munster_gene Gene Munster on x
    Cruise announces a 24% headcount reduction. I believe the race to autonomy will be winner take most given once the code is cracked it will be licesnsed to the auto industry. My sense is two autonomy models is all that the western world needs.
  • @chafkin Max Chafkin on x
    this sounds like a company moving from a commercial service back to a research project https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
  • @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x
    Big layoffs at Cruise that mostly target operational staff while keeping the engineering team largely intact. This seems like the right move. This year's expansion plans were wildly premature and they need to work on their tech for another year or two. https://techcrunch.com/...