Kyle Vogt

In December, Cruise announced it was cutting 24% of its workforce. GM said last week it was cutting spending by about USD 1 billion at Cruise in 2024.The California Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing Tuesday on a bid by General Motors' Cruise unit to resolve the agency's investigation into the robotaxi company's failure to disclose details of a pedestrian crash involving a self-driving car.In December, the commission (CPUC) ordered Cruise to appear, citing…

Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an independent review. Cruise didn’t explicitly say that a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet, and hoped screen sharing a video would “speak for itself.” The internet connection was so bad that regulators on the call never saw what happened.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving Car“Internet connectivity issues likely precluded or hampered from seeing the Full…

If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday. The driverless robotaxi service, from the same parent company as Google, is branching out from local routes and will start traveling at much higher speeds, breaking new ground for self-driving cars.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarWaymo conducted its first driverless ride in 2015 when a blind man in Austin…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Whatever you believe about the future of AI, there’s probably a cult out there for you. Ideological factions have been drawing lines for years and they each seem to bring pseudoreligious trappings with them. If you believe AI will inevitably kill everyone on the planet you might want to join the MIRI cult. If you believe that AI is dangerous but you and your close personal friends are the only people smart enough to control it, you might fit in with the Effective Altruist cult. And if…

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechWell, holy shit. As far as the tech industry goes, it’s hard to say whether there’s ever been a more shocking series of events than the ones that took place over the last several days. The palace intrigue and boardroom drama of Sam Altman’s ousting by the OpenAI board (and his victorious reinstatement earlier today) will doubtlessly go down in…

Cruise was once one of the bright spots in the tenure of GM CEO Mary Barra. Now both of its co-founders have quit and it is grappling to rebound from alarming mishaps. Cruise was once one of the bright spots in the tenure of GM CEO Mary Barra. Now both of its co-founders have quit and it is grappling to rebound from alarming mishaps. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink…

The co-founder of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, resigned from his duties as CEO, CTO, and President on Sunday night, following a month of turbulence for General Motors’ self-driving car subsidiary. Vogt exits the startup he launched in his garage 10 years ago, just weeks after Cruise recalled 950 robotaxis after one of them dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving Car“To my former colleagues at Cruise and GM - you’ve got this,” said Vogt in his resignation announcement on X. “Regardless of what originally…

"The last 10 years have been amazing, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped Cruise along the way," he wrote in the email.The CEO of General Motors' robot-taxi unit Cruise, Kyle Vogt, has resigned from the company a day after apologizing to staff as the company undergoes a safety review of its U.S. fleet.Vogt, 38, offered little in the way of explanation, stating simply "I have resigned from my position," according to his email to staff viewed by on Sunday."The last 10…

Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt has resigned. In his announcement on X, the 38-year-old exec expressed that "the last 10 years have been amazing," while reminding us that "the startup I launched in my garage has given over 250,000 driverless rides across several cities." As to what Vogt is doing next, he plans on taking a break first to "explore some new ideas." Vogt had previously co-founded video platforms Justin.tv, Twitch and Socialcam.According to TechCrunch, General Motors has since promoted Mo Elshenawy,…

Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup through its acquisition by General Motors, has resigned, according to an email sent to employees Sunday evening. The executive shakeup comes a month after the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s permits to operate self-driving vehicles on public roads after an October 2 incident that saw a pedestrian – who had been initially hit by a human-driven car and landed in the path of a Cruise robotaxi – run over and dragged…