Before jumping into today’s Data Sheet, I wanted to highlight news that Microsoft announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or roughly 5% of its workforce, joining the ever-growing list of tech giants right-sizing their headcount.
At this point, there’s not much new to say: Companies over-hired in the throes of the pandemic, they now want to cut costs in the face of an uncertain economy, and the whole thing stinks for everyone involved. Let’s just hope we’re nearing the end of the worst of it.
Now onto the rest of Data Sheet.
A little over six years ago, Tesla released and heavily promoted a video that suggested the company’s cars had reached long-awaited autonomy.
The nearly four-minute reel kicked off with a message, foretelling footage of a car “driving itself.” Then, viewers saw a bird’s eye view of a self-driving Tesla flawlessly navigating side streets, a highway, and a parking lot as the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It, Black” played in the background. Although a man sat in the front seat of the vehicle, he never took control of the steering wheel, let alone put his hands at 10-and-2.
The video heralded the arrival of a landmark achievement by Tesla, with CEO Elon Musk tweeting that “Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot.”
But according to testimony last year by a high-ranking Tesla executive, unearthed Tuesday by Reuters, the ad was misleading at best. In a July 2022 deposition, Tesla Autopilot software...
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