Tesla Engineer Sheen Austin, one of several members of the Tesla engineering team who joined Twitter in the fall after Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media firm, has left both companies. His departure raises questions about the sustainability of Musk’s use of Tesla employees to run Twitter. Austin, who joined Tesla in 2019, announced his departure from Tesla on Thursday in...
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