Tesla has laid off around 200 employees who were working on its Autopilot driver assistance system and closed its San Mateo, Calif. office, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The cuts affected more than half of the roughly 350 employees who worked in the office, many of whom labeled data collected by Tesla vehicles, according to Bloomberg’s report. That data is used to train Autopilot to become more...
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