The rehiring comes roughly 18 months after GM effectively shut down Cruise in December 2024, when the company stopped funding the unit’s robotaxi ambitions.

Technology entrepreneur Kyle Vogt started Cruise in 2013, and the company was acquired by GM in 2016 for $1 billion. Subsequently, Cruise received a $30 billion valuation in 2021 and collected over $7 ...

After 10 years and billions of dollars, GM decided last December that it was time to pull the plug on its self-driving arm, Cruise. It brought many of the software engineers and other autonomous ...

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GM began testing in Michigan and Texas in February and in San Francisco in mid-April, the company said July 7. GM calls its system Level 3, the lowest that is still considered autonomous. GM said the ...

General Motors Co. is seeking to lure back some former employees of its defunct Cruise autonomous-vehicle business as part of a renewed push to develop a new driverless car, according to people ...

General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. The ...

In this Jan. 16 photo, Cruise AV, General Motor’s autonomous electric Bolt EV, is displayed in Detroit. A group of institutional investors is sinking $1.15 billion into GM Cruise LLC, the autonomous ...

General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. The ...