Eight days have passed since Musk's last message. That may be because Musk has his hands full with unmitigated chaos, judging by the latest news from the electric car company.
In a potentially significant blow to the company's controversial driver assistance technology efforts, the company is cutting 200 jobs from an office in San Mateo, California, according to a new report.
After Musk accused his own car factories of wasting billions of dollars due to supply chain issues last month, the electric carmaker moved to restructure.
During a June interview, Musk said that the Berlin and Austin factories are huge money furnace. It should be the sound of money on fire.
Musk said earlier this month that he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy and that the company was in the process of hiring, resulting in a total headcount reduction of less than 10%.
It is not clear if the Autopilot layoffs are part of the wave of firings.
CNBC reported that the San Mateo employees were tasked with training the system by labeling the videos taken by the cameras. They were responsible for identifying and describing the objects in the clips.
According to CNBC, that kind of job is often done by other companies.
The manager in the recordings said that they couldn't move operations to Palo Alto. Your positions were impacted by the restructure.
It's difficult to say what the upshot of this decision will be, or how important their work is to the future of the company.
It will not impress investors and could be a sign of what is to come for the company.
About 200 jobs are being cut and the office is closing.
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