{"id":942032,"date":"2025-06-28T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942032"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:10:52","slug":"tesla-hires-former-cruise-executive-as-ai-director-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/28\/tesla-hires-former-cruise-executive-as-ai-director-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla hires former Cruise executive as AI director: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has hired former Cruise executive, Henry Kuang, as the automaker&#8217;s AI director, according to a report by news website Electrek on Thursday, as the company looks to expand robotaxi operations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Kuang was the head of autonomy at General Motors&#8217; self-driving unit, Cruise, till last year, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment comes at a time when Tesla has seen a series of high-profile departures in the past year, including the resignation of two senior executives on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has hired former Cruise executive, Henry Kuang, as the automaker&#8217;s AI director, according to a report by news website Electrek on Thursday, as the company looks to expand robotaxi operations in the United States. Kuang was the head of autonomy at General Motors&#8217; self-driving unit, Cruise, till last year, according to his LinkedIn profile. His appointment comes at a time when Tesla has seen a series of high-profile departures in the past year, including the resignation of two senior executives on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}