SAN FRANCISCO — General Motors-owned self-driving car company Cruise’s operating loss totaled $3.48 billion in 2023, a staggering deficit that comes as the company faces two federal probes over an October crash in San Francisco and uncertainty over when it will resume its driverless testing program around the country.
Cruise, once regarded as a front-runner in the autonomous-car industry, has been bleeding money since General Motorsacquired it in 2016. While General Motors said Tuesday that it “remains committed” to Cruise, the automotive giant also said it will reduce Cruise’s expenses by about $1 billion to “slow the cash burn and align with a narrower focus in 2024.
July 1961 brought a sudden end to Ernest Hemingway’s storied life. He and his wife Mary were settling into a new home on the banks of the Big Wood River in the Sawtooth Mountains of Ketchum, Idaho—better known as the ski paradise of Sun Valley. They had fled their longtime estate in Cuba shortly after the Batista regime was toppled by Fidel Castro. All of Hemingway’s family was expected to visit Ketchum at the end of the month to celebrate his 62nd birthday on July 21.
The 67-year-old Howard Michael Mandel is famous for being a Canadian comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel voiced the character Gizmo in the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In 1987, Mandel starred alongside Amy Steel in the comedy film Walk Like a Man.
Howie Mandel’s children: Meet Alex Mandel, Jackie Mandel, Riley Mandel Mandel has been married for 43 years to Terry Mandel Soil in 1980.
Explore More It turns out you can find Easter eggs all year long – if you’re a sharp-eyed Jeep owner.
A 20-year-old college student fueled an internet frenzy after he made a big discovery while pumping gas one day.
“So I bought my first car and a fun fact about Jeeps is that they have a hidden animal, which is called an Easter egg,” Jackie Foster says in a video posted on TikTok.
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said.
Left unmentioned: the deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other meme mocking actresses for wearing “whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.