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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

GM’s moonshot bet on self-driving cars sours as Cruise axes a quarter of its workforce

GM CEO Mary Barra (Credit: Christopher Goodney—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Robotaxi company Cruise is axing a full quarter of its workforce, eliminating 900 jobs as the financial rot at the General Motors subsidiary threatens to spread.

GM bought the company for more than $1 billion in 2016, just three years after it was founded, but now the once promising business risks death by a thousand cuts following a fateful accident in October that resulted in the loss of its license in California. 

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