Apple has cut more than 200 jobs from the unit that includes its nascent autonomous vehicle effort, as CNBC reported and Axios has confirmed.
Why it matters: Apple has had fits and starts with the project, changing leadership and approaches multiple times. The cuts follow the re-hiring of Doug Field, a former Apple executive who had been at Tesla.
Apple's statement: Apple issued a statement confirming cuts at the effort, sometimes referred to as Project Titan, but the company also reiterated its interest in the broad category of autonomous systems. The size of the team has varied over time, but has been on the order of 1,000 workers.
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that its Bing search engine is currently unavailable in China, but declined to say whether technical issues or censorship are to blame.
Why it matters: Microsoft makes a modified version of Bing for China and it is normally available, albeit with certain terms censored.
The Financial Times reported that a government order was behind the outage, noting that Bing is the last major foreign-run search engine operating in the country.
