TuSimple may sell autonomous truck business in China to boost share price

TuSimple Holdings shares, battered since announcing a sudden leadership change earlier in March, rebounded Wednesday after Reuters reported the autonomous truck developer may offload its autonomous trucking business in China.

TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP), which leads the commercialization of autonomous trucking in the U.S., hasn’t talked much about its China business, which focused on deepwater ports near Shanghai. TuSimple is in talks to sell the unit for up to $1 billion, Reuters said, citing three...

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US takes limited oversight of TuSimple as foreign investment probe ends

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has wrapped up its national security probe into autonomous truck software developer TuSimple Holdings Inc., which agreed to limited U.S. oversight and pledged to keep U.S.-developed core technology out of China.

“I think in short this is a clean bill of health from the U.S. government,” TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves on Tuesday evening.

CFIUS, an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions involving...

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