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The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies: TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of U.S. shortcomings in protecting critical technology Heather Somerville wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS (Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/china-sel… techmeme.com/250527/p8#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

I took some time off after WSJ. Here’s my first story back on the Apple beat for The Information.

Heather Somerville A week after one of America’s largest self-driving truck companies promised the U.S. government it would stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners, TuSimple transferred a trove of data to a Beijing-owned firm. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville The story of TuSimple’s technology transfer and the political imbroglio that followed lay bare weaknesses in U.S. laws aimed at protecting American know-how. It is now informing a transformation of how the U.S. polices companies with Chinese ties. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville Some officials now believe the U.S. has erred in trusting Chinese entities to abide by such agreements, and should be more willing to block China-backed business deals outright. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables (Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/meta-army… techmeme.com/250529/p33#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Meta, Palmer Luckey’s onetime employer until a hostile split, is teaming with Anduril to bid on an Army contract to develop combat VR headsets. It's a novel embrace of defense work by Meta - and a victory lap for Palmer. wsj.com/tech/meta-army… via The Wall Street Journal

Heather Somerville Hou and Mo Chen founded TuSimple a decade ago with money from Charles Chao, who runs Chinese media empire Sina. They built much of the company in the U.S., with its easier regulatory environment, massive freight-trucking market and abundant capital. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville As TuSimple gained momentum in the U.S., Chen founded another startup in China called Hydron that said it had plans to build hydrogen-powered trucks for TuSimple. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville Hydron, also funded by tens of millions from Sina, according to people familiar with the matter, had few operations of its own and shared employees and an office with TuSimple in Beijing. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville Hydron struck a deal in 2021 to develop driverless trucks with Foton, a subsidiary of state-owned BAIC, in a deal struck by TuSimple, according to a document seen by the Journal. BAIC has a deal with a Chinese military university on driverless technology. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville One email, Slack message and videoconference at a time, TuSimple sent Chinese partners technical instructions for server dimensions, brake designs, sensors, steering, power supply and chips, according to documents seen by the Journal. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Heather Somerville In the Beijing office shared by TuSimple and Hydron, employees routinely downloaded the autonomy source code developed by engineers in the U.S. through joint access to a repository, former employees said. wsj.com/tech/china-sel…

Big day for the U.S. drone industry. Trump issued the first executive orders for the industry, which ease regulations and call for better defense against rogue drones wsj.com/politics/natio… via The Wall Street Journal

Proud to be a part of the group led by Tommy. Fuel is the critical link in the nuclear value chain, and until Standard Nuclear, there was no standalone TRISO fuel manufacturer in the US. Now there is. Read about it The Wall Street Journal from Heather Somerville wsj.com/business/energ…

The US Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth serving as lieutenant colonels (Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/army-rese… techmeme.com/250613/p10#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Proud to work for The Wall Street Journal. “He told the Journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.” wsj.com/politics/trump…

China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies—Beijing’s tightened controls are a sign of the leverage it has over the U.S. military supply chain Jon Emont Heather Somerville Alistair MacDonald wsj.com/world/asia/chi… wsj.com/world/asia/chi…

NEW: Onetime Silicon Valley upstart Palantir Technologies has emerged as a power player in Trump’s second term—and adopted a persona not unlike the president wsj.com/tech/palantir-… via The Wall Street Journal