According to the Wall Street Journal, the self-driving truck startup Tusimple (now Kietia) sent a contingent of sensitive data to an American-made autonomous vehicle system blueprint-for a Beijing-owned firm, it will close such transfer under a National Security Agreement.
Transfers for Chinese truck manufacturer photon occur around February 2022, Tusimple ordered the company to separate its business and technology from China-based employees and partners with firewalls and governance controls exactly a week after signing the agreement. According to hundreds of correspondence, which continued to share data to the deadline of Tusimple to comply with the agreement as per hundreds of correspondence.
A latter investigation with the committee on foreign investment in the US (CFIUS) found that data sharing did not technically violated the agreement, although Tusimple was fined for other violations and according to the journal, the settlement of $ 6 million was paid without accepting the defect.
For techcrunch comments, now Createai, was unable to reach Tusimple.
Nevertheless, the saga of Tusimple’s data transfer is transferred to China, which highlights the boundaries of US security measures, meaning to balance foreign investment with national security. And it is not just the data that the Tussim is trying to cross the border.
This latest revelation Techcrunch said that some Tusimple shareholders were trying to prevent the company from transferring their American funds – at that time about $ 450 million – the company’s Chinese subsidiary to fund AI animation and content generation to fund a pivot. The play is still coming out as one of the co-founders of Tusimple, be ShiaoD, fights in court to control its voting shares to push for the company’s liquidation. In December 2024, Tusimple officially re -prepared Kietia.
The company has been entangled in controversy since publicly went through IPO in 2021. Tusimple began in 2015 as a China-supported startup founded by HOU and Lu Chen, an entrepreneur, an autonomous vehicle industry with a relationship with Sina Corp, a favorite for a mixture to raise about $ 2 billion for a mixture completely jointly, which is for the same hitters, which was the US-based Heavy Hitters, and the hero.
Tusimple’s plans took a turn to worse between the company’s internal conflicts and federal investigation into the company’s relations with China, leading to its decision to get out of American operations and voluntarily lead the stock market to voluntarily descend from the stock market in January 2024. Techcrunch.
A Chinese hydrogen trucking set up by the journal reporting chain highlights the dispute already reported, which shared an office with Tusimple China. Overlap 2022 CFIUS was the theme between Hydron and Tusimple, during which Tusimple revealed that its employees spent the hours working for hydrons in 2021 and shared confidential information with the company.
According to the documents viewed by the journal, Tusimple interacted in 2021 to negotiate a deal between hydrone and photons to develop autonomous trucks. Photon, a subsidiary of the state -owned BAIC group, has an agreement with a Chinese military university to work on AV Tech.
Through a combination of email, slack messages, and video calls, Tusimple sent technical instructions for server dimensions, brake design, sensors, steering, power supply and chips according to the magazine. Employees also regularly downloaded the Autonomous Source Code developed by their American counterparts.
As a geopolitical tension and competition with China’s rise, Tusimple’s relationship is serving as a precautionary story for Washington, which has helped run a change in American policy, inspired strict rules on technical deals related to Chinese and made a comprehensive bang to block high-risk transactions.