Uber Eats signs a 10-year deal with Nuro and plans to launch autonomous delivery vehicles in Mountain View, California, and Houston, Texas in fall 2022 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Internal email: autonomous delivery startup Nuro is laying off 300 people, or 20% of its workforce, to preserve cash, and says it has $1B on its balance sheet  —  Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people …

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions  —  Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Stockholm-based autonomous and electric truck company Einride raised a $200M Series C from Northzone and others and $300M in debt from Barclays  —  Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally.

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
BMW plans to use AWS tools to manage data from its Neue Klasse platform for connected vehicles; the company says it has roughly 20M connected vehicles in use  —  BMW will be the first automaker to use Amazon Web Services’ cloud software to manage data from its connected vehicles, the companies announced Thursday.

Ed Garsten / Forbes:
SafeAI, which retrofits industrial vehicles like dump trucks and bulldozers with autonomous systems, raised a $38M Series B from Builders VC and others  —  A company that specializes in converting heavy construction and mining equipment from driver-operated to self-driving has landed millions …

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber says there is no evidence that sensitive user info, like trip histories, was accessed during the breach, and all of its products are currently operational  —  Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users’ private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.