GM’s Cruise says it has developed four in-house chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025, including an ARM-based computing chip called Horta (Reuters)

CNBC:
General Motors says it is suspending advertising on Twitter as it evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.

Reuters:
SEC filing: Intel’s self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021  —  Mobileye, Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States, revealing a 21% jump in revenue for the first half of the year.

David Shepardson / Reuters:
IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were “comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving”  —  Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) …

Reuters:
Arm sues Qualcomm and its subsidiary Nuvia for using licenses without approval, asking Qualcomm to destroy designs developed under Nuvia’s agreements with Arm  —  Chip technology firm Arm Ltd, which is owned by Softbank Group Corp (9984.T), said on Wednesday it has sued Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company’s business, customers, IPO plans, corporate structure, working with TSMC and Apple, building chips for cars, and more  —  Arm’s chips are in your iPhone — but what exactly does Arm do? … One of the more interesting quirks of the modern tech world …

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Helm.ai, which uses an unsupervised learning approach to its autonomous driving software, raised a $31M Series C led by Freeman Group at a $431M valuation  —  A few bright spots remain in the autonomous vehicle industry even amid macroeconomic headwinds that have nearly shut off the spigot …