Analysis: Amazon’s regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022 (Christopher Weaver/Wall Street Journal)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Amazon unveils AWS SimSpace Weaver, a spatial computing service for developers to run real-time city-sized simulations across multiple instances  —  At this morning’s Re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud.

Steffie Banatvala / Financial Times:
A look at the Safetipin app, which lets users map safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries and is helping New Delhi carry out improvement work  —  First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
Filings: TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen consolidates power, acquiring 59% of the voting stock, as the US investigates the self-driving trucking company  —  Federal authorities continue to investigate entity’s relationship with a Chinese startup tied to co-founder Mo Chen

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup  —  Government authorities are investigating whether the U.S. self-driving trucking company defrauded investors by financing and transferring technology to China-backed Hydron

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
The Labor Department releases a nonbinding proposal to classify US gig workers as employees and not independent contractors  —  A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
TuSimple confirms plans to lay off 25% of its workforce, or an estimated 350 workers, following a rough year for the self-driving trucking company  —  Update: CEO Cheng Lu said laid off workers will remain on the payroll for two months and will receive severance.  —  Well, we knew it was coming.