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” (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The Verge:
At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla’ AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid robot that he said utilizes the company’s AI software …

Reuters:
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  —  General Motors’ (GM.N) autonomous driving unit Cruise has developed its own chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025 …

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Sources: Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, to help at Twitter  —  – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week.

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.

FinSMEs:
Swift Navigation, which makes high-accuracy GNSS hardware for advanced driver-assistance systems, raised a $100M Series D, bringing its total funding to $200M+  —  Swift Navigation, a San Francisco, CA-based tech company redefining GNSS, ADAS and autonomy, industrial machine control …

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Elon Musk says Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta is now available on request to anyone in North America who has paid for the $15,000 feature  —  Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Beta, which has been gradually rolling out over the past couple of years, is now available to anyone who’s paid for the feature …