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Heather Somerville

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Technology and National Security Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Tech and national security reporter @WSJ. Formerly @reuters @mercnews @fresnobee. Mountain climber in my spare time. [email protected]. DM for Signal #

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  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Heather Somerville

    The Facebook and Instagram parent is partnering with Anduril Industries to develop combat VR headsets for the ArmyLuckey’s defense firm Anduril Industries and Meta said Thursday they will together build a line of new rugged helmets, glasses and other wearables that provide a virtual-reality or augmented-reality experience. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 1 week ago | lopinion.fr | Heather Somerville

    Une semaine après la promesse faite à Washington par l’une des plus grandes entreprises américaines de camions autonomes de cesser de partager des technologies sensibles avec des partenaires chinois, TuSimple a transféré une mine de données à une société détenue par Pékin.

  • 1 week ago | jp.wsj.com | Heather Somerville

    米トゥーシンプルが最先端の自動運転システムを中国政府と共有、米政府は重要技術の流出防止で後手に 米自動運転トラック大手トゥーシンプルは、今後は提携先の中国企業と秘匿性の高い技術を共有しないと米政府に確約した1週間後、中国国有企業に大量の重要データを移転した。 「彼らは細かい情報をたくさんほしがる」。トゥーシンプル・ホールディングスの米国従業員シャオリン・ハン氏は同僚にこう話した。中国商用トラックメーカー大手の福田汽車は、トゥーシンプルが米テキサス州で実施した多くの試験走行のデータを求めてきた。ハン氏は2022年2月にチャットで、「かなり時間を取られる」と語っていた。ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル(WSJ)はこのやりとりを確認した。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版今すぐ購読する

  • 1 week ago | cn.wsj.com | Heather Somerville

    图森未来曾向美国政府承诺,将停止与中国合作伙伴共享敏感技术。但一周后,这家美国最大的自动驾驶卡车公司之一就向一家中国政府所有的公司转移了大量数据。图森未来(TuSimple)曾向美国政府承诺,将停止与中国合作伙伴共享敏感技术。但一周后,这家美国最大的自动驾驶卡车公司之一就向一家中国政府所有的公司转移了大量数据。图森未来驻美国的员工Xiaoling Han对一位同事说:“他们想要很多细节。” 中国领先的商用卡车制造商福田汽车(Foton)曾寻求获得图森未来在得克萨斯州各地许多驾驶测试的数据。Han在《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)看到的一份2022年2月的聊天记录中写道:“这非常耗时。”Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8订阅

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Heather Somerville

    TuSimple shared with Beijing a best-in-class autonomous driving system—and became a prime example of Washington’s shortcomings in keeping critical technology in the U.S.“They want a lot of details,” Xiaoling Han, a U.S.-based TuSimple Holdings employee, said to a colleague. A leading Chinese commercial truck manufacturer, Foton, sought the data from TuSimple’s many test drives around Texas. “It is pretty time consuming,” Han wrote in a February 2022 chat exchange seen by The Wall Street Journal.

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Heather Somerville
Heather Somerville @heathersomervil
10 May 25

👀👀👀 What could go wrong? https://t.co/ekmO9dujtE via @NYTimes

Heather Somerville
Heather Somerville @heathersomervil
6 May 25

For the first time in in more than *a half century*, the U.S. completed successful test flights of a reusable hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. We are inching toward closing the gap with China in superfast weapons. https://t.co/SmSw7wZZrH via @WSJ

Heather Somerville
Heather Somerville @heathersomervil
14 Mar 25

RT @JChengWSJ: Lip-Bu Tan, Intel’s new chief executive, comes with tricky China business relationships, underscoring Silicon Valley’s inabi…