May 28, 2026 | Autonomous Ships, Featured, Weather
Long-running partnership with Saildrone aims to improve hurricane forecasting and rapid intensification models. The company announced plans to deploy 10 Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) during the 2026 hurricane season in partnership with National...
May 28, 2026 | Batteries, Detroit, Featured, Space
General Motors Co. will help develop batteries for new manned rovers to be driven by NASA astronauts on the moon. NASA awarded private space startup Lunar Outpost $220 million on Tuesday to build the Pegasus vehicle with help from GM, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co....
May 28, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation
Every company racing to automate knowledge work is discovering the same uncomfortable paradox: the more tasks they hand to AI agents, the more human judgment they need to make those agents useful. Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, a media and AI research company that has...
May 28, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured
Stellantis and Wayve announced a partnership that will enable scalable driver-assistance features and, eventually, autonomous self-driving vehicles. According to a recent joint press release, Stellantis will integrate Wayve’s artificial intelligence (AI) into its...
May 28, 2026 | Robotaxis, Safety
Waymo, the self-driving robotaxi company, is temporarily pausing its vehicles from operating on U.S. freeways, including in San Francisco and Los Angeles, to address safety concerns after reports emerged that the vehicles were operating unsafely. Within the last two...
May 25, 2026 | Smart Mobility Today
Happy Memorial Day Everyone I am sure each of us has a friend or relative who has served in this country’s armed forces, someone we can be grateful to for their choice to serve and protect. Many brave and frightened individuals gave their lives doing just that,...
May 21, 2026 | Energy, Transportation, US Economy
Americans appear to be riding buses and trains more often as gas prices climb above $4.50 per gallon nationwide, with some of the biggest shifts showing up in places where mass transit is already a realistic alternative to driving. The increase follows...
May 21, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
The bipartisan, five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill released May 17 — the BUILD America 250 Act — included details on the typical investment programs for U.S. roads, bridges, rail transportation and motor carrier safety programs. For the first time,...
May 21, 2026 | Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
Adam Fisher, the staff director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), reported that the agency has approved 17 pharmaceuticals that utilize continuous manufacturing...
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