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The contractor says the robot halved a setting crew, at somewhat lower output, and cut panel breakage to "virtually zero." It also calls the machine a "working prototype," and building robots isn't its business.
The AI assistant still handles about two-thirds of inquiries. Klarna is adding gig-style human agents in Sweden and says customers will always be able to reach a person.
The Texas launch is real: a driverless truck running Dallas to Houston for paying customers. A truck maker's request means a non-driving observer now sits up front.
Waymo's recall filing lists 16 collisions with chains, gates and similar barriers, none with injuries. It says a software update reached the whole fleet by Dec. 26, 2024, months before the recall was filed.
The US460 design can now be referenced in applications to build plants. The NRC says its review came in early and under budget. Nobody has applied to build one yet in these sources.
Germany's stellarator held a record triple product for 43 seconds, refuelled by a U.S.-built pellet injector. Unpublished results from the UK's JET tie it.
The 250-MW Ontario project, co-owned with First Nations partners, cost about C$700 million against an C$800 million estimate. It holds a 20-year contract with the grid operator.
Emerald AI's software throttled a 256-GPU cluster during two utility peaks in May 2025 with no hardware changes, according to a preprint that hasn't been peer-reviewed.
PERI 3D Construction built the 1,400 sq ft store with printer maker COBOD. A state filing puts the estimated cost at $1,198,000; there's no comparison to a conventional store.
The team's model suggests that construction waste and incinerator ash could, in theory, replace half of global cement. It's a modeled estimate; lab validation is still to come.
Four cement projects worth about $1.28 billion were among 24 awards totaling over $3.7 billion that DOE terminated. E&E News reported that only $99 million had been paid out.
The licensed "Heat Index" section ran in print on May 18. The paper's own review later found errors in every story with named sources.
It's Boomitra's first croplands project and first in Africa to be registered by Verra. Registration isn't issuance: no credits have been issued yet, and the removal figures are estimates.
The binding deal runs six to nine years and lets Microsoft buy the cement's environmental attributes separately from the material, the companies said. No price was disclosed.