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9 stories dated January 2026.
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Seven months after launch, Tesla began offering paid rides with no employee in the car. Videos show another Tesla trailing behind, and Tesla says only "a few" cars are unsupervised.
Moove, the outside company hired in 2024, runs the depots. Rides start with a waitlist of about 10,000 people, inside a 60-square-mile area that skips South Beach and the airport.
Kroger's filings put the charge at $2.585 billion and say the network wasn't meeting "operational or financial expectations." The settlement also covers a planned site in Charlotte that won't be built.
Green Dot Assist went from a 35-store pilot to full North American deployment in about five months. U.S. transactions grew for the first time in two years, but Starbucks credits a bundle of changes, and profits fell.
A supplier printed copper-nickel Virginia-class components in under five weeks against a typical 17-month wait, the shipbuilder installed its first metal-printed submarine part, and a destroyer valve's 29-week lead time fell 70%.
It's the companies' third deal in under two years, after a 40,000-credit purchase in 2024 and 60,000 credits in 2025. Neither company disclosed a price.
Audi's Edge Cloud 4 Production now runs a high-volume body shop at Neckarsulm, where about 100 robots take their commands from the cloud. Audi published no cost savings.
In early U.S. pilots with Siemens and NVIDIA, PepsiCo reports a 20% throughput increase and 10–15% lower capital spending from finding hidden capacity in plants it already owns. The sites and baselines aren't named.
The automated precision-parts maker says F3 is already producing aerospace and defense components. It hasn't published cycle-time, cost or output figures for the plant.