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In April 2026 Pony.ai, with Verne and Uber, launched a commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, Croatia, which the company describes as Europe's first. It was part of a China-plus-overseas strategy that also included Singapore and Luxembourg testing.
Figure reported that its Figure 02 robots spent 11 months on an active assembly line at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, loading more than 90,000 parts and contributing to production of more than 30,000 X3 vehicles.
In August 2025 Baidu said Apollo Go would partner with Lyft to deploy fully autonomous vehicles in key European markets, starting with Germany and the UK and scaling to thousands of cars.
In July 2025 OpenAI's $3 billion deal to acquire the AI coding startup Windsurf collapsed; the same day Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and top researchers, with Google paying $2.4 billion to license the startup's technology.
In July 2025 Baidu's Apollo Go signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Uber to deploy thousands of fully autonomous vehicles on Uber's platform across multiple international markets, starting with Asia and the Middle East.
On 4 February 2025, Figure ended its collaboration agreement with OpenAI. Brett Adcock cited integration problems and said Figure had built end-to-end robot AI in-house, while pointing to BMW and a new large customer.
In October 2024 Google and Kairos Power agreed on a path to deploy 500 MW of advanced nuclear power in the United States by 2035, with a first plant by 2030 — the first US corporate deal covering multiple deployments of one advanced reactor design.
In September 2024 Constellation signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft, its largest ever, paving the way to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 — renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center — with operation targeted for 2028.
In June 2024 GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced a multi-year agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots in GXO's logistics operations, which Agility called the industry's first commercial and first Robots-as-a-Service humanoid deployment.
On 15 March 2024 Apptronik announced a pilot with Mercedes-Benz to test Apollo humanoid robots in its manufacturing facilities — Apptronik's first publicly announced commercial deployment of Apollo.
In March 2024 Talen Energy sold its Cumulus data center campus beside the Susquehanna nuclear plant to Amazon Web Services for $650 million, with 960 MW of plant output going to AWS; a 2025 deal expanded it to 1,920 MW through 2042.
On 29 February 2024, humanoid robot maker Figure announced a US$675 million Series B at a US$2.6 billion valuation and a collaboration with OpenAI to develop AI models for its robots.
On 18 January 2024, Figure announced a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to deploy general-purpose robots in car production, starting with a few tasks at BMW's Spartanburg plant and expanding only if milestones were met.
