This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi and The Ocean Cleanup’s push to deploy hundreds of plastic trash interceptors.
Continued progress against cancer will require collaboration among all key stakeholders. To this end, more stable and sustained federal investment is essential.
A new breed of models has rejuvenated predictive AI. But successful deployment demands a new business-value playbook.

Deliveroo has partnered with the American firm Coco Robotics to run four-wheeled pavement robots in five UK locations, starting in Canary Wharf this month, and says most orders will still go to human riders. Milton Keynes, one of the five, has had robo…

Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, AI, computing and networking, and announced the agreement today. “This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huawei’s innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomm’s…
Decisions by health insurers to trim the size of their geographic footprints is a way to boost bottom lines as reimbursement flattens and cost of care increases.
Wildgrain has been a wildly successful startup. This tasty pastry, bread, and pasta company with premium-priced products will break $100 million in revenue this year.
As prediction markets surge in popularity, a new platform called Verifact Markets is pushing the concept even further, letting users trade on “disputed facts.”

Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (€20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the deal on Monday morning. The announcement came a day after the Financial Times first …