North America

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- July 22, 2026 -- Royal Philips has launched Alturion, a new ultrasound system built for departments that run high patient volumes across varied exam types. The system pairs AI-powered workflow tools with imaging hardware designed to hold up across shift changes and multiple users. Alturion has received FDA 510(k) clearance and CE mark certification, making it available now in the U.S. and Europe. Philips positions the launch as an expansion of its ultrasound portfolio rather than a standalone product, built to share transducers and interface design with existing systems already in clinical use.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- July 07, 2026 -- swissQprint America opened its new headquarters in West Dundee, Illinois, on June 24, marking both a physical expansion and the company's 10th anniversary serving the North American market. The Open House drew customers, partners and industry professionals to tour the newly completed building, which offers roughly 130% more space than the company's previous site. Four customers signed purchase contracts during the event itself, translating the celebration into immediate business. The larger facility is meant to expand customer support, technical service and training capacity across the United States and Canada.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 25, 2026 -- General Motors senior vice president of global manufacturing Mike Trevorrow has outlined the scale of GM's current U.S. manufacturing commitment, citing $9 billion in American plant and facilities investment in 2026 alongside $7 billion in domestic research and development. Writing as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Trevorrow frames the spending not as a one-time commitment but as the infrastructure necessary to scale advanced technology through skilled workers, supply chains and local economic ecosystems. GM employs one in every 10 American autoworkers and contributed nearly $50 billion to U.S. GDP in 2025.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 25, 2026 -- Cadillac Racing has been named winner of the 2026 DHL Sustainable Endurance Award in the Hypercar category, a recognition presented by the FIA, ACO and DHL in connection with the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The award acknowledges a structured sustainability program spanning race logistics, hospitality, waste reduction, procurement and community engagement. Judges cited Cadillac Racing's submission as one of the most complete and measurable dossiers received in this year's competition, with every element tied directly to Le Mans race operations.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 25, 2026 -- General Motors has published details of EMWU, an offboard data pipeline designed to extract rare, safety-critical driving scenarios from millions of miles of autonomous vehicle fleet footage without proportional increases in compute cost. GM's autonomous vehicle fleet generates continuous sensor and camera streams across hundreds of test vehicles, and the volume of that data has made brute-force AI analysis economically and technically unworkable. EMWU separates the problem into three distinct tiers — domain projection, candidate retrieval, and deep visual reasoning — each calibrated to spend compute only where it is warranted.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING — June 17, 2026 — JMF Motorsports secured its first overall race victory of the season Sunday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, fielding the No. 27 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with co-drivers Jason Daskalos and Philip Ellis. The win, built on a pre-race decision to start the wet three-hour race on slick tires, made JMF and Mercedes-AMG the first team-and-manufacturer combination to score overall GT World Challenge America victories with two different cars in the series' new three-hour race format. Daskalos led the opening hour before Ellis, a late call-up replacing regular co-driver Lorcan Hanafin, closed out the race by passing teammate Mikael Grenier's sister entry with under 20 minutes remaining. The result keeps Mercedes-AMG's customer racing program at the front of both the Pro-Am and Pro class standings heading into the series' summer break.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- Dentsply Sirona has appointed John Fortson as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 20, 2026. Fortson joins from Kymera International, where he served as President and CFO, and brings more than 25 years of finance, operations, and strategy experience across global manufacturing and industrial businesses. The appointment is framed by the company as a key step in advancing its Return-to-Growth Action Plan.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- Roche has received FDA approval for the VENTANA PTEN (SP218) RxDx Assay, the first immunohistochemistry companion diagnostic cleared to assess PTEN protein loss in patients with prostate adenocarcinoma. The assay identifies patients whose tumours exhibit PTEN deficiency, making them potentially eligible for treatment with AstraZeneca's TRUQAP in combination with abiraterone acetate. Approval is based on results from the CAPItello-281 clinical study, where the assay served as the enrollment diagnostic to identify patients with PTEN-deficient tumours.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted Roche's supplemental Biologics License Application for Tecentriq and Tecentriq Hybreza in combination with chemotherapy as an adjuvant treatment for stage III dMMR/MSI-H colon cancer following surgery. The FDA has granted Priority Review and is expected to issue a decision by October 9, 2026. The filing is supported by Phase III ATOMIC study data showing a 50% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death compared to chemotherapy alone, results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 15, 2026 -- Dentsply Sirona has launched the WaveOne® Gold Orifice Shaper, its first reciprocating coronal flaring instrument, now available in the United States and Canada. The file is designed to integrate directly into the existing WaveOne® Gold treatment protocol, using the same reciprocating motion and motor settings as the rest of the system. That compatibility eliminates the need to change motor configurations during root canal preparation — a practical workflow improvement that reduces procedural complexity and the risk of operator error.