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SAN FRANCISCO – September 21, 2026 -- Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana will deliver a keynote at CES 2027, with the company's autonomous vehicles now completing over 500,000 rides every week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced.

Mawakana will address international expansion and fleet evolution on Jan. 6, 2027

The keynote is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. PST in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian, part of the CES 2027 event running Jan. 6-9 in Las Vegas. CTA President and CEO Kinsey Fabrizio said Waymo is integrating frontier AI and robotics to build the future of mobility.

Waymo frames its mission around a 1.19 million annual global traffic death toll

The company positions its autonomous "Driver" -- described as never tired, distracted or impaired and available 24/7 -- as a response to global road safety. Mawakana said the company is scaling a service designed to give riders a safer, more reliable transportation option.

Romeo, Mich. – September 21, 2026 -- L&L Products has released Toughened T-Link®, a fully amorphous thermoplastic adhesive that delivered a 66% increase in compressive strength after impact under ASTM D7137 testing versus panels made with epoxy prepreg alone.

New adhesive targets ductility gaps in layered carbon-fiber composites

The technology extends L&L Products' existing T-Link® platform, adding enhanced impact resistance while retaining the dry-to-the-touch handling, room-temperature storage, and fast consolidation properties that define thermoplastic adhesive processing. Internal testing also showed a considerable increase in short beam shear performance under ASTM D2344 for panels incorporating Toughened T-Link® film between epoxy prepreg layers.

San Francisco – September 21, 2026 -- Whipsaw, the design and innovation firm behind Tonal, Owala, and Brita, has launched a new 10-week cohort of The Workshop, its accelerator for early-stage hardware founders, with a Demo Day set for December 2026.

New cohort targets health, wellness, and home hardware startups

The program, which kicked off earlier this month, brings together early-stage founders building products across health, wellness, and home categories. Unlike traditional accelerators built on lectures and pitch competitions, The Workshop pairs founders directly with Whipsaw's multidisciplinary team of industrial designers, experience designers, engineers, strategists, and brand experts.

Washington – September 21, 2026 -- The Teamsters Union has endorsed a settlement agreement announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta that clears a path for the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Bonta brokers deal covering unions and employers in entertainment merger

Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien credited Attorney General Bonta for coordinating unions, employers, and other stakeholders to reach terms on the merger. The union identified worker protections embedded in the agreement as the central issue for its 1.3 million members across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.

West Chicago, Illinois – September 21, 2026 -- Titan International (NYSE: TWI) has agreed to sell its Italtractor ITM undercarriage business to Italy's USCO S.p.A. in a deal set to deliver up to $285 million in total cash value to the wheel and tire manufacturer.

Deal structure delivers up to $285 million across multiple payment streams

Titan will receive an initial purchase price of $207 million, plus up to $6 million in earnout proceeds tied to ITM's 2026 performance targets. Customary net-asset adjustments at closing are expected to add roughly $23 million in additional value. Titan has also received or expects to receive $49 million in dividends from ITM, including $38 million collected in recent years and $11 million anticipated before closing.

Lebanon, New Hampshire – September 21, 2026 -- Nuveen Green Capital (NGC) has closed $23.2 million in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing for The Brickyard development in Lebanon, New Hampshire, marking the first C-PACE transaction ever completed in the state.

Financing package totals $55 million across three capital partners

The C-PACE assessment closed alongside a $31.5 million senior construction loan from Silver Heights Capital, bringing the total financing package to $55 million. Kay Finance arranged the debt structure, with Eitan Rozenberg leading the process on behalf of the developer.

San Francisco – September 21, 2026 -- INSEAD launched its Future Council and detailed a five-year, €15 million gift funding a new Human and Machine Intelligence Institute (HUMII) during its two-day AI Forum Americas 2026, held in San Francisco this week.

Tampa, Fla. – September 21, 2026 -- Transflo has been named a national Top Workplaces 2026 winner for Remote Work, marking its second consecutive year earning the distinction after first receiving it in 2025.

Employee survey data drives the national recognition

The award is based on confidential employee feedback collected through a third-party survey administered by Energage LLC, which measures workplace culture across multiple professional attributes. Energage's benchmark draws on 20 years of culture research and results from 30 million employees surveyed across more than 80,000 organizations.

Minneapolis – September 21, 2026 -- Flexible Circuit Technologies Inc. (FCT) has developed a Liquid Leak Detection Flex Assembly aimed at protecting liquid-cooled AI servers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems from coolant failures.

FCT designs sensor to wrap directly around cooling hardware geometry

The flexible sensing assembly is engineered to fit around cold plates, manifolds, quick disconnects, coolant distribution units (CDUs), and server trays, placing detection points close to potential failure sites. The thin, lightweight profile is built for space-constrained rack and server environments where direct-to-chip liquid cooling is expanding.

New York – September 21, 2026 -- Prospect HQ, a career platform connecting student-athletes with employers, has launched an iOS app that gives its network of nearly 300 colleges and universities direct mobile access to job matching and profile tools.

Network reaches nearly 300 colleges since January 2026 launch

Prospect HQ went live in January 2026 and has since built an active community of current and former student-athletes drawn from close to 300 colleges and universities. The platform matches candidates to open roles based on self-described goals and cultural fit, aiming to reduce time spent on broad job searches.