University of Southern California is launching the Institute on Ethics & Trust in Computing, where experts will offer ethical guidance and resources to students and researchers on the development and applications of artificial intelligence and other technologies.
The Trump administration lifted a month-old stop-work order on Empire Wind, a $5 billion wind farm project off the coast of New York, in a compromise with the state that could also see cancelled plans for a gas pipeline revived.
The United States recently delivered a critical component to France’s ITER site: an 18-meter-tall (59-feet-tall) superconducting magnet, known as the central solenoid. The magnet comprises six individual magnetic modules, each weighing around 266,800 pounds, and will be responsible for initiating and maintaining the plasma within the reactor.
SCHOTT Pharma is investing more than 100 million euros in its existing site in Lukácsháza, Hungary, to expand its capacity for sterile ready-to-use cartridges.
Heidelberg Materials North America acquired certain assets of Concrete Crushers Inc., the largest concrete recycler in Calgary, Alberta. The transaction includes a recycled aggregates yard in Southeast Calgary and a contract crushing business with four mobile plants.
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. and TITAN Group entered into a memorandum of agreement to explore the commercial deployment of Carbon Upcycling’s technology for producing local, low-carbon building materials. This collaboration builds upon TITAN’s earlier investment in Carbon Upcycling.
AGI Glaspac, India’s glass packaging company, announced its partnership with U.K.-based Glass Futures, a global research and technology organization dedicated to developing sustainable, low-carbon solutions for the glass industry on World Environment Day.
Since its launch in May 2023, Calderys has participated in HEATERNAL, an EU-funded project working to develop a viable decarbonization solution using thermal energy storage. As the only refractory maker involved in the HEATERNAL project, Calderys plays a pivotal role in testing, selecting, and prefabricating the refractory solution for the thermal energy storage applications.
ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence introduced a new manufacturer certification program aimed at improving quality assurance and process control in the additive manufacturing supply chain. The certification was developed with input from more than 25 end users including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Ford, and General Motors.
The Brick Industry Association opened entries for the 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards. Entries are due by Aug. 29, 2025. New this year, the 2025 winning projects and teams will be honored live at the Inaugural Brick Excellence Gala on April 9, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla.
CelSian will host an introductory training course on bubble and seed defects in glass production on June 24–25, 2025. The training will take place over two half-days, from 2–6 p.m. CET. It is available both online and in-person at CelSian’s training centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The U.S. Department of Energy is canceling more than $3.7 billion in funding for projects that would cut carbon emissions and toxic air pollution from power plants and industrial sites, ranging from cement kilns to ketchup-processing plants. The DOE’s cancellations will also impact several projects seeking to reduce carbon emissions from glass production.
Disruptions in the supply chain due to the COVID-19 pandemic led Top Note Tonic on a journey to find locally sourced packaging, which the brand just debuted in May 2025.
Just as several big carbon capture and storage projects are getting off the ground, there is a retreat in both industry and government from ambitious goals for CO2 emissions cuts. This growing resistance to reaching net-zero emissions means that some carbon capture technology pioneers are suffering financially and paring back plans.
