The European Union announced plans to establish its first coordinated stockpile of critical minerals, including tungsten, rare earths and gallium, …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-25-eu-us-to-break-chinas-rare-earth-stranglehold.html

OpenAI announced on May 21, 2026, that one of its unreleased reasoning models has solved a geometry problem first posed …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-25-openai-model-solves-geometry-problem-researchers-say.html

Gavi, the international vaccine alliance, offered Thursday to accelerate its transition away from vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, in …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-25-gavi-offers-to-phase-out-vaccines-containing-thimerosal.html

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on May 19 announced the rollout of a new registration system for truckers, motor …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-25-dot-motus-registration-combat-fraud.html

A robot completed a residential cleaning service for a U.S. customer for the first time. The startup Gatsby charges a …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-25-humanoid-robots-american-homes-autonomous-cleaning.html

U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a deal for China to resume rare earth exports under temporary licenses, pending President Xi …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-23-us-china-rare-earth-agreement-shows-progress.html

Taiwan Signals Openness to Direct Talks With Trump Taiwan’s foreign ministry said President Lai Ching-te would be “happy” to speak …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-23-taiwan-willing-talk-with-trump-breaking-protocol.html

Sodium-ion batteries are drawing increased attention from utilities, manufacturers, and grid planners as an alternative to lithium-ion chemistry, according to …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-23-sodium-ion-batteries-gain-ground-energy-market.html

A new drone-mounted surveillance system can identify individuals at distances of up to 1,000 meters by combining facial recognition, gait …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-drone-system-identifies-individuals-long-range-biometric-data.html

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 304 on May 19, 2026, requiring parental consent for minors to receive HPV …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-iowa-law-requires-parental-consent-hpv-hepb-vaccines.html

Why China Is Winning the AI Race The conventional narrative that America leads in artificial intelligence is dangerously mistaken. I …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-why-china-is-winning-the-ai-race.html

Introduction: The Pivot That Made $7 Billion Appear Overnight On May 13, 2026, Ford launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-ford-turned-catl-albatross-into-hyperscaler-goldmine.html

According to the book “The Great Divergence: Surviving the AI Revolution Without Losing Your Humanity,” centralized AI concentrates power in …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-the-great-divergence-decentralized-ai-bastion-freedom.html

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report in April projecting that data center electricity consumption may reach 22% …

http://www.progress.news/2026-05-22-data-centers-commercial-building-electrcity-use-2050.html