Nearly a thousand UAW Local 2093 members at a Detroit plant supplying GM and Ford vote Sunday on a deal to end their strike, which is a direct read on bargaining strength in the local auto supply chain

The Department of Energy funded new partnerships to close domestic gaps in the critical minerals that feed both chips and batteries, which matters for the chip and electric-vehicle supply chains that run through Michigan

Salesforce shipped a Claude-powered Slackbot that searches company data and takes actions on its own, and early internal use showing two to twenty hours saved a week is a concrete look at how office work is being reshaped

Anthropic released a desktop agent that lets people with no coding background organize files and turn messy receipts into finished spreadsheets, which extends real automation to the everyday office worker rather than just developers

Block's free, locally run Goose agent now does much of what paid coding assistants charge up to two hundred dollars a month for, which signals that the cost of capable developer automation is falling fast