This careers roundup listed multiple women executive moves across companies and leadership roles, including a new president and CEO at Susan G. Komen, a new CEO at Driscoll’s, and a new AI inference company CMO at Baseten.
Brie Reiter Smith was named CEO of Driscoll’s.
The changes shift leadership across retail, food, health, and tech firms, with at least one move tied to an AI inference company and another tied to building AI for autonomous vehicles.
Tekever raised about €500 million in its Series D funding round at an estimated valuation of about €5.5 billion. The round is led by Baillie Gifford and UC Investments and is only the first close. Tekever says the new capital will fund international expansion, production scaling, more R&D, and additional defense-focused acquisitions.
Tesla’s Optimus robot production is falling behind its target of making 20,000 robots per week. Last month, Tesla reportedly produced several hundred robots per week after repurposing its Model S and Model X lines for Optimus. The change is that new, high-precision assembly for much smaller parts is causing manufacturing snags that slow output.
Waymo expanded its robotaxi service from 3 to 15 U.S. cities while rides increased, but its fleet deployment is heavily concentrated in California and Texas. It had 1,102 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas as of September 24, and its Texas fleet grew by 49% in the previous three weeks. The company is shifting more vehicles there, with the share of newly added Zeekr-based minivans (“Ojai”) rising toward about a third of the Texas fleet despite higher import tariffs.
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