According to Sawyer Merritt, Pilot Travel Centers, the largest travel center operator in the US, has partnered with Tesla to deploy Semi Chargers across 35 locations nationwide, with the first sites expected to open in Summer 2026. As reported by Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, this collaboration aims to enhance Tesla’s electric truck charging infrastructure, supporting the growing adoption of Tesla Semi vehicles for commercial logistics. The move is poised to accelerate the electrification of freight transport and create new business opportunities for Pilot and Tesla in the EV charging sector.

According to DeepLearning.AI, researchers have introduced Sample-Efficient Modality Integration (SEMI), a framework that enables any pretrained encoder—covering images, audio, video, sensors, and graphs—to be integrated into a large language model (LLM) using a single projector and LoRA adapters trained on just a handful of paired examples. SEMI, as detailed in The Batch, demonstrates strong few-shot adaptation across new domains by leveraging data-rich pretraining and then outperforming existing baselines on various multimodal tasks. This approach dramatically reduces the need for massive labeled datasets, unlocking practical business opportunities for rapid deployment of multimodal LLMs across industries with scarce annotation resources (source: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/semi-sample-efficient-modality-integration-tackles-new-domains-with-few-shot-examples/).