Beyond Meat Gambles on Protein Soda Amidst Veggie Burger Struggles
Beyond Meat launched a protein soda called Beyond Immerse, signaling a potential shift in the company's business model as its veggie burger business faces challenges, according to The Verge on January 28, 2026. The new product marks the company's first venture that doesn't attempt to replicate meat.
Dominic Preston of The Verge noted that the protein soda might be the company's "last chance and best hope" to turn things around. The move comes as Beyond Meat grapples with the performance of its core veggie burger offerings.
In other news, Airtable debuted Superagent on Tuesday, a standalone research agent that deploys teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel to complete research tasks, according to VentureBeat. The technical innovation lies in how Superagent's orchestrator maintains context. Airtable's orchestrator maintains full visibility over the entire execution journey: the initial plan, execution steps and sub-agent results. This creates what co-founder Howie Liu calls "a coherent journey" where the orchestrator made all decisions along the way.
VentureBeat also reported on Western Sugar's AI transformation, enabled by its early adoption of SAP S4HANA Cloud Public Edition ten years prior. Richard Caluori, Director of Corporate Controlling at Western Sugar, stated that the company moved to the cloud to escape "a trainwreck: a heavily customized ERP system so laden with custom ABAP code that it had become unupgradable." The move has positioned Western Sugar to take advantage of SAP's rollout of business AI capabilities.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's administration has been unable to bend the case of Tina Peters, a former election clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, to his will, Wired reported. Peters became a figure in the election denial community after she used another person's credentials to facilitate an associate watching a software update of her county's election management system. Peters has served roughly.
Allison Johnson of The Verge wrote about her ideal folding phone, which doesn't exist yet. She envisions a device that bridges the gap between the Google Pixel and the Samsung Galaxy foldables. Johnson describes a book-style folding phone as a gadget that poses one radical idea: What if you always had a computer in your pocket?
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