Rivian has rolled the first customer-ready R2 SUVs off the production line at its factory in Normal, Illinois, just days after it was hit by an EF-1 tornado that tore off part of the roof.

Despite the damage, founder and CEO RJ Scaringe told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday morning that Rivian doesn’t expect any delays to the R2’s rollout, which is crucial to the company’s survival.

“The tornado went through the south end of the plant, and ripped the roof off the building, and knocked down some of the plant as well, and so the last 72 hours have been around the clock,” he said. Scaringe explained that Rivian has had to change how and where it brings some materials into the factory to build the R2.

But “we’re not making any changes to the plan,” he said, referring to the company’s production roadmap.

Scaringe wasn’t asked when Rivian will make the first R2 deliveries during the interview. The company has previously said it will start shipping R2 SUVs before the first half of 2026 comes to an end.

Getting the R2 into production is a major milestone for the company. It’s the first production vehicle Rivian has made that has a chance to reach mass-market customers, as it costs far less than the company’s current R1 EVs. It’s also supposed to help the company finally reach profitability after years of losing money on every vehicle it sold.

The company has big expectations for the R2. Rivian told investors earlier this year that it expects to deliver between 20,000 and 25,000 of the SUVs by the end of 2026. If Rivian achieves that, it would become one of the fastest-scaling new EVs ever launched in the U.S., second only to Tesla’s Model Y.

That said, Rivian is launching with a version of the R2 that costs nearly $13,000 more than the $45,000 price tag the company spent years promoting. The launch edition R2 starts at $57,990, with a slightly cheaper $53,990 variant coming by the end of this year. Rivian won’t sell an R2 for under $50,000 until the first half of 2027, and a true base model starting at $45,000 won’t hit the market until late 2027.

And that’s if the $45,000 R2 ever arrives at all. When Rivian announced pricing for the SUV in March, the company said the base model price will start “around $45,000” — not “at $45,000” as it had promoted on its website as recently as February.

During its Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, the company announced a slew of Workspace-focused updates, including the addition of its AI Overviews feature to Gmail. The feature, which today uses AI to summarize Google Search results, will now do the same for Gmail users in the workplace.

According to Google, this will allow Gmail users to ask questions in search using natural language and then get concise answers without having to open and read different emails.

The company suggests the feature could be used to ask business-related questions about topics typically shared in emails, like those about performance improvements, project milestones, invoices, comments on decks, trip details, and more with straightforward answers.

The AI Overview will create an instant summary pulled from across multiple emails and conversations.

While not everyone prefers to have AI as their first step to finding an answer, it is rapidly becoming the norm, both within Google’s products and elsewhere on the web.

In this case, Google says the AI Overviews in Gmail will be the default setting if the company has Gemini for Workspace in Gmail enabled, and if Workspace Intelligence access to Gmail is enabled. (End users must have “Smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet” and “Google Workspace smart features” enabled, too.)

The feature was previously available to consumers with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions. Google says it will also now come to business, enterprise, and education customers as well through the following products:

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Consumers: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

Alongside the launch, Google said it’s also making AI Overviews in Drive broadly available to eligible Workspace and Google AI plans. It was previously in beta.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday with a video in which he announced one of the company’s biggest new products: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google’s tool is intended for building and managing agents at scale. This is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and to Microsoft Foundry.

Given that AI, and agents in particular, are furthest along for technical tasks like coding, and that the tech is so new to the enterprise that security remains a real concern, Google has made an interesting choice with this tool. Agent Platform is particularly geared at IT and technical teams.

The business folks, meanwhile, are directed toward what Google calls its Gemini Enterprise app, introduced in the fall. They can work with agents built by IT or build their own for tasks like scheduling meetings, performing trigger-based processes, creating shortcuts for repetitive tasks, or creating and editing files without needing to switch apps, Google says.

Google also underscored that the underlying models these tools tap into include Google’s own Gemini LLM and Nano Banana 2 image generator, as well as Anthropic’s Claude. The company announced support for Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku — in other words, flagship, reasoning, and lower-cost models, including the new Opus 4.7 that launched last week.