Zipline had a banner week: it unveiled acoustics software that cuts delivery-drone noise by 68%, launched its First Flight early-access program in Austin, and struck a deal with Uber aiming for one million daily U.S. deliveries starting in Dallas and Houston. Meanwhile in Côte d'Ivoire, the company and national government agreed to scale from one hub to ten, reaching 12 million people over eight years with backing from a $150 million U.S. State Department award. New peer-reviewed research underscored the stakes, finding Zipline's African operations cut child malnutrition deaths by 22% and boosted smallholder pig farmers' returns by 68%.