The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
Schneider Electric acquired Norwegian industrial AI company Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, aiming to integrate its data and AI platform into its Aveva software unit. The deal positions Schneider to lead …
Schneider Electric acquired Cognite for $3.1 billion in late June 2026, marking the largest Norwegian software exit. The deal gives Schneider ownership of Cognite's industrial data platform, which con…
The US grid cannot add capacity fast enough to meet surging datacenter power demand from AI labs and hyperscalers, driving behind-the-meter (BTM) solutions to power over half of new US datacenters by …
Pigment co-founder and CEO Eléonore Crespo said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers 'at the speed of light,' as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates. The Paris-…
Siemens Digital Industries CEO Cedrik Neike said South Korea's factory data gives it a unique advantage in industrial AI, and announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to bring localized AI tools to Ko…
NVent Electric plc is building an AI data center growth case around liquid cooling and high-density rack infrastructure, with collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens. The company reported a 53% year-ov…
NVIDIA announced XR AI, a developer library for building AI agents that operate through AR glasses and XR devices, enabling hands-free, context-aware assistance in real-world environments. The platfor…
NVIDIA released XR AI, an open-source beta library for building intelligent agents on AR glasses and XR devices, integrating live camera and microphone streams with multimodal AI models and enterprise…
Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built Sound Shield, an AI acoustic drone detection system using €100-150 sensors that consume 1W each. The system identifies drones by engine sound and is pitched fo…
Siemens and Google Cloud created Knowledge Fabric, an AI system using knowledge graphs and agentic workflows to modernize industrial software development. The system reduced implementation effort in a…
Alibaba unveiled its first suite of AI models for robots, including RynnBrain for spatial understanding and Qwen3.7-Max for agentic tasks, as the company pivots from chatbots to autonomous agents. The…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens supervisory board chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe as special envoy for industrial AI, sparking immediate conflict-of-interest accusatio…
Fluence Energy (FLNC) announced a collaboration with Siemens and Nvidia to develop AI data centers. The partnership aims to integrate energy storage and digital infrastructure to support the growing p…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens’ chairman as an adviser on industrial AI, sparking conflict-of-interest accusations after the German engineering firm helped secure…
NVIDIA today announced new software, open source models and partnerships with leading software platform providers to build autonomous AI agents for industries and enterprises. Cadence, Dassault Systèm…
A developer rescued a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant from memory leaks and deployed it on a Render free-tier instance with a 512MB RAM limit. The engineer re-engineered the pipeline by…
Germany’s IT job market in 2026 faces a paradox: a record 109,000 unfilled IT positions persist even as the country endures its worst industrial downturn since reunification, with GDP stagnant for thr…
The electronic design automation (EDA) market for PCB design reached $4.2 billion in Q1 2026, marking its 20th consecutive quarter of growth, driven primarily by AI integration that now commands premi…
The semiconductor industry faces a bottleneck in chip design as AI demand drives increasing complexity, compressed timelines, and a shrinking engineering workforce. Verification now consumes up to 70%…