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Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider
French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a 3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to
Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an 8.5 million seed round led by Inde
Evan Halper / Washington Post: Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial — Claims that
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Scott Gatreau, Director of Information Security, at Turner Industries, a privately owned industrial contractor that provides construction, maintenance, and fabricatio
Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t
Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Fr
Reuters: SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 — SK Hynix (000660.KS) Chief Executive Kw
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a 50M Series B led by Plural — Orbital Industr
Financial Times: Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that under
Nikkei Asia: How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins — HONG KONG — The global me
U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed the signing of an executive order designed to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it. I postponed it,” Trump tol
Databricks Genie is a conversational AI platform that enables businesses to build industry-specific solutions through natural language interactions with data. The solution allows partners to develop a
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The
Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO — The second maj
John Markoff / New York Times: Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 — For decades,
Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~37B, below 44.5B est., and a record ~1.5B net income, below 1.8B est. — Foxconn Industria
The White House accused foreign entities primarily based in China of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems using tens of thousands of proxy accounts . W
Financial Times: Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech — Trump official Michae
George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The
Joel Khalili / Wired: A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation
The Atlantic: As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors — AI companies are stripping universit
Aishwarya Jain / Reuters: Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips — Eric Trump-bac
Bloomberg: SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle — South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. j
Financial Times: An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more — Sriram Krishnan tell
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a 50M Series B led by DST at a 500M valuation, as it enters the US — Partly Group
David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP — Isometric h
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a 107M seed led by Arch — Trase, an AI
Bloomberg: ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging — ASML Holding NV's ascent to
Databricks announced the winners of its 2026 Customer Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements and innovation by Databricks customers across various industries. The awards highlight organizati
This OpenAI publication likely discusses how governments and policymakers should approach industrial policy in an era dominated by artificial intelligence and computational intelligence capabilities.
Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from 95.9B in FY23 to 103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M — India'
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices — M
Krysta Escobar / CNBC: Modular data center maker Armada raised a 230M Series B co-led by Overmatch, 8090 Industries, and BlackRock at a 2B valuation, and plans a new Arizona factory — Armada, which bu
Bloomberg: Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos — Communist officials who long v
Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex — “The question
Pieter Haeck / Politico: EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act — Deal marks fi
Bloomberg: How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline — From the rooftop terrace o
Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after
Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is
@themidasproj: The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news
The Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for coal plants and a new export terminal , utilizing Cold War-era authority to support existing facilities and build new coal plants. This i
Reuters: China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments — China on Friday tightened oversight of
Intrinsic, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence robot software company, unveiled today during Automate 2026 an AI robotic prototype that will help companies modularize factory floors with automated ro
JuliaHub Inc., an “agentic” industrial engineering startup that’s trying to automate complex manufacturing processes with artificial intelligence, said today it has raised 65 million in a Series B fun
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security — Presiden
Genesis Workbench is a collaborative framework developed by Databricks and NVIDIA designed to accelerate AI adoption in the life sciences industry by providing integrated tools and best practices. The
Databricks Genie enables enterprise conversational intelligence across multiple industries through partner technology and functional solutions, allowing organizations to interact with data and systems
Mathematicians from major institutions have published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics resea
Bloomberg: Procurement records show at least seven Chinese universities that support the country's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips — At least seven Chinese univ
Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours. Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the simulatio
Bloomberg: A profile of California Rep. Ro Khanna, who spent years cheering on the tech industry and now supports a 5% billionaire wealth tax and stricter AI regulations — Ro Khanna spent years cheeri
Sam Tobin / Reuters: In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of “industrial scale” copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition — Online fast-fash
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures — Monumental deve
Bloomberg: How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers — From data center backlash t
Laura Bratton / The Information: Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry — When Anthr
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's 14' and 16' OLED touch screen MacBook Pros will be powered by the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and have an updated industrial design — Apple Inc.'s first-
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a 300M Series C led by Temasek at a 2.4B valuation — PhysicsX, a Br