Category Manufacturing

Trends in AI for automation, predictive maintenance, and production.

Anthropic Sets Rules for AI Agents as They Move Into Labs and Factories

Anthropic unveiled an AI agents hardware standard to help labs and factories use robots and instruments more safely.

Perceptron has launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight visual AI model aimed at robots, warehouses and factory-floor automation.

Situational Awareness pours $400M into a chip startup as the AI hedge fund cuts public holdings and doubles down on infrastructure.

Jensen Huang’s Japan visit advances Nvidia’s physical AI push with robotics deals, a sovereign AI project and a new chip factory plan.

AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun rejects AGI hype, betting on world models to power safer robotics and physical AI.

SK Hynix IPO raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign U.S. listing ever, fueled by AI memory demand and new pressure for U.S. fabs.

Ashton Kutcher leaves Sound Ventures to launch an AI infrastructure-focused VC firm with Morgan Beller, signaling a shift in AI investing.

Omen AI raises $31 million to monitor data center cooling fluid in real time and reduce downtime as AI infrastructure expands.

Ford says its AI quality push fell short, so it rehired 350 veteran engineers to catch defects earlier and improve quality.

Ford quality reset reveals how automated systems failed, forcing the automaker to rehire engineers and rebuild its quality process.