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4 days ago | 
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According to the May Manufacturing ISM Report on Business, economic activity in the US manufacturing sector contracted for the third consecutive month. The May Manufacturing PMI registered 48.5 percent, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 48.7 percent recorded in April. Contraction in most of the indexes that measure demand and output have slowed, while inputs have started to weaken as noted below.
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1 week ago | 
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A consortium of Swedish partners, including AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Saab, SEB, and Wallenberg Investments AB, has announced its intention to invest in an AI compute infrastructure consortium and build a new Sweden-focused AI Factory that will utilize NVIDIA-based computing capabilities to help drive national digitalization.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Aramco Digital have announced their intent to enter into a strategic collaboration to develop, deploy, and commercialize state-of-the-art industrial edge AI technologies and solutions to drive the digital transformation of key industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The collaboration also includes the development of AI-driven industrial use cases and service offerings.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Wireless Broadband Alliance Services (WBA Services), a subsidiary of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, announced the commercial launch of WBA Services AFC, its Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) service.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Industrial edge software provider IOTech Systems has announced the launch of its Edge Central 4.0 offering. Optimized for demanding industrial edge environments, Edge Central 4.0 is designed to accelerate the deployment and adoption of the next generation of AI-driven industrial edge solutions. It is fully aligned with EdgeX Foundry’s open-source interoperability standards, to which IOTech is a core ecosystem contributor.
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3 weeks ago | 
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As AI workloads are added to rapidly evolving compute demands, power efficiency at the system-on-chip level is more important than ever. In response, the British semiconductor and software design company has developed validated Arm Compute Subsystems (CSS) to enable faster time-to-market, better performance-per-watt, and scalable innovation for its key markets: infrastructure, client, automotive, and edge AI for IoT.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Cisco, the network and security infrastructure provider, announced a series of strategic initiatives across all phases of the AI revolution in the United States and the Middle East, including:AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP): Cisco announced it will collaborate with the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), MGX, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and xAI. AIP initially aims to unlock $30 billion in capital from investors, asset owners, and corporations.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Siemens has expanded its industrial AI offerings with advanced AI agents built to operate seamlessly within its existing Industrial Copilot ecosystem. This development marks a shift from query-based AI assistants to autonomous agents capable of executing entire processes without human input. The system uses a toolbox of specialized agents to handle complex tasks across the industrial value chain.
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1 month ago | 
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The promise of Industry 4.0—focused on automation, real-time data analysis, and interconnected systems—depends on robust and reliable wireless connectivity. Private 5G and LTE networks are critical for delivering the low latency, high bandwidth, and secure communication required to support these advanced industrial applications. The newly formed 5G Operational Technology Alliance (5G-OT Alliance) envisions a future where private 5G and LTE fundamentally transform industrial operations.
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1 month ago | 
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Following the completion of a new generative AI pilot for scientific reviewers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an aggressive timeline to scale the use of artificial intelligence (AI) internally across all FDA centers by June 30, 2025. The agency found that the generative AI tools enable FDA scientists and subject-matter experts to spend less time on tedious, repetitive tasks that often slow the review process.
