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Anthropic announces $50 billion investment in US AI infrastructure

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Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot, has unveiled plans for a $50 billion investment in American computing infrastructure, partnering with Fluidstack to build a series of advanced data centres in Texas and New York, with additional sites expected to follow.

The facilities are being custom-designed to maximise efficiency for Anthropic’s AI workloads and to support continued frontier-level research and development.

According to the company, the programme will create approximately 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs, with facilities coming online throughout 2026. [Read more…] about Anthropic announces $50 billion investment in US AI infrastructure

Emerging Tools Shaping Content Creation in 2026

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Digital content has always evolved with technology, but the pace is picking up. Research from the Content Marketing Institute’s 2026 B2B report shows that marketers are looking past hype to tools that truly make a difference.

As we approach 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) and related innovations are changing the way creators come up with ideas, draft, edit, and share material.

Marketers who once relied on separate software for writing, visuals, and analytics now use connected systems that think, plan, and improve alongside them. [Read more…] about Emerging Tools Shaping Content Creation in 2026

Interview with Schneider Electric’s digital leader Peter Weckesser: ‘AI is the brain’

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Schneider Electric is best known as a global leader in power systems and energy management – the company that keeps the world’s infrastructure running.

Less visible, but increasingly vital to its strategy, is a growing digital and software-driven business focused on automation, IoT, and AI. At the centre of that transformation is Peter Weckesser, Schneider Electric’s chief digital officer.

Weckesser doesn’t see technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital twins as disruptive forces, but as “strategic enablers of resilience, efficiency, and competitive growth”. [Read more…] about Interview with Schneider Electric’s digital leader Peter Weckesser: ‘AI is the brain’

Reducing Development Time in Robotics With AI Code Assistants

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Robotics does not care about patience. Motors fail, sensors drift, and deadlines creep forward like slow-moving predators.

Every hour wasted on hunting down an elusive syntax issue or rewriting boilerplate code steals time from testing, tuning, and pushing the machine to act in the real world.

Developers know this cycle in ai code generation: build, debug, rebuild, all while watching the calendar shrink like a drying sponge. It becomes painfully clear that the problem isn’t the hardware; it’s the time burned in the invisible trenches of coding. [Read more…] about Reducing Development Time in Robotics With AI Code Assistants

Deloitte report says ‘physical AI’ era has begun as intelligent robots reshape industry

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Deloitte has published a new report arguing that the world is entering the era of “physical AI” – intelligent robots capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in the physical world – and says the technology is set to reshape manufacturing, construction, logistics, and other industrial sectors.

The report, How robotics and physical AI are reshaping industries and society, describes a “pivotal moment” driven by three converging forces: rapid advances in AI models, falling hardware costs, and deepening labour shortages.

Deloitte says physical AI systems represent the next step beyond traditional automation, enabling machines to “autonomously interact with, interpret, and make decisions within physical environments, often in real time and with real-world feedback loops”. [Read more…] about Deloitte report says ‘physical AI’ era has begun as intelligent robots reshape industry

Hyundai and Nvidia partner to develop autonomous mobility, AI factories, and smart manufacturing

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Hyundai Motor Group and Nvidia have agreed a major expansion of their partnership to advance autonomous mobility, robotics and AI-driven manufacturing, including the development of a new “AI factory” powered by Nvidia’s latest Blackwell infrastructure.

The companies say the system will support the training, validation and deployment of AI models across Hyundai’s vehicle platforms, robotics projects and smart factory operations.

Hyundai plans to use Nvidia DGX and other infrastructure to train large-scale AI models, Nvidia Omniverse and Cosmos running on RTX PRO Servers for digital-twin factories and robot simulation, and Nvidia DRIVE AGX Thor as an “AI brain” for vehicles and robots. [Read more…] about Hyundai and Nvidia partner to develop autonomous mobility, AI factories, and smart manufacturing

AMD partners with Robotec to build ‘open ecosystem’ for autonomous systems and robotics

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AMD Silo AI is collaborating with Robotec.ai, a developer of simulation platforms for robotics applications, to optimize and scale digital twin and scenario reconstruction workloads for next-generation automotive and robotics systems running on AMD Instinct GPUs with the ROCm software stack.

Aligned with Robotec.ai’s mission, AMD Silo AI is helping to build safe, human-friendly robotics through Robotec.ai’s open-source, AI-driven digital twin simulation tools.

Building on Robotec.ai’s work with AMD Kria SOM, this collaboration combines Robotec.ai’s flagship RoSi platform – an end-to-end tool for developing, training, and testing robotics and autonomous systems – with the scalable compute platforms of AMD. [Read more…] about AMD partners with Robotec to build ‘open ecosystem’ for autonomous systems and robotics

Why AI Takeoff Tools Are Becoming the New Standard for Competitive Contractors

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Artificial intelligence is transforming how construction projects are estimated and delivered. For decades, contractors have spent countless hours calculating quantities, measuring blueprints, and checking data across multiple systems.

Now, AI-powered takeoff tools are redefining that process. Using advanced computer vision and machine learning, they can interpret drawings, identify components, and produce highly accurate quantity counts within minutes.

This evolution is not a novelty; it is the foundation of a broader digital shift in the construction industry. As competition intensifies, contractors who adopt AI-assisted takeoff systems find they can respond faster, bid smarter, and deliver projects with greater precision. [Read more…] about Why AI Takeoff Tools Are Becoming the New Standard for Competitive Contractors

World’s largest music company to release AI music from now on

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Universal Music Group (UMG) – the world’s largest music company and whose catalogue includes Taylor Swift (main picture), ABBA, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Ariana Grande, and thousands of other world-famous and timeless artists – are set to create and release AI music from now. 

The company has teamed up with Udio, an AI-powered music creation platform, to announce “industry-first strategic agreements”, under which the companies settled copyright infringement litigation and will collaborate on an “innovative, new commercial music creation, consumption and streaming experience”.

In addition to the compensatory legal settlement, the new license agreements for recorded music and publishing will provide further revenue opportunities for UMG artists and songwriters.

The new platform, which will be launched in 2026, will be powered by new cutting-edge generative AI technology that will be trained on authorized and licensed music. [Read more…] about World’s largest music company to release AI music from now on

Benefits of AI in Ticketing Systems

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AI enhances the effectiveness of ticketing systems by automating tasks, speeding up response times, and increasing overall productivity.

The article here discusses how AI benefits customer service through AI ticketing systems and the operational streamlining that results. [Read more…] about Benefits of AI in Ticketing Systems