Artificial Intelligence

PTC Advances Leadership in AI-Driven Design with Launch of Onshape FeatureScript MCP Server

PTC - PTC today announced the availability of the new FeatureScript MCP Server capability in its Onshape CAD and PDM platform. Available through its Onshape Labs initiative, the capability enables engineers to create custom CAD features using natural language and AI. Engineers describe the functionality they need, and AI automatically helps build, test, debug, and refine the custom feature in FeatureScript until it works as intended.


Rockwell Automation Integrates Plex QMS With FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI to Advance AI-Driven Quality

Rockwell Automation - Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced an API-enabled integration between Plex Quality Management System (QMS) and FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI. The integration, available today, expands AI-driven quality management and reflects Rockwell's continued investment in artificial intelligence and elastic MES solutions.


Dassault Systèmes Expands the 3DEXPERIENCE AI-Native Agentic Platform with New Virtual Companion Skills to Co-Engineer with Humans

Dassault Systèmes - Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) today announced the availability of its Virtual Companions AURA for program management, LEO for complex engineering and MARIE for deep science on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, as well as Virtual Twin Factories for industries.


EY and Microsoft announce global initiative to help clients scale AI enterprise-wide value creation and move beyond experimentation

EY - The EY organization and Microsoft today announce a significant evolution of their Alliance, launching a new initiative to help organizations as they scale AI and deliver measurable, enterprise-wide outcomes at scale. The initiative brings together Microsoft’s “Forward Deployed Engineers” (FDE) and EY industry professionals to accelerate AI adoption across change management delivery models, powered by Microsoft’s FDE AI-native Hypervelocity Engineering approach.


Red Hat Launches New Developer Tools for Agentic AI

Red Hat - Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced expanded capabilities across its developer portfolio specifically built for the requirements of AI agents. Through the newly-available Red Hat Desktop and enhancements to Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, Red Hat intends to smooth the transition from agents running locally on developer workstations to production-scale deployments across the hybrid cloud.


Okay, what is Agentic AI?

Industrial Productivity - Agentic AI was without any doubt the most used buzzword at the Hannover Fair this year. The term could be found on a great many boots in all sorts of big slogans. A good opportunity for us — abusing the adage that there are no stupid questions — to visit a lot of these boots and ask: what do you actually mean by that?


SAP and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Deploy Multi-Agent AI

SAP - SAP and Google Cloud today announced a new partnership that will help marketers put AI agents to work at scale. Through new integrations between the SAP Engagement Cloud, SAP Customer Experience (SAP CX) and Joule solutions and Gemini Enterprise, joint customers can now deploy agents that securely access unified data stored across both ecosystems to execute complex marketing strategies based on high-level goals defined by the user.


OPC Foundation Advances OPC UA for the AI Era with Companion Specifications Optimized for Agentic AI

OPC Foundation - The OPC Foundation today announced the next step in its OPC UA for AI activities: building on the initial prototyping work published in the UA-for-AI-Prototype GitHub repository, the OPC Foundation will extend this work to convert all (over 430) OPC UA Companion Specifications into formats optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model context protocol (MCP) and AI-assisted engineering workflows.


Siemens launches the Eigen Engineering Agent

Siemens - Siemens today launched the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for automation engineering, now generally available. The Eigen Engineering Agent represents a new class of industrial AI product: one that no longer just generates suggestions but instead uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously.


Solita launches AI agent orchestrator for enterprise software development: Solita RoadCrewAO

Solita - Solita today announced the launch of Solita RoadCrew Agentic Orchestrator (Solita RoadCrewAO), a multi-agent tool designed for autonomous, enterprise-grade software development. It marks a significant step forward in how software is designed, built and operated in complex organisational environments.


Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce

Cisco - Cisco today announced significant security innovations designed for the agentic AI ecosystem, where software no longer just answers questions—it acts. By establishing trusted identities, enforcing strict Zero Trust Access controls, hardening agents before deployment, enforcing guardrails at runtime, and giving security operations center (SOC) teams the tools to stop threats at machine speed, Cisco is building security into the foundation of the emerging AI economy.


MIT CTL and Mecalux Develop an AI-based Simulator to Optimize Inventory Across Warehouses

MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics - The Intelligent Logistics Systems Lab (ILS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation & Logistics and Mecalux have developed an artificial intelligence-based simulator capable of optimizing inventory distribution across different warehouses within the same logistics network. The platform is called Genetic Evaluation & Simulation for Inventory Strategy (GENESIS)


Deloitte unveils physical AI solutions built with NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries to help accelerate industrial transformation

Deloitte - Deloitte today announced an expansion of its long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver next‑generation physical AI solutions. The effort includes development of new products and services in high‑fidelity digital twins, advanced computer vision and secure edge robotics, helping enable organizations to accelerate time‑to‑value, reduce operational risk and scale intelligent machines into production with confidence.


Snowflake Unveils Cortex Code, An AI Coding Agent That Understands Your Enterprise Data Context

Snowflake - Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today unveiled a new Snowflake-native AI coding agent and other tools purpose-built to help organizations move data and AI projects from idea to production faster. With Cortex Code, a data-native AI coding agent that automates and accelerates end-to-end enterprise development, users gain an agent that deeply understands and operates within their enterprise data context.


Caterpillar Teams With NVIDIA to Revolutionize Heavy Industry with Physical AI and Robotics

Caterpillar - Caterpillar today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to drive innovation across industries through next-generation, AI-enhanced customer solutions and manufacturing systems. This engagement will transform how work gets done for Caterpillar’s customers, dealers and employees.


Honeywell and TotalEnergies Pilot AI-Assisted Control Room to Accelerate Shift to Industrial Autonomy

Honeywell - Honeywell today announced a collaboration with TotalEnergies for the ongoing pilot of its AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant at TotalEnergies' Port Arthur Refinery in Texas. The initiative aims to support and empower operators to make timely and informed decisions while also providing the opportunity to enhance operational autonomy.


AI linked to a fourfold increase in productivity growth and 56% wage premium, while jobs grow even in the most easily automated roles

PwC - AI is making workers more valuable, productive, and able to command higher wage premiums, with job numbers rising even in roles considered most automatable, according to PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, released today. The report is based on analysis of close to a billion job ads from six continents.


Avanade to Launch Innovative AI Governance Platform

Avenade - Avanade, a leading Microsoft solutions provider and Duke Health have partnered together to design, build and implement Avanade’s Smart AI Governance Engine (SAIGE), a-first-of-its-kind healthcare-specific AI governance platform, using the power of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. The initiative advances Duke Health’s commitment to maintaining ethical and responsible standards while employing the transformative power of AI within clinical settings.


New Research Finds That Nearly Half of Executives Trust AI Over Themselves

SAP - Generative AI is increasingly influencing decision-making at the highest levels of business. SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced new research that reveals 44 percent of C-suite executives would override a decision they had already planned to make based on AI insights. Another 38 percent would trust AI to make business decisions on their behalf.


Rohde & Schwarz advances AI/ML-powered neural receiver testing in collaboration with NVIDIA

Rohde & Schwarz - Rohde & Schwarz, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has achieved a significant breakthrough in AI-driven wireless communication research. The latest proof-of-concept to be showcased at MWC 2025 in Barcelona leverages digital twin technology and high-fidelity ray tracing for more realistic testing of neural receivers for 5G-Advanced and 6G.


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