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AI surge strains data centres over power & capacity

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AI boom pushes UK data centres towards grid limits as operators warn of power, cooling and supply chain strains.
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RobCo appoints Dennis Hauser as Chief Financial Officer

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RobCo taps Dennis Hauser as Chief Financial Officer to back US expansion after USD $100 million funding round and sharpen its RaaS push.
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Exclusive: Orderfox pushes into autonomous execution with Gieni ABX

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Orderfox readies Gieni ABX, an autonomous execution layer to turn its industrial AI insights into completed tasks across enterprise systems.
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Fluke launches RotAlign Core & Elite alignment systems

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Fluke unveils RotAlign Core and Elite shaft alignment tools to cut costly downtime, as misalignment drives up to 50% of failures.
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AI shifts data centre focus from scale to connectivity

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AI is redrawing the data centre map, shifting investment from hyperscale campuses to distributed, tightly connected regional clusters.
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Energy & chemicals sector ramps up autonomy by 2030

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Energy and chemicals groups target 80% autonomous operations by 2030 as AI-led automation accelerates amid costs, labour gaps and demand.
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AI drives hiring shift to senior devs at EU startups

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AI-native EU startups are shrinking dev teams and hiring seasoned engineers as AI generates most new code, Notion Capital research shows.
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ANYbotics names Thierry Obédé Chief Revenue Officer

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Swiss robotics firm ANYbotics appoints veteran industrial tech executive Thierry Obédé as Chief Revenue Officer to drive global growth.
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Automatic Technology unveils lighter modular 'Dave' operator

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Automatic Technology launches Dave, a lighter modular commercial door operator promising faster installs, fewer variants and wireless-first control.
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UK lags China & US in race to digital, AI-led factories

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China and the US are racing ahead of the UK in adopting AI-led, software-defined factories, raising fresh fears over British competitiveness.
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ZEDEDA, Submer unveil liquid-cooled modular edge AI

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ZEDEDA and Submer unveil modular liquid‑cooled edge AI pods, packs and containers to run GPU inference in harsh, remote industrial sites.
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British bank backs SuperSeed Physical AI fund with cash

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British Business Bank pledges up to GBP £50 million to SuperSeed's new Physical AI fund targeting early-stage industrial tech start-ups.
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ADLINK unveils Nvidia Thor edge AI systems for robots

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ADLINK launches Nvidia Thor-powered edge AI platforms to drive safer, real-time robotics, medical imaging and autonomous machine deployments.
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AVEVA, Nvidia tie up on digital twins for AI Factories

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AVEVA and Nvidia are building lifecycle digital twins to design, run and optimise gigawatt-scale AI Factories and data centres.
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Fluke adds AI tools to eMaint to aid maintenance teams

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Fluke adds AI tools to eMaint, promising faster work orders, smarter PMs and voice-driven guidance for stretched maintenance teams.
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Nozomi named Leader in Gartner CPS security ranking

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Nozomi again lands in Gartner's Leaders quadrant for CPS protection, topping four key use cases in the 2026 Critical Capabilities report.
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Schneider Electric unveils open software-defined DCS

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Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure Foxboro SDA, an open software-defined DCS aimed at flexible, hardware-agnostic industrial control.
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Nvidia pushes Jetson as edge hub for open AI models

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Nvidia is pitching Jetson as the key edge platform for open generative AI, pushing speech, vision and robotics models out of the data centre.
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NTT DATA unveils global Nvidia-powered AI factories

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NTT DATA launches Nvidia-based 'enterprise AI factories' to help global firms standardise, scale and govern production AI deployments.
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Claroty named Leader in 2026 Gartner CPS security report

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Claroty again named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 CPS Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant as industrial cyber-physical threats intensify.