Manufacturing

Kratos Expands Hypersonics Manufacturing Capability with Acquisition of AMCM M 8K Large-Format Metal Additive Manufacturing System

Investment supports continued growth of Kratos' Indiana operations and advances domestic hypersonic manufacturing capabilities

Audi investing $4B to build its first US plant in Georgia

The factory will have a production capacity of up to 200,000 vehicles a year, with construction slated to begin in 2027 and the first vehicles built in the early 2030s.

Eplus3D and Hofmann CNC Partner to Combine Metal Additive Manufacturing with Precision CNC Machining

PreScalar Raises $7M to Build the Software Layer for the Modern Factory

Evology Manufacturing Goes Big, Adds Large Frame EOS M 400-4 Metal Additive Manufacturing System as Production Demand Soars

THE ASSEMBLY SHOW OPENS OCTOBER 27 IN ROSEMONT WITH PLANT OF THE YEAR SPOTLIGHT, EXCLUSIVE FACTORY TOUR AND INDUSTRY NETWORKING

Three-day event features Award Presentation to Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, an exclusive Weber Grill factory tour, AI in Manufacturing executive keynote and Taste of Rosemont networking reception

Apple Intelligence to roll out on iPhones in China in December with Alibaba backing

Apple’s long-awaited artificial intelligence features will be officially launched in China in December, ending two years of regulatory uncertainty as the US tech giant seeks to bring advanced technologies to its second-largest market with the help of Alibaba Group Holding. The first batch of Apple Intelligence services will roll out to Chinese iPhone users alongside the iOS 27.3 update in December, following an open beta test with developers starting November 4, the US company said in a...

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

Nvidia moves beyond GPUs as Meta's Muse agent stack pulls it deeper into AI infrastructure

The launch of Muse in September across Meta's expanding agent ecosystem has highlighted how quickly AI agents are evolving beyond conventional chatbot architectures, bringing more complex operating requirements and increasingly diversified roles into the definition of what an AI agent can do.

Samsung Warns AI Memory Shortage Will Worsen Through 2027

Samsung expects the demand for memory to “far exceed” supply in 2027, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) press release announcing its third quarter financial results. That demand will be driven by companies’ capital expenditure on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, which Samsung expects to reach “a historic level” as the AI ecosystem expands and companies […] The post Samsung Warns AI Memory Shortage Will Worsen Through 2027 appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Google: Agentic AI Will Drive New Demands on Data Center CPUs

Agents present a bursty workload, leaving CPUs frequently idle, which is placing new demands on CPU infrastructure. The post Google: Agentic AI Will Drive New Demands on Data Center CPUs appeared first on EE Times. ]]>

AI, fuelled by advanced chips, set to power semiconductor manufacturing: industry veteran

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely the driving force behind global semiconductor demand, but is also actively reinventing how chips are designed and built, industry leaders and scientists said at a major science forum in Shanghai on Friday. Chen Yunji, co-founder of AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies, predicted that the integration between AI and chip design would eventually automate the chip design process entirely. “In the [next] 10 years, the most important development … is the RSI.

Zocdoc Opens Its Platform to AI Agents

The app that connects users to healthcare providers will allow AI agents to access its database

A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996

A computer scientist has achieved a breakthrough in a nearly 25-year-old problem involving how computers calculate distances across enormous networks. The new algorithm delivers more reliable estimates for closely connected points without sacrificing speed, overcoming a longstanding limitation of earlier methods. Its secret lies in a smarter way of sampling network connections at multiple scales.

Anthropic IPO filing offers clues for enterprise AI, model price wars

With the frontier AI lab about to go public, businesses mull the long-term stability of the Claude creator. OpenAI goes on a price-cut binge to compete with cheap China models.

Chip Industry Week In Review

HBM shortages threaten AI expansion; TSMC weighs price hikes; advanced packaging ramps; domain-specialized AI models; Infineon and UMC boost fab investments; Intel's quantum move; Lam and imec advance 3D integration; Google expands TPUs; AI-driven earnings; CPU benchmarking methodology for agentic AI. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI secures Hangzhou state investment worth hundreds of millions of RMB

01.AI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Kai-Fu Lee, has secured investment totaling hundreds of millions of RMB from state-backed investors in Hangzhou and the city’s Linping district. The company announced the agreement on October 30, following its signing two days earlier. Under the arrangement, 01.AI will establish its headquarters in Linping and build a […]

AI inference chip startup Nano-core Chip raises over RMB 1 billion in Series C2 funding

Hangzhou-based AI inference chip developer Nano-core Chip has raised more than RMB 1 billion in Series C2 funding, the company announced on October 28. The round was led by JianTou Investment, with participation from Hangzhou Capital, Kaitai Capital, and other investors. The company will use the proceeds for product development and preparation for volume production. […]

Amazon’s Ads nears $20 billion in Q3 as it bets on agentic AI to fuel further growth

Amazon Ads Agent promises simpler buying, but raises transparency questions A

Sandisk sees 60–90GB of NAND per CPU in AI agent workloads

Sandisk sees demand for roughly 60 to 90 gigabytes of NAND flash per CPU in certain AI inference and agent-orchestration applications, as customers rethink how they use different memory and storage technologies across their AI systems.

Mistral Touts Cyber Capabilities of Its ‘Chonk’ AI Model

Mistral released an updated version of its Large 4 artificial intelligence model, saying in a Thursday (Oct. 29) announcement that it comes with improved coding and cybersecurity capabilities. The model builds on a version released in public preview earlier this month, the French startup said in the announcement. “The response to the preview has exceeded […] The post Mistral Touts Cyber Capabilities of Its ‘Chonk’ AI Model appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Amazon Says External AI Agents Aren’t Hurting Its Ad Business

The company reported its highest-ever operating margin in Q3 of 13.9%

Building AI Capacity in Southeast Asia: Education, Talent and Regional Cooperation Conference held in Bali

The international conference “Building AI Capacity in Southeast Asia: Education, Talent and Regional Cooperation” took place on October 20

An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’

Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.