Today's stories Nvidia and Palantir fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model for Nvidia’s supply chain. It beats a model 18 times its size. T U T Covered by 3 sources 5h ago CoreWeave Puts Field Engineers Inside Customer Teams for Physical AI U S Covered by 2 sources 2h ago Powering AI is an architecture problem M MIT Technology Review 3h ago (LEAD) SK Group chief visits AI data center under construction in Ulsan Y Yonhap News Agency 3h ago From Process Control To Industrial AI: What Actually Changes F Forbes 3h ago JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots A AI News (TechForge) 4h ago After outrunning Bolt, China's robot champion races towards real-world work K Kyodo News 7h ago Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center F Futurism 2h ago Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M (Lauren Goode/Wired) T Techmeme 12h ago Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs T Techmeme 9h ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion U Unite.AI 50m ago Meet Deere’s JD, an AI Assistant Aimed at Helping Farmers—and Its Sales T The Wall Street Journal 18h ago SK Group chief to visit AI data center under construction in Ulsan Y Yonhap News Agency 13h ago Neura Robotics, Seco Partner to Scale Physical AI in Europe A AI Business 17h ago A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address T The Next Web 22h ago This week Analog Devices to Acquire Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 Billion T T T +1 Covered by 4 sources 1d ago CloudNC aims to accelerate AI supply chain machining A U Covered by 2 sources 1d ago Where AI Adds Value: SKF Uses AI For Smart Product Defect Detection F Forbes 1d ago Wint Raises $36 Million Series D to Scale AI-Powered Water Intelligence Globally U Unite.AI 1d ago Modernizing complex legacy code with AI agents. M Mistral AI News 1d ago UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds T The Guardian 1d ago Carlos Moreira, CEO and Founder of SEALSQ – Interview Series U Unite.AI 1d ago How Indian Workers Are Helping Train the Robots That Will Replace Them B Bloomberg 2d ago Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown T The Next Web 2d ago OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres T The Next Web 2d ago South Korea’s AI boom could need 20 new nuclear reactors’ worth of power T The Next Web 2d ago TSMC backs ASML’s plan for bigger masks so its newest machines can print AI’s biggest chips T The Next Web 2d ago AI Is Changing What Manufacturers Are Expected To Know F Forbes 2d ago Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers (Financial Times) T Techmeme 2d ago Inceptio Tops 1 Billion Autonomous Trucking Km, Unveils Freight Physical AI U Unite.AI 2d ago Korean Battery Sector Eyes Humanoid Robots as Next Growth Engine B Bloomberg 2d ago Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy (Leila Miller/Reuters) T Techmeme 2d ago Inside The European Factory Where Robots Are Building Robots F Forbes 3d ago S. Korea to use manufacturing, defense industry capabilities for global peace: PM Y Yonhap News Agency 3d ago Scientists develop ‘ultrafast magnetic-field pulses’ memory system that could cut AI data center energy use by 100x — and even get close to hitting thermodynamic limits T TechRadar 3d ago MG Ship adds AI route optimisation as logistics returns accelerate A AI News (TechForge) 3d ago Architecting memory and storage in the AI era M MIT Technology Review 6d ago AI Investment and Semiconductor Prices H Hacker News 6d ago Nissan's AI-powered factory robots can haul 4,000 pounds — and call each other for backup B Business Insider 6d ago South Korea confirms chip investment talks with US as tariff threat grows T The Next Web 6d ago Before You Buy More Hardware, Check What Your Cluster Is Really Using F Forbes 7d ago Under The Hood Of Automotive AI: What’s Changed F Forbes 7d ago Four Manufacturing AI Use Cases That Pay Off, And One That Doesn't F Forbes 7d ago Creating A Digital Backbone For AI-Driven Manufacturing F Forbes 7d ago AI Is Reshaping Food Manufacturing: Is Your Factory Ready? F Forbes 7d ago This month Industrial AI Founders Keep Solving the Wrong Problem H Hacker News 7d ago Here’s What Modern Reindustrialization Actually Means—And How Data Centers Are Driving It In America F Forbes 7d ago The Industrial Revolution Of Intelligence: The Rise Of The AI Factory F Forbes 7d ago LTO Tape Shipments Up 57% in Q1 2026 as AI and Archive Demand Accelerate H Hacker News 7d ago Why The AI Race Will Be Won On The Factory Floor F Forbes 7d ago ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it T The Next Web 7d ago BUUU Group to Buy 60% of Brightray in AI Data Center Push U Unite.AI 7d ago Tech pilgrims flock to China as global innovation race heats up K Kyodo News 7d ago LITEON Takes 25% Stake in Liquid-Cooling Maker DCX in $176M Deal U Unite.AI 7d ago Sivers Commits $30M to Glasgow InP Laser Expansion for AI Datacenter Ramp U Unite.AI 7d ago A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed "Data Center Alley", which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) T Techmeme 8d ago End-to-end engineering reference for AI data centers H Hacker News 8d ago Ben Jennings on the rise of datacentres in Britain – cartoon T The Guardian 8d ago Google Tapping A $350 Million Solar Plant Powered With Zinc Batteries F Forbes 8d ago Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale M MIT Technology Review 8d ago That's everything we have on Industry & Manufacturing right now