Insider Brief Hitachi is partnering with Agile Robots to develop physical AI systems for complex factory work, combining Hitachi’s AI, manufacturing and edge-computing technology with Agile Robots’ robotics platform. The agreement comes alongside Hitachi’s separate partnership with Fanuc, reinforcing its broader push to build an HMAX Industry ecosystem for more autonomous manufacturing. Agile Robots contributes…

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This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin’s new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost’s writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon $3 billion. Student AI use is no longer a future scenario. The useful question for…

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With enterprise AI moving from pilot projects to production at speed, few events capture the state of the industry quite like World Summit AI. The flagship Amsterdam edition returns on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 October 2026 at Taets Art and Event Park, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, over 100 exhibitors and 10…

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Insider Brief Wandercraft acquired Ekso Bionics from a ChronoScale Holdings subsidiary, combining their medical exoskeleton businesses across rehabilitation and personal mobility while expanding Wandercraft’s U.S. presence. The combined portfolio includes Atalante X, EksoNR, Eve and Indego Personal, with Atalante X and EksoNR used at more than 700 rehabilitation centers worldwide and holding U.S. FDA clearances…

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Insider Brief South Korea’s physical AI news this week spanned on-device robotics chips, cobot sensing, shipyard and highway automation, multi-agent manufacturing and a modular robotics IPO. Semifive and Mobilint advanced an outdoor robotics AI chip project, Aidin Robotics joined a Doosan-led cobot program, and Hanwha Ocean and Korea Expressway Corp. separately signed agreements covering shipbuilding…

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San Francisco-based Flow Engineering, a three-year-old startup building AI tools for hardware design, has secured a $50 million Series B round at a $750 million valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity Partners, best known for its investments in Elon Musk’s companies, particularly SpaceX, and Gavin…

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Satlyt, a startup headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Nairobi, has secured an $8 million seed round led by Houston-based Non Sibi Ventures to build software that lets AI models run on satellites and share large computing workloads in space. Co-founder Rama Afullo, a Kenyan American engineer who previously worked at Google Cloud and SpaceX’s Starlink,…

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By Ian Foley What happens when a robot learns to run without the millions of years of compromises built into the human body? Around 25M years ago, our ancestors lost their tails, leaving behind only the coccyx. This happened long before humans walked upright, but once we moved onto two legs, our arms became part…

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OpenAI has had a busy week, introducing a new Decisions API and expanded ChatGPT shopping features while parting ways with three safety researchers over alleged information sharing. At the company’s DevDay event on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman mentioned the Decisions API, which gives the Luna model a predefined set of options to choose from, such…

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Meta is pushing back against a report by Inc. columnist Jason Aten, who said the company’s AI agent Muse read his private messages on his Mac without permission. Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone said on X that the Messages integration is entirely opt-in and that Muse cannot read messages unless users enable both Full Disk Access…

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