US manufacturing expanded for the second consecutive month in February, with the PMI at 52.4 percent, while demand remained strong and prices rose sharply.

India is emerging as a key market for Industrial AI. Ranked third globally in AI competitiveness and first in AI skill penetration, the country combines engineering depth with accelerating industrial investment.

Nation-state-backed APT activity targeting OT and critical infrastructure is intensifying, underscoring the urgent need for stronger monitoring, resilience strategies, and ISA 62443-aligned cybersecurity programs.

Autodesk has invested $200 million in World Labs to accelerate development of physical-world artificial intelligence focused on 3D reasoning and spatial intelligence.

A comparative analysis of how a 7-day versus 4-week US-Iran conflict could affect global manufacturing, energy markets, shipping logistics, and raw material supply chains.

Amazon’s reported large-scale investment in OpenAI and the proposed AWS-hosted Frontier platform signals a strategic shift toward stateful, agentic AI infrastructure that could reshape enterprise and industrial AI deployment architectures.

Human behavior remains a primary vulnerability in supply chains, as social engineering, insider risks, and limited cyber awareness across interconnected partners can undermine even well-architected and technology-driven security frameworks.

Data harmonization is the foundational requirement for AI-driven supply chains, ensuring that A2A agents, MCP memory layers, RAG pipelines, and graph-based reasoning operate on consistent, integrated, and reliable enterprise data.

PTC has introduced cloud-native Model-Based Definition capabilities within its Onshape CAD and PDM platform to improve product definition and collaboration.

An ARC Forum session highlighted how Avantor is applying Decision Intelligence with Aera Technology to automate routine supply chain decisions and improve resilience, efficiency, and responsiveness.