Cisco Investments, the global corporate venture investment arm of Cisco, launched a $1 Billion AI investment fund intended to bolster the startup ecosystem and expand development of secure and reliable AI solutions.

Valmet and Körber have reached a joint venture agreement to further strengthen Körber venture FactoryPal, which offers software developed for tissue converting operations that improves shopfloor manufacturing performance and productivity. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, designed to help customers accelerate and simplify the deployment and management of private 5G networks

Rockwell Automation announced further collaborations with NVIDIA for the development of safer and smarter industrial AI mobile robots

The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), made multiple announcements related to expanding and enhancing the LoRaWAN Certification Program

Schneider Electric and AVEVA announced a partnership with IN-CORE Systèmes to help drive greater efficiency in Electric Vehicle battery production

To address the heightened edge computing requirements for real-time AI applications in industrial environments, NVIDIA has announced the general availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise-IGX with NVIDIA Holoscan on the NVIDIA Edge AI Sensing Platform

The Manufacturing ISM Report On Business is published monthly by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), the largest supply management organization in the world, as well as one of the most respected.

ZEDEDA announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation's Margo initiative as a steering committee member. Margo is a new open-source project focused on creating open standards for interoperability at the edge for industrial automation environments.

The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation jointly announced their intention to collaborate on establishment of common specifications for secure software development based on CRA-Compliant Cybersecurity Processes