PTC announced that it has acquired pure-systems, a provider of product and software variant management solutions.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, Infotech, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing transportation departments in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, announced an initiative to support digital delivery initiatives for departments of transportation.

ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with UK-based clean technology group Altilium to jointly explore how the integration of automation, electrification, and digital technologies in plants across Europe can support the scaling up of battery materials recycling

Rockwell Automation announced that is has it completed its acquisition of Clearpath Robotics, an Ontario, Canada-based supplier of autonomous robotics, including autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)

BitFlow, Inc., a supplier of frame grabber technology for the machine vision industry, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Advantech in an all-cash transaction representing a 100% equity stake in the company.

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Airkit.ai, a creator of AI powered customer service applications and experiences.

Rockwell Automation announced a partnership with Everactive, a Santa Clara, CA-based supplier of wireless and batteryless condition-monitoring solutions to Increase Customer Productivity and Sustainability for industrial customers

Amazon and Anthropic announced a strategic collaboration that will advance generative AI by bringing together their respective technology and expertise in safer generative artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of Anthropic’s future foundation models and make them widely accessible to AWS customers.