The NT government will introduce legislation to monitor toxic industrial air pollutants, including carcinogens like benzene, after Inpex was found to have underestimated emissions from its Darwin LNG project. Industry will fund the $2 million upgrades to the NT Environment Protection Authority's monitoring capacity.
Korean AI chip firm DeepX has signed a three-year global mass production cooperation agreement with AAEON, an industrial computing affiliate of Asus Group. The deal aims to integrate DeepX's NPUs into AAEON's industrial computing platforms for mass production and market expansion.
Russia's Rostec has introduced ShokinGPT, an industrial AI platform designed to automate document processing and data analysis. The system operates offline within enterprise environments and is currently being utilized by the Istok research enterprise.
Siemens, Europe's largest engineering firm, is threatening to shift AI investments to the US and China, citing restrictive EU regulations. CEO Roland Busch argues that the EU's AI and Data Acts unfairly burden industrial AI with consumer-level oversight. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also supports revising the framework, calling current rules overly restrictive.
Yang Zhilin, founder of fast-rising start-up Moonshot AI, has become the latest artificial intelligence entrepreneur to meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang, as Beijing steps up its push to accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing. The 32-year-old was among a select group of business leaders and experts invited to a high-level symposium on Friday, where participants offered views on China’s economic resilience and future growth drivers. Li acknowledged that the external environment had...
