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Accenture has made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Netomi, a leading customer experience AI platform company. As part of this investment, Accenture and Netomi are entering into a strategic partnership to help enterprises reinvent customer experience using agentic AI systems. This investment and partnership will further expand Accenture’s customer experience and service capabilities and embed Netomi’s agentic AI platform directly into existing technologies and customer touchpoints without operational disruption. As organizations face rising customer expectations and an increasing volume of support requests, the demand for smarter, more efficient service has become more critical than before. A recent Accenture report revealed that 87% of the respondents are likely to avoid a brand after just a single negative experience. Netomi’s platform is specifically designed to help organizations respond to customers with precision and speed, and free human agents to focus on complex, meaningful interactions. At the core of Netomi’s technology is its conversational AI platform with

The Capgemini Group reported Q1 2026 revenues of €5,943 million, up +7.0% at current exchange rates and +11.0% at constant exchange rates*. Aiman Ezzat, Chief Executive Officer of the Capgemini Group, said: “This quarter’s performance validates our cloud and AI strategy, delivering strong underlying growth, in line with Q4 2025 and outperforming most peers in the market. We secured major transformational deals and long-term commitments, including the five–year extension of our strategic partnership with McDonald’s. It underscores clients’ confidence in our ability to deliver complex, large–scale transformations that unlock revenue growth and create greater business value. Q1 delivered strong traction in Intelligent Operations, notably thanks to our WNS acquisition. We maintained a strong momentum in defense as well. We also remain focused on disciplined execution, including on the fit-for-growth initiatives.  We are uniquely positioned to capture large AI transformation projects, leveraging our deep business and technology capabilities to drive business outcomes from clients’ AI investments. We deepened partnerships with

Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, and Cytiva Opens in a new window - New Window, a Danaher company and a leader in the life sciences industry, are jointly launching the Figurate Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system designed to remove digital bottlenecks during biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Working across multiple instrument vendors and modalities, Figurate SCADA provides the connectivity needed to enable digital integration to advance modern bioprocessing. “Biopharma teams are under pressure to move more quickly, but their systems are often not built to keep up,” said Matt Weaver, vice president of global industry life sciences at Rockwell Automation. “This collaboration with Cytiva marks a pivotal step in our mission to democratize digital manufacturing, enabling biopharma innovators to deploy SCADA faster, smarter and more affordably.” Many biopharma teams juggle proprietary systems that cannot communicate with one another, creating operational silos, manual workarounds and data integrity

The Digital Twin Consortium® announced a liaison agreement with the National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP) to establish a technical collaboration to design, develop, and validate multi-agent digital twin systems for aviation. This collaboration integrates AMD edge HPC, Rowan University DEHub, and DTC composability frameworks to field on-premise AI intelligence for air traffic management, cybersecurity, and autonomy. The core engineering problem: aviation systems will require AI inference at the edge with deterministic latency and on-premise data sovereignty, yet must aggregate insights across enterprise and cloud infrastructure without compromising security. The architecture solves this through local LLM inference on AMD Ryzen AI NPU/GPU hardware for edge-to-cloud agent coordination, utilizing DTC’s dual Digital Twin and Agent CPT composability frameworks, with DEHub’s Pythia HPC supercomputer providing the physics-informed AI backbone for component-level digital twin validation. Application Domain Collaboration The convergence of conventional IFR/VFR traffic, eVTOL urban air mobility, high-density UAS operations, and integrated autonomy demands an Air Traffic Management (ATM)

Capgemini announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud, deepening its focus on embedded engineering to accelerate enterprise-scale adoption of Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise. Leveraging its industry, domain, and functional expertise, together with its AI-powered assets and digital and technology driven capabilities, Capgemini will establish a dedicated Google Cloud AI Enterprise Hub that pioneers a new class of agentic expertise of Outcome Deployed Engineers (ODE). Operating in dedicated pods deployed directly within client environments, these ODE teams will work alongside Google’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to design, build, and deploy AI agents around real enterprise workflows and business processes, ensuring solutions are production-ready from day one, committing to business outcomes. This strategic initiative reflects the growing demand to translate frontier AI into enterprise production-grade systems that operate securely, reliably, and at scale. To accelerate AI deployment into live operations rather than isolated pilots, Capgemini utilizes cross-functional teams that harness a

Trimble announced a specialized integration with Claude, the large language model and AI assistant from Anthropic, that makes it easier for Trimble® SketchUp® software users to create 3D models directly from conversational text or speech prompts. The powerful new capabilities are enabled by a SketchUp Connector model context protocol (MCP) service that allows Claude to interact directly with SketchUp (.skp) files. The connectivity enhances existing design workflows and expands access to 3D modeling for people at any skill level. Trimble SketchUp is a professional-grade 3D modeling software used widely in architecture, design, construction and other fields. This is the first Connector created by Trimble that connects the SketchUp design environment with other tools via the MCP framework. Conversational 3D modelingThe SketchUp Connector integration with Claude lets users create 3D geometry, such as building massing models, landscapes or furniture by simply describing what they want. Plain-language inputs alongside reference images, sketches, photos, floor plans and dimensions

Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, launched TeSys™ Tera , a next-generation intelligent motor management system designed for demanding industrial environments. Built on a century of motor management expertise, TeSys Tera unifies protection, control and monitoring to reduce equipment failures, lower energy costs and extend asset life across industries including water and wastewater, metal, mineral and mining, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and oil and gas. The company introduced the system at Texas Water 2026, the largest regional water conference in the United States. Among the sectors TeSys Tera serves, water faces particular urgency: the U.S. loses an estimated 7 billion gallons of treated water every day , averages 260,000 water main breaks per year, and one-third of the sector’s field workforce is expected to retire within the next decade. Across industrial environments, motors account for nearly 70% of all electricity consumed in industry, making them critical to operations such as pumping, conveying, compressing and processing. When failures

PTC announced the release of Windchill AI Assistant, a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability built in its Windchill® product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. This new capability introduces generative AI into Windchill via a natural language chat interface, making it easier for users to find, understand, and work with critical product information already stored in the platform, reducing time spent searching and enabling increases in team productivity. As product data complexity continues to grow, engineering and manufacturing teams often struggle to locate specific information across large sets of documents. Windchill AI Assistant addresses this challenge by enabling users to ask questions in plain language and receive contextual answers or summaries based on the content of Windchill documents. It helps users quickly review lengthy files, surface relevant details, and access insights embedded in years of engineering tests, reviews, and technical documentation that may not be easily found through traditional reports or standard navigation. All responses

MathWorks announced Release 2026a (R2026a) of the MATLAB® and Simulink® product families, introducing new AI capabilities for embedded systems development. R2026a introduces Simulink® Copilot to support Model-Based Design and Polyspace® Copilot to improve embedded software code analysis, helping engineering teams improve productivity while maintaining rigor, traceability, and repeatability in their designs. The release also includes additional updates that help engineers design faster, fix issues earlier, and move more efficiently from development, through verification, to production.  MathWorks is advancing AI for engineering in two complementary ways. First, the company is embedding copilots directly into the environments engineering teams are already using, such as MATLAB Copilot, Simulink Copilot, and Polyspace Copilot. Second, MathWorks integrates MATLAB and Simulink functionality into agentic workflows through MATLAB MCP Core Server and MATLAB Agentic Toolkit. For engineering executives and managers, the value is straightforward: teams can understand designs faster, address software issues earlier, and apply development and verification workflows more consistently.   “Engineering teams now have access to capabilities enabled by generative AI, and leaders need confidence that these translate into tangible engineering and business benefits,” said Avinash Nehemiah, Head of Product Management and Marketing, Design Automation at MathWorks. “In engineering design and software verification, productivity improvements cannot come

LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, announced the launch of its BlueVerse Studio in Bengaluru, a hub designed to accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI adoption for clients and deliver measurable business outcomes. LTM continues to launch more studios globally to drive AI innovation and also has studios in London and Mumbai. As part of the company’s ongoing investment in bringing innovation closer to clients, the BlueVerse Studio was created to help clients scale AI solutions from experiments to practical applications while ensuring trust and control. It unites LTM’s strongest AI capabilities, including BlueVerse CraftStudio, physical AI showcases, and industry-centric AI offerings, within one ecosystem along with: Multiple BlueVerse-certified consulting and delivery professionals currently support enterprise-grade AI solutions. These certifications provide expertise in developing intelligent agents and managing unified AI platforms, ensuring secure and impactful business outcomes.  A constantly growing number of digital employees, spanning an expanding range of roles BlueVerse research scientists