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IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, announced that Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC), a Finnish shipbuilding company delivering advanced vessels to customers worldwide, has selected IFS Cloud to modernize its digital foundation and strengthen control across its complex shipbuilding programs.  Based in Rauma, Finland, RMC is one of the few shipyards globally capable of building icebreakers and advanced naval vessels. The company is currently constructing two icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard and four Pohjanmaa-class multi-purpose corvettes for the Finnish Navy, among the most capable ships operating in the region. To support the icebreaker construction, as well as future vessels, RMC will deploy IFS Cloud to provide the digital backbone needed to standardize operations and strengthen oversight across its shipbuilding projects.  Shipbuilding projects involve thousands of components, multiple subcontractors, and continuous engineering changes over multi-year timelines. IFS Cloud will support RMC with a unified platform connecting project management, procurement, production, logistics,

Swinburne University of Technology and Siemens are undertaking first-of-its-kind research in Australia, into how quantum-enhanced timing can help future-proof the energy grid and increase grid stability. The study comes as Australia’s energy mix continues to shift toward renewables, distributed energy resources and inverter-dominated networks that place greater pressure on ensuring regular flow of energy. Speaking on this announcement at an event with some of the country’s leading grid planners and operators, Peter Halliday, CEO of Siemens Australia and New Zealand said, “Siemens has been helping Australia grow and keep the lights on for over 150 years. Leading technology and innovation only make a difference when combined with people and collaboration. This joint research with Swinburne University challenges the status-quo and helps build our electricity grid’s resilience with a much more complex energy mix.” The project brings together QuantX Labs’ advanced quantum clock and quantum-secured time transfer capabilities with Siemens’ globally renowned PSS®E technology, used

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and the DP World Tour announced that HCLTech will be the Official Digital Experience Partner of the Tour. Additionally, the DP World Tour – the premier men’s professional golf circuit of the European Tour group – has selected HCLTech to lead a multi-year program transforming the Tour’s global digital presence, with a strong focus on fan-centric innovation. HCLTech will design and deliver next-generation digital experience platforms – anchored by the DP World Tour website and app – to reimagine how fans worldwide discover, follow and engage with the sport of golf. In addition, HCLTech will serve as an Official Marketing Partner of the Tour, with Official Partner status at five DP World Tour tournaments each season, along with significant hospitality, on-site and digital activations. The DP World Tour, known as golf’s global tour with players from 46 nationalities, operates in an increasingly data-rich, real-time environment where fans expect seamless access to live action,

Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM) and engineering AI, announced that Blykalla, a Swedish developer of advanced nuclear technologies, has selected Aras Innovator® to support its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) development program. Managing complexity in highly regulated environments depends on digital continuity, engineering collaboration, and end-to-end traceability. Blykalla is developing lead-cooled fast reactors designed to deliver safe, scalable, and carbon-free baseload power, supporting global decarbonization efforts and the growing demand for reliable energy from AI infrastructure and clean industries. As the company advances its next-generation reactor technology, a strong digital foundation is critical to managing increasing engineering demands and long-term lifecycle data. “Developing advanced nuclear systems requires rigorous control over requirements, configuration, and change across the entire lifecycle,” said Michaela Casarella, Configuration Manager at Blykalla. “Aras Innovator provides the flexibility and visibility we need to manage this complexity while supporting our long-term vision for scalable SMR

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