Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, and physical AI company Sereact announced an official partnership on October 21, 2026, aimed at accelerating industrial AI deployments across retail, logistics and manufacturing. Under the partnership, announced in Berlin, Sereact’s physical AI platform, Cortex, runs robot arms from Universal Robots, giving retailers and…
NVIDIA on October 21, 2026 announced plans with a group of supply chain partners to expand global manufacturing capacity, in a release datelined GTC Berlin, to meet growing demand for its accelerated computing and full-stack AI factory platform. The partners named in the NVIDIA announcement are Amkor Technology, IBIDEN, King Yuan Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Siliconware…
NVIDIA on October 21, 2026, expanded its Nemotron Retriever collection with new open, commercially available models for embedding, reranking, and document extraction: Nemotron 3.5 Embed in 8B BF16, 1B BF16, and 1B NVFP4 variants, Nemotron 3.5 Rerank 8B BF16, and Nemotron 3.5 Parse at 631 million parameters. In an NVIDIA-authored announcement published on Hugging Face,…
NVIDIA and Google Cloud announced on October 21, 2026, at GTC Berlin that the first live A5X instances powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 are running with an initial customer, with general availability planned for November 2026 and expanded availability in Europe also planned. A5X Instances and Scale Plans The A5X instances pair NVIDIA Vera…
Rockwell Automation on October 21, 2026 announced the introduction of FactoryTalk Conductor, an AI-native orchestration platform designed to coordinate AI-powered work across the industrial automation lifecycle. The software will make its public debut at Automation Fair 2026 in Boston, where attendees will receive a first look ahead of commercial availability planned for the first quarter…
NVIDIA introduced DSX POD on October 21, 2026, at GTC Berlin, a reference design for complete Vera Rubin AI factories that partners build inside modular containers and that are integrated and validated before delivery. The company said the factory-built units reduce deployment time at a prepared site from six months to as little as 14…
NVIDIA announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture on October 21, 2026, at GTC Berlin, a full-stack design for building, containing, observing and enforcing safe AI agents across enterprise infrastructure and edge systems. The architecture is available now. The architecture builds on NVIDIA’s open-source OpenShell secure runtime software, extending it into industrial-scale infrastructure for agent development and…
NVIDIA on October 21, 2026, announced an expansion of its family of open models spanning language, robotics, biology and quantum computing, a portfolio the company is positioning around Europe’s sovereign intelligence. According to NVIDIA, the open models give organizations a foundation they can customize with local data and deploy on infrastructure they control, allowing developers,…
NVIDIA announced on October 21, 2026, at GTC Berlin that global telecom operators are adding NVIDIA accelerated computing to centralized data centers, metro sites and cell sites, and that T-Mobile has completed what the company described as the world’s first AI-RAN call on a live commercial network. “Telecom networks were built to carry the world’s…
NVIDIA on October 21, 2026, announced a set of healthcare and life sciences collaborations at GTC Berlin, led by the debut of RFD4-Proteina, an open protein-design model developed with the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design, and a new adaptive radiotherapy collaboration with Siemens Healthineers. NVIDIA framed the announcements around two challenges facing the field:…