
Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes
A Japanese cooling tower maker is using AI search to unlock 70 years of engineering drawings, a modest story that shows what useful industrial AI actually looks like.
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A Japanese cooling tower maker is using AI search to unlock 70 years of engineering drawings, a modest story that shows what useful industrial AI actually looks like.

The agent story out of Korea this weekend is about containment: Hyundai and AIM Intelligence are testing sandboxes and policy controls before letting agents touch real enterprise systems.

Anthropic's Personal Finance connects Claude to banks and cards via Plaid for read-only spending answers — no ads, no Anthropic loan products, and chats in the hub kept out of training.

NVIDIA is pitching a disciplined loop for fixing agents: read the traces, write a test for the failure, change the harness, and prove it on tasks the fixer never saw.

Uber says third-party AI agents booked just four rides and about 500 food orders last quarter — a rounding error that still tells us how the disintermediation fight will go.

Anthropic is telling Claude Code to stop rebuilding other people's games, and while it's a defensible line, two sentences in a system prompt can't settle what courts still argue about.

NVIDIA's Cosmos update makes simulated driving, robot and even surgical worlds easier to generate, which is useful for testing, provided nobody mistakes a convincing simulation for proof of safety.

NVIDIA is open-sourcing a shared way to describe Kubernetes AI workloads, a small-sounding fix to a costly problem that also deepens its reach into the operations layer.
NVIDIA is betting that the hard part of data agents isn't writing SQL, it's knowing what the numbers mean, and it has open-sourced the layer that's supposed to hold that meaning.
Factory is betting the wrapper matters as much as the model. Droid 1.0 lets the agent write a script that calls its tools, and the efficiency claims are big.

A storage diagnostics tool is not glamorous, but NVIDIA's gds-diag shows a healthy pattern: deterministic checks underneath, an optional agent on top, and nothing changed without a human saying so.

Google is inviting any developer to plug into Gemini and Search, and it looks a lot like the early days of SEO, rebuilt for agents.