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Design Tech journalist, co-founder of DEVELOP3D, AECMagazine, D3DLIVE. Based in the Brecon Beacons. I Know Words, I Have The Best Words. Brexit was moronic
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Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn

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Autodesk has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MaintainX, a maintenance and operations software provider, in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $3.6 billion. It is the largest acquisition in Autodesk’s history. The deal is part of Autodesk’s broader effort to extend its platform beyond design and construction into the operational lifecycle of built assets and manufactured products.
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Agentic BIM’s missing infrastructure

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In our March/April 2026 cover story, the Agentic future of BIM, I argued that the shift from modelling to execution will require BIM platforms to manage delegated authority, not just geometry. Since then, a Google DeepMind paper, entitled ‘Intelligent AI Delegation’ has made that argument uncomfortably specific. To be clear, the paper doesn’t mention the AEC industry. Instead, it focuses on a higher level, and in particular, on how AI might be trusted to solve problems and provide reliable outputs.
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Palantir in AEC

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For two decades the AEC software industry has operated on a simple assumption, that control of geometry equals control of the project. Vendors have competed on modelling environments, coordination workflows, and document production, confident that whoever owns the model anchors the stack. That assumption is now under pressure. Palantir Technologies is set to test it, not as a new authoring tool or a better common data environment, but as something structurally different.
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