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CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital fund of Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2015, CloudNC operates from headquarters in London and an active production facility in Chelmsford.

Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral's software suite - including its flagship Mistral Large model - into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised models for intelligence-driven factory infrastructure.

Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries - spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport - account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s.

Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola's Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across Malaysia.

YouTube was the most frequently cited website in Google AI Overviews across a panel of vitamin and supplement searches, according to new research. The video platform appeared in 186 of 350 AI-generated answers, or 53.1%, making it the only website cited in more than half of the answers collected. Searcherries followed 50 searches daily from August 30 to September 5, 2026. The questions came from Google Autocomplete and covered topics including hair growth, energy, sleep, anxiety and weight loss.

Google's newest AI weather forecasting model predicts wind speed at 100 metres above the ground, roughly the height of a modern wind turbine. It also forecasts cloud cover and how much sunlight reaches the surface, and it updates every hour. Energy traders, grid operators and wind and solar developers already pay other companies for that data. The introduction of WeatherNext 3 now puts Google in their market. Google DeepMind and Google Research released the model on September 3.

MG Ship has introduced an AI route optimisation and carrier selection module as logistics deployments demonstrate rapid cost and time returns. The technical module targets global retailers and commercial shippers, pairing automated routing algorithms with carrier recommendation systems across international trade corridors.

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining agentic AI applications in cybersecurity and fraud detection.

Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner's romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained after quality screening removed 441.

OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered. Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel carriers, and other delivery modes, then selects the lowest-cost option that meets the required service level, according to OneRail.