ADNOC signed a multi-year deal to run OpenAI Frontier on G42's UAE infrastructure, the first energy company to deploy it. Named uses are field master planning in hours instead of months and agents that value every barrel across production, refining, logistics and trading. ADNOC says human experts keep oversight, which is the line to watch.
Reuters reports Chinese embodied-AI firms raised about $13B across 322 deals in the first half of 2026. CATL says Spirit AI robots insert flexible wires in battery-pack testing at over 99% success, and DexForce is readying some factory tasks in 6 to 8 hours. The factory floor is where this money is now being judged.
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BMW's Automated Driving In-Plant system, built with Embotech, has moved 1 million new cars at four UK and German sites. It runs about 3,500 moves a day at over 99.5% availability. Plant logistics automation at real scale, with an uptime number.
SK Ecoplant had AI study each employee's work data to build role-specific agents. The first ones handle report and record work at semiconductor plant and AI data center job sites. The company has trained 318 staff as in-house AI experts.