Churchill Capital XI shareholders approved a $2.5B combination with Agility Robotics, which raised $465M and plans to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT starting Thursday. Agility cites Digit deployments at GXO, Toyota and Schaeffler, plus an Agco Hesston pilot next year, toward 100 customers by end of 2027. The US industrial humanoid bet now has a public ticker; watch whether warehouse hours turn into factory hours.
MUBADER, a multi-agent platform for triage, dispatch, follow-up and insights, won first place at the ADIPEC and ADNOC AI Agents in Energy hackathon by turning field operational reports into work orders, with humans keeping critical decisions. Aletihad names developers Saif Al Falasi and Sarah Ibrahim, and a TAQA Distribution team member posted the win on LinkedIn. This is a hackathon result, not an ADNOC production system, but it aims agents at ops paperwork rather than another reservoir model.
SAP is positioning agentic AI across trading-partner collaboration on SAP Business Network, which it says carried more than US$8T in commerce and more than 940M transactions in the 12 months ending Q3 2026. Its agents cover order confirmation, shipping notices and supply chain exception handling, with Joule agents planned for general availability in Q4 2026. The shift is agents working between companies, not only inside one ERP.
OpenAI's Grid Protectors program asks its future campuses to reduce load when the US grid is under strain. It is non-binding, and the model is OpenAI's existing 25-year Georgia Power deal for the 3.2 GW Effingham County campus, where the utility can curtail up to 1,000 MW at peak and OpenAI pays full grid costs. The open question is how often utilities actually get to call it.