Xplore AI's new RWE-bench tested 11 AI models on 20 engineering tasks, including crankshaft design, DDR3 board routing and turbine vane CFD, each graded by a deterministic verifier with no human or AI judge. The top model, GPT-6 Astra, averaged a 37% pass rate. The hard design work is still mostly done by people.
Oil Co Intern posted a short video captioned 'Me and the boys using AI in the Oil and Gas industry' that drew about 497,000 views and 5,596 likes. It is a joke, and it reads as a mood check on how field crews see the AI pitch.
SAP unveiled Physical AI at TechEd, and at Holcim a maintenance plan in SAP Plant Maintenance now triggers inspections by quadruped robots and industrial drones of conveyor belts and kilns. Once the inspection runs, a maintenance notification is created back in SAP. Inspection is moving inside the maintenance workflow instead of beside it.
An analyst summary of Hubbell's third-quarter results says data center sales grew more than 80% organically, substation components more than 20%, and utility backlog rose more than $500 million this year. The grid hardware order book is where the AI build-out shows up in numbers.