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Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-raids-apple-hardware-ta…

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners
As OpenAI’s plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent from Silicon Valley’s most successful device maker: Apple. In recent months, the startup behind ChatGPT has been raiding the ranks of Apple’s design, ...

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Toward General Physical Intelligence for Resilient Agile Manufacturing Automation
Sandeep Kanta, Mehrdad Tavassoli, Varun Teja Chirkuri, Venkata Akhil Kumar, Santhi Bharath Punati, Praveen Damacharla, Sunny Katyara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11960

Toward General Physical Intelligence for Resilient Agile Manufacturing Automation
Agile and human-centric manufacturing stipulates resilient robotic solutions capable of contextual reasoning and safe interaction in unstructured environments. Foundation models particularly the Vision Language Action (VLA) models have emerged to fuse multimodal perception, reasoning and physically grounded action across varied embodiments into unified representation, termed as General Physical Intelligence (GPI). While GPI has already been described in the literature but its practical applicat…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

@… A take on the sincerity of Sam Altman (in reference to ATP #640).
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/this-is-the-gentle-singularity

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Chip design software maker Cadence agrees to acquire Stockholm-based Hexagon's design and simulation software business for ~$3.18B in cash and stock (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/cad

Cadence Design Systems to spend $3.2B on Hexagon’s simulations tech
The acquisition would bolster the industrial software maker’s position in the growing structural analysis market used widely by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and other suppliers.

Keychain, which makes AI-powered software to help manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/cpg-startup-keychain-snags-…

CPG startup Keychain snags $30M to build in India, grow in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Keychain doesn't have a single customer in India — but the team helping it scale across North America and beyond is entirely based in Gurugram, a suburb of New Delhi.

Shein launches Xcelerator, a service granting fashion brands access to its fast-fashion manufacturing network in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/shein-opens-its-supply-network-to-fashion-…