How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford’s skunkworks.

Inside a bland-looking tilt-up concrete building in a new-ish business park near the Long Beach Airport, Ford is attempting ...

Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised $75 million in ...
techtimes

Perplexity Unveils ‘Computer,’ Autonomous Multi-Agent AI That Plans, Builds, Executes Complex Tasks

AI agents speed up tasks while allowing people to focus on other complicated tasks. Perplexity, for instance, has caught up in this game by unveiling its newest AI agent named "Computer." The ...
Reuters

Cadence introduces an AI agent to speed up computer chip design

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial intelligence "agent" to help firms like Nvidia speed up the complex process of designing computer chips ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Benchmark For AI-Aided Chip Design That Evaluates LLMs Across 3 Critical Tasks (UCSD, Columbia)

Researchers at UCSD and Columbia University published “ChipBench: A Next-Step Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Performance in AI-Aided Chip Design.” “While Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant ...
VentureBeat

Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same.

A Los Angeles-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a ...
techxplore

AI agent learns to create 3D objects from sketches using CAD software

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...
Forbes

Blueprints And Bot Brains: How AI Is Reimagining CAD For The Next Era Of Product Design

For decades, computer-aided design (CAD) has been the cornerstone of modern engineering. Yet much of the workflow still relies on manual repetition, rigid processes and human interpretation. Engineers ...
CEOWORLD magazine

How Computer-Aided Design Changed the World

Computer-aided design, better known as CAD, has evolved throughout the past several decades and changed the world for the better. CAD is a term used to define software that engineers, designers, ...
ArchDaily

The Plan and the Prompt: How AI Is Rewiring Design and Practice

A member of the Women's Royal Naval Service operates a blueprinting machine during World War I. Image © George P. Lewis via Wikipedia under Public Domain Beginning ...
Reuters

Cadence Design to buy Hexagon's design and engineering unit for $3.16 billion

Sept 4 (Reuters) - Cadence Design (CDNS.O), opens new tab said on Thursday it will buy the design and engineering business of Stockholm-based Hexagon AB (HEXAb.ST), opens new tab for 2.7 billion euros ...