Bentley Systems, Incorporated, Infotech, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing transportation departments in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, announced an initiative to support digital delivery initiatives for departments of transportation.

Rockwell Automation announced that is has it completed its acquisition of Clearpath Robotics, an Ontario, Canada-based supplier of autonomous robotics, including autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)

BitFlow, Inc., a supplier of frame grabber technology for the machine vision industry, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Advantech in an all-cash transaction representing a 100% equity stake in the company.

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Airkit.ai, a creator of AI powered customer service applications and experiences.

Rockwell Automation announced a partnership with Everactive, a Santa Clara, CA-based supplier of wireless and batteryless condition-monitoring solutions to Increase Customer Productivity and Sustainability for industrial customers

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that they have initiated a feasibility study to increase energy and resource efficiency across industries in the Rotterdam industrial cluster to contribute to ambitious regional decarbonization goals.

Amazon and Anthropic announced a strategic collaboration that will advance generative AI by bringing together their respective technology and expertise in safer generative artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of Anthropic’s future foundation models and make them widely accessible to AWS customers.

Cisco and Splunk, the cybersecurity and observability provider, announced a definitive agreement under which Cisco intends to acquire Splunk to Help Move Organizations to Threat Detection and Prevention

IOTech, the open edge computing provider, announced a new partnership with Advantech, a provider of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and automation technology, to deliver advanced edge data processing solutions for smart manufacturing and industrial automation.