This weekly update brings major news about AI agents changing how factories work around the world.

China is leading a big push to put AI into its factories. The Chinese government wants to use smart robots, digital twins, and AI inspection systems in car making, airplane building, and medicine production. Shanghai, one of China's biggest cities, made a three-year plan to speed up this change. The plan focuses on using AI to make factories work better and fix problems before they happen.

Intel teamed up with LG Innotek, a company that makes phone camera parts, to build a smart factory using AI. They use Intel's computer chips and special AI software called OpenVINO to check for broken parts automatically. This system can spot problems much faster than humans and costs less money than other options. The AI system streams data from the factory floor and uses different types of Intel processors to handle the work.

Foxconn, the company that makes iPhones and other electronics, had a big change in August 2025. For the first time ever, Foxconn made more money from AI data centers than from regular manufacturing. This shows how companies are shifting from making physical products to building the computer infrastructure that powers AI systems.

These changes show that AI agents are becoming the new workers in factories worldwide. Countries and companies are investing billions of dollars to make this happen, changing how things get made forever.