This weekly update covers major advances in how AI agents are changing manufacturing around the world. An AI agent is a smart computer system that can make decisions and complete tasks on its own, without a person telling it exactly what to do each time.

Accenture, a big technology company, introduced a new tool called Physical AI Orchestrator on October 28th. This tool uses AI agents to help factories work better. It creates a digital copy of a real factory and lets the AI agents control what happens in the actual factory. Companies in the United States, and in industries like electronics and medicine, are already using this tool to save money and work more efficiently.

On the same day, HPE announced new secure AI factories made with NVIDIA, a computer chip company. These factories help governments and businesses build AI systems safely while protecting their private information. Nearly 60 percent of companies struggle with messy, unorganized AI plans, and these new factories help fix that problem.

The biggest news came from Samsung Electronics in South Korea and NVIDIA, who announced they are building an enormous AI factory together. This factory will have over 50,000 powerful computers running AI systems. It will help Samsung make computer chips faster and smarter using artificial intelligence.

Around the world, major manufacturers like Foxconn from Taiwan and Caterpillar from the United States are using AI technology to design better products and run their factories more smoothly. About 51 percent of factories already use AI, and 60 percent plan to add it by 2027. The manufacturing industry expects to need 3.8 million new workers by 2033, but these workers will need to know how to work with AI and robots.