#FactOries

The 2026 Iran war has driven global factory input costs to four-year highs, snarled logistics through the Strait of Hormuz, and triggered shortages in aluminium, helium, and fertilizers. European plants face suppressed demand and 30% surcharges while U.S.…

AI factories are token factories, converting power into intelligence in real time. And as agentic AI scales and autonomous, always-on special agents are deployed in the enterprise, performance per watt and cost per token become the economics that matter.

From The Register: Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files

The Intelligence Revolution: A Blueprint for the Generative Era We are in the midst of a fundamental shift in the global industrial landscape. In this new era, intelligence is the product. We’ve …

From Dev.to - webdev: Uncovering the Ancient Origins of Obesity: Neanderthals' Surprising "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago

I teach high school history, and as I was marking essays written on Google Docs today, I found that a few students had chucked in generated images as "evidence." One was meant to show factory children in the 1800s and it looked like a modern warehouse…

From ArchDaily Global: Memory of the Earth: 4 Adaptive Reuse Projects Transforming Ceramic Factories

Geopolitics, tariffs and environmental policy shifts have all played a part in pushing the industry’s accelerated metamorphosis.

EPFL researchers' kinematic intelligence equips robots with innate maps of joint limits and singularities, enabling safe skill transfer across hardware after one human demo. Factories stand to gain most from this math-driven, AI-free framework.

Despite more than a decade of hard-won progress, the work of ensuring safe factories is far from over.

Irene Yuan Sun, a consultant at McKinsey, explains why so many Chinese entrepreneurs are setting up factories in Africa. She describes what it's like inside these factories, who works there, what they're making—and how this emerging manufacturing sector…

Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many of his peers in the global automotive industry have been slower to reach: the world has…