The US and China start calling AI “SI,” X-Rite halts Gen1 eXact sales, Marusumi Paper heads for liquidation after mill sale — plus five more stories | BPJ News Morning Edition
Words, machines, and mills are being updated at the same time—and the shop floor’s “standards” and “supply chains” are quietly being rearranged.
The US and Chinese leaders have agreed to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence (SI),” and will launch a dialogue framework and a bilateral contact channel for SI incidents. On the manufacturing floor, welding is turning into agent-driven automation; on the print side, a generational shift in color measurement devices and a reshaping of paper supply are becoming concrete.
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A shift is surfacing in the US and China: calling AI “SI.” When words change, the ripple reaches the templates and update procedures of documents for audits, safety, export controls, and more.
At manufacturing trade shows, you can now see the moment automation moves from stage demos to “we’re getting ready to deploy”: reading drawings and welding, watching the molten pool and correcting on the fly.…
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