AI & Enterprise

Hitachi considers sale of storage business as part of restructuring

Japan's Hitachi is considering selling its storage business, with a possible deal value of up to 200 billion yen, Bloomberg reported, citing multiple sources. Hitachi has not issued an official statement. The sale is being reviewed as part of a companywide restructuring of assets and an effort to exit low-profit operations. The assets include two subsidiaries in Japan and the United States, including wholly owned Hitachi Vantara.

AI & Enterprise

Evolving physical AI takes aim at high-end engineering, retools design work

Pascal Daloz (파스칼 달로즈), CEO of Dassault Systemes, says physical AI for industrial sites must support understanding of causes and effects, reasoning and industrial context. He presents an Industry World Model and virtual companions as the answer. He says the companions go beyond chatbots, enabling natural-language design, error analysis and simulation under governance. Dassault previewed Aura, Leo and Marie, with Leo and Marie slated for official launch in the first half.