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/C O R R E C T I O N — Applied Intuition, Inc./

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2 months ago

May 2, 2026

In the news release, Applied Intuition Collaborates with Heidelberg Materials to Advance Innovation in Quarry Operations with Autonomous Haulage Fleets, issued 30-Apr-2026 by Applied Intuition, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end:

Applied Intuition Collaborates with Heidelberg Materials to Advance Innovation in Quarry Operations with Autonomous Haulage Fleets

Deployment brings intelligent, vehicle-based autonomy to Australia, establishing a new operating model for construction and mining environments.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2026 /CNW/ — Applied Intuition, Inc., a leader in physical AI, today announced its collaboration with Heidelberg Materials, one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of building materials and solutions, to deploy autonomous haulage systems for Heidelberg Materials’ quarry operations, starting at a site in Australia.

Applied Intuition will provide its Self-Driving System (SDS) for Construction to support autonomous haulage operations within Heidelberg Materials’ fleet of construction and mining vehicles in Australia. The deployment marks the next real-world application of Applied Intuition’s autonomy platform in industrial environments. Upon successful completion, it will support the expansion of autonomous operations within Heidelberg Materials’ broader Australian network.

The collaboration also challenges the standard industry model. While autonomy solutions traditionally target the largest quarry sites, this system is designed for smaller operations, including those running just two 40-ton trucks, making it deployable across quarry sites of varying size worldwide.

“No two quarry or construction sites operate the same way, with different layouts, constraints and economics,” said Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. “We’ve built our platform to adapt to that reality. This partnership shows we can take the same core system used in large mining operations and apply it to smaller, infrastructure-constrained quarry sites, scaling it across hundreds of unique locations.”

For Heidelberg Materials, the partnership is aimed at enhancing safety and operational performance. It also reflects the need for an autonomy solution that can operate at large sites and smaller ones too, whereas traditional autonomous haulage systems are often too infrastructure-heavy or costly to scale. For Applied Intuition, it serves as a proof point that its autonomy platform is designed not just for one-off deployments, but for global scale across construction, quarry and mining environments of any size.

Applied Intuition’s system runs directly on the vehicle, with integrated perception, decision-making and safety systems onboard, enabling reliable operation without constant connectivity or heavy site infrastructure.

The collaboration builds on Applied Intuition’s growing presence in construction and mining autonomy and reinforces its broader physical AI strategy. The same core platform has already been deployed in other industries, including trucking and defense, with learnings from each domain contributing to continuous system improvements. Applied Intuition’s SDS platform strategy also enables the company to bring technologies proven in other domains into construction and mining, helping accelerate development and deployment.

Through this project, Applied Intuition demonstrates the range of its autonomy platform, from some of the largest mining trucks in the world to smaller quarry vehicles operating in constrained, lower-infrastructure environments. Together, these deployments highlight the company’s approach to building scalable autonomy for construction and mining from the ground up.

To learn more about how Applied Intuition is building the future of construction autonomy, visit applied.co.

About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Gothenburg, Sweden; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.

Correction: An earlier version of this release incorrectly stated the location of the site noted in the first paragraph.

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Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

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49 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Monnit announced new NIST Standard and Low Temperature and Humidity Detachable Leads for compatible ALTA® Sensor Bases designed to simplify sensor recertification, reduce downtime, and support continuous compliance monitoring.

“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between maintaining compliance and operational continuity,” said Brad Walters, Founder and CEO of Monnit. “Our detachable lead architecture allows customers to hot-swap certified leads in minutes while preserving traceability and keeping trusted monitoring programs running.”

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Rather than removing and shipping an entire sensor for recertification, customers can disconnect only the lead, connect a certified replacement, and send the original lead for recalibration. This approach is ideal for pharmaceuticals, healthcare facilities, laboratories, food storage operations, manufacturing environments, and other applications that require calibration records.

In addition to these hot-swappable, removable leads or cables with probes, we offer short Monnit Standard Temperature and Humidity Detachable Non-Leaded Probes that you can connect to compatible sensor bases.

Each NIST Detachable Lead or Probe connects to compatible ALTA Industrial and Enterprise Sensor Bases via sealed, keyed M8 6-pin connectors designed for field installation. Embedded memory within the lead stores unique lead and sensor identification, calibration data, certification information, and traceability records.

Key features and benefits include:

Hot-swappable lead replacement that minimizes downtime and monitoring interruptionsNIST-traceable calibration support and ISO 17025-accredited lab certificationSupport for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 workflows and audit programsAutomatic synchronization of calibration information with iMonnit® SoftwareLogging of lead connection and disconnection events in iMonnitHot-swapping capability while powered on or off for easier servicing

Monnit and its accredited lab partner, Sensor Calibrations, provide 25-month certificates for NIST Detachable Standard Temperature Leads and 13-month certificates for NIST Detachable Low Temperature and Humidity Leads.

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

About Monnit Corporation
The origin story of the Internet of Things (IoT) begins with Monnit. Before our inception in 2010, we were already at the forefront of embedding technology into machines and devices to enable them to talk and deliver valuable data to business leaders. Monnit Remote Monitoring Solutions for nearly any industry use case have delivered 72B+ data points in 130+ countries for 90K+ customers. Monnit’s 80+ long-range IoT sensors remotely monitor many conditions such as temperature, light, humidity, water, vibration, pressure, and more. You can analyze data using iMonnit cloud software and get alerts via email, text, push notification, or call when our sensors detect a change you should know.

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Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

Published

49 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Key features and benefits include:

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

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deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI

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49 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems in sovereign, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments.

As part of the collaboration, deepset will leverage the Haystack Enterprise Platform, deepset’s platform for building, orchestrating, and governing AI agents and applications, and HPE’s AI ecosystem and infrastructure portfolio to help organizations rapidly identify and operationalize high-value AI use cases while reducing deployment complexity and risk. This enables customers to access AI-ready infrastructure, strategic guidance, and accelerated pilot execution to address their most challenging AI adoption and operationalization needs.

Together, the companies enable organizations to deploy AI agents, multi-agent systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on self-hosted, sovereign, and air-gapped infrastructure while maintaining full ownership over sensitive and classified data, models, and AI operations.

Customers can leverage the joint architecture to operationalize governed AI applications faster while maintaining the security, compliance, and deployment flexibility required for sovereign and mission-critical environments.

The HPE Unleash AI partner program is a curated ecosystem, combining ISV solutions that go through comprehensive validation testing with engineered HPE AI systems, including HPE Private Cloud AI and the broader HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions, to deliver the performance, security, and scalability enterprises need for production AI. By joining the program, deepset expands access to governed AI platform capabilities designed for organizations operating in highly regulated environments, including public sector, defense, cybersecurity, and enterprise industries.

The Haystack Enterprise Platform enables organizations to:

Build and govern AI agents, multi-agent systems, and RAG applicationsDeploy AI on self-hosted, private cloud, and air-gapped infrastructureOrchestrate modular AI pipelines across models, databases, and enterprise systemsEnforce governance, auditability, and lifecycle management for production AISupport sovereign AI initiatives aligned with European and national security requirements

The collaboration builds on deepset’s experience supporting sovereign AI initiatives with organizations including the European Commission, the German Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), and other government, defense, and enterprise organizations deploying sovereign AI systems under strict governance and security requirements.

“With agentic AI moving into operational deployment, organizations need infrastructure and AI platforms they can control and trust,” said Milos Rusic, CEO and co-founder of deepset. “The challenge is getting agentic systems into production while maintaining control over infrastructure, governance, and sensitive data. Together with HPE, we’re helping customers deploy governed AI systems faster across highly regulated and mission-critical environments.”

Use cases supported through the joint architecture include:

Sovereign AI platform for public sector & regulated industry institutionsSovereign AI intelligence and decision-support systems for classified operationsCybersecurity investigation and threat analysisAI agents for technology, manufacturing, research, legal, and financial workflows

“The Unleash AI program is designed to help organizations deploy AI solutions faster and with greater operational confidence,” said Robin Braun, Vice President of AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloud, HPE. “Together, HPE and deepset are delivering secure, governed AI solutions that combine enterprise-grade infrastructure with flexible and governed AI agent capabilities to help customers operationalize AI across hybrid, sovereign, and classified environments.”

For more information, visit https://www.deepset.ai

About deepset

deepset is the company behind Haystack, the leading open-source framework and platform for building production-grade AI applications and agentic systems. deepset enables enterprises and public sector organizations to develop, deploy, and govern flexible AI applications powered by their choice of large language models, enterprise data, infrastructure, and governance policies across cloud, hybrid, and sovereign environments.

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