[6/30 17:00] Schneider Electric to buy industrial AI firm Cognite for $3.1B / AWS invests $1B in forward-deployed AI engineers

AI News Flash for June 30, 2026 at 17:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Schneider Electric to buy industrial AI firm Cognite for $3.1B https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-30/schneider-to-buy-industrial-ai-firm-cognite-for-3-1-billion 2. AWS invests $1B in forward-deployed AI engineers https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-1-billion-forward-deployed-ai-engineers 3. Cleveland Fed's Hammack warns AI is fueling inflation https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/cleveland-fed-president-hammack-sees-ai-fueling-inflation-says-rate-hikes-may-be-necessary.html 4. Virginia Tech's RNAbpFlow beats AlphaFold 3 at RNA shape prediction https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/precision-medicine/ai-tool-outperforms-google-rival-at-3d-rna-shape-prediction/