October 2026

Continuous close, in which a company’s books are closed every day instead of weeks after month-end, could change how accounting firms serve clients. As artificial intelligence shrinks the lag between a transaction and the advice built on it, year-end cleanup can become a running conversation. Software makers are retooling their products around the firms that […]

We start this week with Jason and Joseph’s article about leaked audio from a private police conference. In that audio, Flock’s CEO made all sorts of wild claims about the backlash to his company not being real, and his wife’s advice to never apologize. After the break, Sam tells us why former Yahoo CEO Marrisa

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees, including Copilot and Windows staff. Here’s what the workforce changes could mean for enterprise IT teams. The post Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot appeared first on TechRepublic.

Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after it disclosed that its AI search features are raking in less money than its traditional search ad model. The steep

Meta’s Waddle World AI pet app brings journaling to the Philippines. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what its privacy disclosures reveal. The post Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That Journals About Your Day appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon’s five new Alexa devices add cameras, sleep sensing, and smart-home features. Compare prices, Alexa+ requirements, compatibility, and privacy controls. The post Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially released in preview three weeks ago. With 1 trillion parameters and 52 billion active parameters, ML4 is natively multimodal and has received three additional

Proton plans to reassess employees’ AI skills in interviews that could affect their jobs, raising questions about AI adoption and workforce evaluations. The post Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in Balance appeared first on TechRepublic.

An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the

As concerns grow over AI’s impact on software engineering jobs, Amazon has issued a memo outlining what it expects from its engineers as AI reshapes software development. While acknowledging AI’s capabilities in software engineering and its long-term prospects, Amazon said, “It is difficult to define, in a way that will stand the test of time,