October 2026

Cohere said on October 26 that Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a test file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation. The company said its isolated testing environment blocked the request because it had no route to the internet. The incident occurred when the model was asked to write […]

As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

Ask a frontier AI agent to answer one business question across two enterprise databases, and the odds look worse than a coin flip. That result lands at an awkward moment, given that nearly every data platform now ships an agent and every executive wants one answering questions by Friday. For data scientists, the timing could

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

Digit humanoid robots to expand to additional GXO sites in 2027, building on industry-first Robots-as-a-Service agreement GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO), the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, and Agility Robotics, a leading humanoid robotics and physical AI company, today announced an expansion of their pioneering partnership to advance humanoid automation in logistics with deployments

Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of AI-driven disinformation ahead of November’s US midterm elections, according to experts, who warn many posts are likely “slipping through the cracks”. As tens of millions of Americans prepare to

New Regulatory Monitoring feature combines AI with expert validation to deliver continuous, entity-level assessments of active and proposed mandatory regulations. Today, Datamaran announced the general availability of Applicability Assessment, a new feature of its Regulatory Monitoring platform. For organizations operating across multiple countries, knowing which regulations apply is still largely a manual process of checking

 Proposed acquisition brings offer management, disclosure automation and marketing compliance technology into Zafin’s expanding portfolio of AI-powered platforms for regulated institutions Zafin, the AI platform company for regulated institutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Naehas, a provider of offer management, disclosure automation and marketing compliance technology serving many leading financial institutions

SAP SE today announced a set of artificial intelligence innovations at its annual TechEd conference for developers, enhancing its Joule assistant solutions and Business AI Platform, including tabular data foundation models. New capabilities in Joule Work will help AI agents become more efficient and interoperate with open protocols. In this case, the Model Context Protocol

Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, today announced it will demonstrate its Mediaflux® DAMS digital asset management system for the research industry at eResearch Australasia, October 26-30, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia at Booth 04-CE. Arcitecta will be co-located with its strategic partners Spectra Logic and DDN, showcasing world-class research data management architectures. Mediaflux