October 2026

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth’s recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast store of magma that appears to have accumulated since the ancient catastrophe. The discovery could help explain how supervolcanoes like […]

Infosys’ AI revenue grew 29% sequentially in the September quarter, accounting for 10.5% of total revenue, even as the company cut its full-year FY27 revenue growth guidance to 1%-2% in constant currency from 1.5%-3%. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $5.145 billion, up 1.5% year on year and 1.2% sequentially in constant-currency terms. Operating margin

New XTAI Release Gives Organizations a Vendor-Agnostic Control Plane to Manage, Govern, and Optimize Enterprise-Scale AI XTIUM, a global AI-Native MSP, today announced the latest release of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), the next major milestone in the evolution of its award-winning AI Service Platform. The release introduces XTAI Orchestrator, a single governance platform for all

Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd., a global provider of business transformation solutions built on Microsoft technologies, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organizations accelerate data modernization and AI readiness through the integration of NVIDIA cuDF toolkit for accelerated structured data processing, with the Hitachi Solutions Unified Data Accelerator (HUDA). The collaboration combines Hitachi Solutions’ enterprise

MCP Server connection provides mutual customers with additional ways to work with firm knowledge and governed iManage content directly within Legora Legora, the agentic operating system for legal work, and iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced plans to connect Legora with the iManage MCP Server. The connection will give mutual customers

LTM, an IT services and consulting company, has launched its BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai to help enterprises develop and validate AI solutions for industrial operations and intelligent products. According to LTM, the lab will let clients, technology partners, and its teams develop, simulate, and validate solutions before deployment. The company said the facility

Chariot, a frontier AI research lab, launched Chariot-1-ASR Realtime on October 22, a speech recognition model that converts spoken words into text while people are still talking. The company said the model outperformed every streaming and batch transcription system it tested across 10 Indian languages. The model supports Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,

We’re witnessing a ‘ChatGPT’ moment for AI agents. They’re no longer the artisanal workflows that only AI-savvy folks could assemble.  Thanks to Muse, Instinct, and a growing number of agents which need zero setup, everyone can simply chat away to get work done. This also puts the CPU back in the spotlight after years of

An old idea springs anew as a chorus of influential voices predicts that AI may trigger crises of vast magnitude In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed that a crisis can propel once-fringe ideas into the political mainstream. “Only a crisis – actual or perceived –

Meta expects capital expenditure of $135-145 billion in 2026 as it continues investing in AI infrastructure and developing new products, according to its third-quarter financial results released on October 21.  The company says its AI investments are already generating additional advertising revenue through stronger engagement, improved recommendations, and more efficient monetisation. Meta expects these investments