October 2026

Google is bringing conversational Gemini navigation to Apple CarPlay, allowing drivers to ask multi-step questions about routes and destinations, but Personal Intelligence remains unconfirmed. The post Gemini Comes to Google Maps on Apple CarPlay: What Works appeared first on TechRepublic.

October is revealing cybersecurity chaos, for real. In 24 hours, three major security incidents emerged: eMudhra’s compromised certificate private keys, the State Bank of India’s customer data breach, and AI-assisted discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used by roughly 70% of websites. Calif, a security research firm working with OpenAI, first

Two weeks after reaching #1 on BEAM, the largest public memory benchmark, past.dev reports the highest score yet on DolphinBench, Mem0’s benchmark for AI agents that take real actions. AI agents are becoming part of our daily lives and work. But as conversations pile up and facts keep changing, most AI agents start acting on

Equating to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff, job cuts come as bank announces jump in quarterly profits Business live – latest updates Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs as part of wider cost-cutting plans that its bosses say are being driven by advances in AI. The job cuts will mean losing about

Azim Premji’s investment firm Premji Invest, along with Norwest and Lok Capital, plans to invest up to ₹1,000 crore in Vegafin Capital to build an artificial intelligence-led lending platform for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), according to a Bloomberg report published on October 21. Vegafin, founded by former ICICI Bank executive Bijith Bhaskar, has

Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on October 21, introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that monitors work, prioritises tasks and carries out business activities in the background. Access is initially limited to subscribers in the US on Claude Pro and Max plans through a waitlist, the company said. “We built Claude Duet

Former Seagate Chief Legal Officer and Altera General Counsel brings deep semiconductor, governance, and cybersecurity expertise to the Efinix board Efinix®, Inc., the FPGA pioneer accelerating edge AI innovation, today announced that Kate Schuelke has joined its Board of Directors. Schuelke is an accomplished technology executive and public company director with more than three decades

Single governed platform reduces token consumption by up to 45% and infrastructure complexity across cloud, data center, and edge deployments Couchbase, the Operational Data Platform for AI®, today announced a major expansion of its AI Data Plane with new capabilities including native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP

Survey of 700 IT and security leaders reveals delayed patient care, widespread security workarounds and concern over AI-enabled impersonation Authentication problems for frontline workers are delaying patient care, production and deliveries across industries, according to Frontline Friction: The State of Authentication for Frontline Workers, a new report from Imprivata, a leading provider of access management

Zendesk’s specialised AI agents resolve complex requests end-to-end to give employees a faster path to support, saving customers an estimated 500,000 hours of manual work Zendesk introduced Employee Service AI Agents and Advanced Action Flows to resolve complex employee requests from end to end—helping employees get back to work faster and enabling IT, HR, and