October 2026

Dynata, the world’s largest first-party data company  for insights, activation and measurement, today announced the appointment of Marcus  Casal as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). Marcus will join Dynata’s  executive leadership team, leading product development, AI and data strategy, and  engineering.  The appointment advances Dynata’s strategy to drive growth by applying its verified  human […]

Reliance on AI to Drive Tasks and Bolster Customer Experience Grows; Success Driven by Strong AI/SaaS Partnerships, Connected Data and Processes Propel Software, creator of the first product value management (PVM) platform that transforms how businesses create, market, sell, and service products, provides its annual business and technology predictions for the coming year. Propel CEO

The AIM Chess League 2026 Grand Finale was held on October 9, the third day of Cypher 2026, at KTPO, Bengaluru.  Srujan Keerthan won the championship and received ₹3 lakh in prize money, followed by Yashas D in second place with ₹1.5 lakh and Augustin A in third place with ₹1 lakh. The final featured

OpenAI is accelerating its planned $30 billion fundraising round ahead of rival Anthropic’s expected initial public offering (IPO) in mid-November, a move that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1.4 trillion, according to a Reuters report. SoftBank Group, Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and other existing OpenAI backers are in talks to participate in the

Bengaluru-based digital trust company eMudhra generated eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) private keys with minimal randomness, which attackers could recover almost instantly.  Six of the affected certificates were authorised to issue TLS certificates for websites, potentially allowing attackers to impersonate domains they did not control on systems that still trusted the compromised keys. The other

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven Realtime, a family of speech-to-speech models for building voice agents, with two variants for different workloads, as the company looks to simplify the development of conversational AI systems. Eleven Realtime v1 Mini targets applications such as AI assistants, teachers, and interactive characters, while Eleven Realtime v1 Max targets customer support, lead

Salesforce has agreed to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion, as the company looks to expand its marketing capabilities with real-time customer data and AI-powered personalisation. Under the terms of the agreement, Braze Class A shareholders will receive $47.50 per share in cash. The transaction is expected to close in Salesforce’s FY28. 

Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patches for two vulnerabilities, both with severity ratings of

An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc., which builds complex models of air traffic and energy grids, said today it has scored $325 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a cool $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital and joined by participants including Citadel Securities, Craft Ventures, Meritech Capital, Energy

Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called TorchTPU, which is designed to eliminate a key advantage of its rival. One of the reasons why Nvidia and its graphics processing units remain so dominant