October 2026

OpenAI Group PBC revealed today that it has acquired drug development software startup Orchestra Bio Inc. Orchestra builds artificial intelligence agents that help pharmaceutical teams keep development programs on track,. Its staff and technology will now sit inside OpenAI’s Rosalind life sciences unit. Much of OpenAI’s case for the deal comes down to how long […]

Otter.ai Inc., the developer of a popular artificial intelligence meeting assistant, today announced that it has raised $320 million in funding. The capital came entirely from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The investment vehicle provides startups with financing for sales and marketing initiatives. General Catalyst doesn’t take a stake in portfolio companies, but instead receives

Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT-6 Luna and Anthropic PBC’s Claude Haiku 5.5 on eight of 12 tests at four to eight times their speed. The release takes on the main doubt about Inception’s

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its own production services. The release takes on the cost of serving large models to the public. DeepSeek calls reaching a massive user base at a reasonable price “the core problem an inference framework has

We haven’t heard many details about Microsoft’s upcoming “Project Helix” gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will “play your Xbox and PC games.” In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortune alludes to a dual release strategy for upcoming Microsoft gaming hardware, with “a

Police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers on Monday, seizing doses of hepatitis B vaccine intended for a vaccine trial for newborns. International health experts have called the trial “unethical,” but anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attempted to fund it with US taxpayer dollars. Under Kennedy, the US Centers for

Elon Musk said Tuesday that he would like to see the consolidation of his business empire by formally merging his two largest companies, SpaceX and Tesla. “Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes,” Musk said of a potential merger. He was speaking during a question-and-answer period as part of SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings

Enterprise AI is crossing from experimentation into production, and financial services firms are among the first to prove it can pay off at scale. As token consumption climbs, finance chiefs are now treating AI less as a science project and more as a budget line that has to earn its keep. That shift is changing

Enterprise work management is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence agents move beyond assisting employees to executing business processes. Platforms once designed to organize projects and track assignments are becoming environments where people and autonomous agents collaborate, raising questions about application development, productivity and governance. That transition is a central theme of monday.com’s Elevate conference,

Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each logical qubit, the better the chances are of identifying errors. But,