Kong Becomes Founding Member of ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance
ServiceNow on October 28, 2026 announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a partner ecosystem spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering, with Kong among founding members that also include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence…
Google Rolls Out AI Mode Ads in 10 Countries, Multiturn Ads in U.S.
Google is scaling ads in AI Mode to 10 additional countries and launching multiturn ads in the United States, which allow ads to appear in follow-up queries in AI Mode, the company announced on October 28, 2026. The expansion covers Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. In the…
Microsoft Posts 19% Revenue Growth as Azure Revenue Jumps 48%
Microsoft on October 28, 2026, announced results for its fiscal 2027 first quarter, ended September 30, 2026, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, and net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Azure revenue increased 48%. Operating income was $45.9 billion and increased 21%, or 22% in constant…
Kindo Launches Deep Hat Sift to Cut Unnecessary AI Agent Runs
An AI agent that reads every security alert or log entry incurs a cost even when its conclusion is that nothing needs doing. At enterprise volumes, those uneventful investigations can become a substantial workload of their own. Kindo has launched Deep Hat Sift, a model designed to decide which incoming events warrant an agent run…
Alphabet Posts 25% Revenue Growth as Google Cloud Jumps 103%
Alphabet Inc. reported third quarter 2026 revenue of $127.6 billion on October 28, 2026, a 25% increase from the same period a year earlier, while net income available to common stockholders fell to $26.2 billion after an $8.7 billion net loss on equity securities. The results were furnished in a Form 8-K filed with the…
Trump Directs Robotics Import Talks After Commerce Security Finding
President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation on October 28, 2026, concurring with a Commerce Department finding that imports of robotics, industrial machinery, and their parts and components threaten to impair U.S. national security, and directing negotiations with trading partners to adjust those imports. The proclamation records that, within the preceding 90 days, the Secretary…
Sierra Adds Compliance Console to Horizon Agent Platform
Sierra introduced Compliance Console on October 28, 2026, a set of configurable guardrails and controls built into its Horizon platform that the company says is designed to help AI agents follow the rules that apply to their outreach across channels, use cases, states, and countries. Sierra said agents have reached a tipping point in the…
Digitate Adds Governed IT Agents and MCP Integration With ignio Hummingbird
An AI assistant can explain why a business system has failed without resolving the failure. The harder step is connecting that explanation to an authorised action, carrying it out and checking that it worked. Digitate is addressing that gap with ignio Hummingbird, a release that combines specialised IT operations agents, custom agent creation and connections…
OpenAI and ServiceNow Expand Partnership With ChatGPT Workflow Plugin
OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership on October 28, 2026, that brings more OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow products and connects ServiceNow workflows with ChatGPT and Codex, spanning application development, cybersecurity, voice-driven risk assessment, and new deployments inside both companies. The expansion builds on the multi-year agreement the companies announced on January 20,…
Staged Rollout Sends Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon To Cyber Defenders First
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, describing it as the company’s strongest frontier model, and said it will reach users through a staged rollout that begins with a subset of cyber defenders rather than a broad release. In the announcement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google,…