Microsoft on October 28, 2026 made the Microsoft Copilot harness — the multi-model orchestration layer that already powers Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, the Copilot CLI, and VS Code — available to developers and enterprise customers through Microsoft Foundry, in an announcement on the Official Microsoft Blog. Microsoft describes a harness as…
Jim Rowan is US Head of AI at Deloitte and a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP, helping organizations translate AI ambitions into business outcomes. His career spans enterprise technology, analytics, data, and digital transformation, with experience across life sciences, health care, and telecommunications. He has held leadership roles in Deloitte’s Strategy & Analytics and AI…
A revenue operations team runs its account list through a waterfall enrichment tool. The tool queries one data provider, then a second for any gaps, then a third. An AI research agent fills whatever is still blank by reading company websites and news. The dashboard shows a 97% fill rate. A sales rep opens a…
Slack made the Slack Code API generally available on all Slack plans on October 28, 2026, opening the code-channel system it launched in August 2026 to any developer’s agent. In a post on Slack’s developer blog, the company said more than 150 customers and partners had asked for access to build code-channel experiences for their…
Plato has raised $16 million in Series A funding to build simulated workplaces where AI models can practice using software, navigating business decisions, and completing complex jobs before they operate in live systems. Nava Ventures led the round, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform, and Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. The financing brings…
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced on October 28, 2026 that Eli Lilly and Company has licensed SpeechDx, a longitudinal speech-and-biomarker dataset built by the foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator, and will use the resource to study whether speech can serve as a tool for Alzheimer’s research. Lilly is the third organization to license the dataset,…
RapidCanvas has acquired Entytle, bringing an industrial aftermarket intelligence business into its managed AI platform as manufacturers look for ways to turn decades of equipment data into more consistent parts and service revenue. The deal includes Entytle’s technology, customers, and employees; financial terms were not disclosed. The October 28 announcement pairs RapidCanvas’s agentic platform and…
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission disclosed a new round of hacking incidents across the country’s financial industry on October 28, 2026, convening an emergency inspection meeting over a breach at virtual asset exchange Bithumb and confirming additional customer information leakage at Daishin Securities. The emergency meeting was chaired by Digital Finance Policy Director-General Yu Yeong-jun…
Muck Rack’s October 2026 What Is AI Reading? report finds that journalism’s share of AI citations has fallen from about 27% in May to 22%, even as earned and third-party sources continue to account for roughly 84% of citations. The fourth edition draws on more than 40 million AI responses and 207 million citations across…
Adam Markowitz is CEO and co-founder of Drata, where he is expanding the company’s work in continuous compliance and trust into AI agent governance. Before co-founding Drata in 2020, he founded Portfolium alongside Troy Markowitz and Daniel Marashlian. His experience navigating security questionnaires, audits, and compliance reviews helped shape Drata’s approach to automating how organizations…