The crack of a bat accompanied by a roar from the crowd can capture a baseball fan’s attention, even if they miss seeing the home run. Humans may be visual creatures, but we also perceive the world around us by listening to it. To improve artificial perception, MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis SM ’97, PhD ’01…
OneQode announced on October 28, 2026, that it has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai, India, what the company called its first major AI infrastructure deployment in the country. The companies are also continuing discussions on additional capacity opportunities of up to 114 MW in…
Anthropic and the U.S. General Services Administration announced an expanded OneGov agreement on October 27, 2026, giving government buyers a 40% consumption-based discount on Claude and extending eligibility beyond the federal government to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Agreement Terms and Eligibility Under the agreement, government partners receive a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise,…
QorusDocs has launched QPilot Workspace, a shared environment where business development teams and AI agents create proposals, pitches, and responses to requests for proposals. Announced October 27, the workspace combines firm-specific knowledge with drafting, review, and document-production workflows inside Microsoft 365, with connections to Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT. The product targets professional services, legal, technology…
Dream has reported a PHP2Shell attack chain that it says compromised 25 servers, including systems in a U.S. government-affiliated environment. Its October 26 investigation describes an exposed firewall management interface becoming a route toward internal identity infrastructure. The reported total comprises 24 perimeter firewalls and one internal management server. Dream withheld the affected vendor and…
Tensor Auto Inc., an American physical AI company and developer of the Tensor Robocar, and Munich taxi operator Münchner Taxi Zentrum (MTZ) announced a letter of intent (LOI) on October 27, 2026, to deploy Tensor Robocars as autonomous taxis in Germany, with an initial fleet of up to 500 vehicles in German cities and MTZ…
Stellantis has selected Amperity to help connect customer information across its brands and touchpoints, giving teams a more consistent foundation for personalized engagement. The October 27 announcement puts customer identity and context at the center of the automaker’s data transformation, covering relationships that span vehicles, households, dealers, and years of ownership. The planned uses include…
A benefits team can be responsible for a major share of an employer’s spending while still assembling renewal decisions from spreadsheets, claims reports, contracts and email threads. Avante has raised a $30 million Series A to connect that information with AI agents that investigate programs, prepare work for review and help employees use the benefits…
Travelport and Cognizant have expanded their strategic partnership to embed AI across travel retailing infrastructure, software engineering, and operational workflows. Announced October 27, the initiative builds on a 20-year relationship and targets a practical challenge: turning travelers’ requests into completed transactions. According to the announcement, the first modernization phase is complete. AI tools are now…
Brilliant Labs is bringing persistent AI memory and adaptive gaming to its Halo smartglasses, positioning the $399 wearable as a way to ask questions, create small applications, and turn everyday experiences into an evolving game. The company’s October 27 announcement puts its Noa assistant and a game experience called Narrative at the center of that…