Leidos said on October 22, 2026, that it will deploy artificial intelligence automation to streamline and accelerate the Pentagon’s asset management system under a new $95 million five-year contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency. In an announcement datelined Reston, Virginia, the company said the system, known as the Enterprise Logistics Management System or ELMS,…
The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new hosted projects on October 22, 2026: Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic; Open Responses, contributed by OpenAI; OpenEnv, contributed by Hugging Face; and OpenSandbox, contributed by Alibaba. The additions bring AAIF to 10 hosted projects in its first year, up from three launch projects in December 2025. The announcement…
Uber is rolling out OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent to more than 30,000 employees across its global workforce starting October 22, 2026, expanding an earlier 1,000-employee pilot into a company-wide deployment inside ChatGPT Enterprise, according to OpenAI’s announcement. The announcement describes the expansion as Uber’s first company-wide deployment of an agentic platform tailored for knowledge work….
A suspicious login can leave clues in an identity platform, an endpoint tool, and a cloud account without any one system showing the whole incident. Mave is building AI agents to connect those clues where they already live. The Tel Aviv startup has announced $34 million in funding, including a $28 million Series A, to…
Ayush Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Warp, which he launched in 2023 after experiencing the complexity of managing payroll across multiple U.S. states and countries. Raised in a small town in India, he studied computer science and physics at MIT. His master’s research focused on mitigating slow-running components in distributed machine learning training,…
Search strategy used to be straightforward. A customer had a question, typed it into a search engine, and brands competed to rank highest on the results page. But this model is quickly changing. A growing share of discovery now happens inside AI systems that interpret information, synthesize sources and provide an answer before a customer…
A food or drink brand can win a new retail listing and still struggle to fill it. Ingredients must arrive, packaging has to match specification, production needs a slot, and suppliers often need paying before the finished goods generate cash. Opply has raised $7.5 million to put AI agents to work across those connected operations,…
NVIDIA launched Minerva on October 22, 2026, describing it as an AIOps platform that gives operations teams earlier warning of infrastructure problems across AI factories. Minerva consolidates telemetry from both infrastructure and AI workloads, then applies purpose-built AI models to convert that data into actionable insight, according to the company. AI factories rank among the…
Organizations are pouring money into GPUs, servers, models and the compute capacity needed to move AI into production. But agentic AI puts different demands on the network. A chatbot typically waits for someone to ask it a question, whereas an agent can be given a task, interact with different systems and applications, make decisions and…
The Allen Institute for AI released OlmoEarth v1.3 on October 22, 2026, an open satellite embedding model accompanied by precomputed annual embeddings for the whole planet at 10-meter resolution and a browser-based OlmoEarth Embeddings Explorer that requires no sign-in. The release includes the OlmoEarth v1.3 Base model, precomputed global embeddings in 128- and 64-dimensional versions,…