Google announced on October 20, 2026, at PyTorch Conference 2026 that TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), is now available as open source on GitHub, the company said on the Google Cloud blog. The software was co-developed with the PyTorch team at Meta and is designed to run existing PyTorch workloads…
Sierra on October 20, 2026, announced a partnership with Stripe that lets customers converse with one of its AI agents, pay, and receive a receipt on the same call. Sierra said healthcare payments company Cedar was one of the first companies to take payments over the phone through the integration. In the announcement, Sierra said…
Artificial intelligence in medicine is most often associated with detecting abnormalities in medical images, analyzing test results, and helping doctors make diagnoses. But lately, I’ve been encountering more and more developments that go far beyond these applications and challenge the way we think about what medical technology can achieve. Some are so ambitious that their…
A hiring score, a credit assessment, or a clinical recommendation can look impartial while carrying forward the inequalities in the data behind it. That is the central warning of the Gender Equity Policy Institute’s new report, How AI Fails Women: When Bias Becomes Amplified, which brings together research on how automated systems can reproduce—and sometimes…
Perplexity published a guide on October 20, 2026, explaining how AI gateways route, meter, and govern traffic between applications and large language models and when an organization needs one. Titled “What Is an AI Gateway? A Guide to Routing, Cost Control, and Governance for LLM and Agent Traffic,” the post appeared as the newest entry…
Deepak Kinger, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of EvoluteIQ, is an experienced technology and business leader with more than two decades of experience spanning enterprise transformation, financial services, automation, and artificial intelligence. At EvoluteIQ, he helps shape the company’s overall strategy while leading key technology alliances, solution partnerships, marketing, and analyst relationships. Before co-founding EvoluteIQ…
Back in March we looked at the difficulty generative AI video has in remembering things and places that it has seen, so that it can reproduce them a second time, and offer visual consistency. The net effect of the problem is that you may walk through a door in an AI world model, turn round…
In an October 20, 2026 post on Hugging Face, IBM Research reported that guidelines learned automatically from an agent’s own training runs and appended to its system prompt lifted a stock GPT-4.1 customer-service agent to 67.5% Pass^4 on τ²-bench’s retail domain, above every retail entry in the team’s October 12, 2026 leaderboard snapshot. The result…
The 2027 planning season is right around the corner for enterprises, and AI investments are once again at the top of C-suite conversations. Akeneo’s recent survey of IT decision-makers showed 93% reported productivity gains from AI, yet 43% said AI has also added new responsibilities to their roles. These findings highlight the significant amount of…
Spotify said on October 20, 2026, that it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated slop and spam tracks out of listener recommendations in 2026 alone, disclosing the figure in a one-year progress report on the artist protections it announced in September 2025. The post, titled “One Year In: Putting Human Artistry First on Spotify,”…