Square launched the new Square Kiosk on October 14, 2026, which the company describes as its new flagship intelligent self-service kiosk for quick-service restaurants, built around an agentic, conversational voice layer that it says fully understands a seller’s menu. The kiosk is available beginning the same day, priced at $1,999 plus a $99 monthly software…
A work conversation can contain everything needed to move a task forward and still leave someone copying its details into another system. Zenzap is betting that AI agents belong inside that conversation, alongside the people responsible for the work. The company emerged from stealth on October 14, announcing $44 million in total funding jointly led…
Two teams at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design published papers in Nature on October 14, 2026, reporting proteases designed from scratch with computational methods that hydrolyse the polypeptide backbone at chosen sequences, including sites in the human disease-associated proteins TDP-43, amyloid-β and serum amyloid A. The amide bonds linking amino acids along…
Anthropic has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform, announcing on October 14, 2026 that developers can now send traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs to any observability tool that accepts the standard, with the feature available in public beta. In Anthropic’s announcement, the company said that adding a…
Google on October 14, 2026 announced a new set of AI-powered Android scam defenses in an Android Security blog post, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages, as the company said its Scam Detection tools now flag more than 5 million suspected scam calls and texts every month. The post, authored by…
A Microsoft Research-led team published a study in Nature on October 14, 2026, introducing probabilistic bias correction (PBC), a machine learning framework the authors report improves weather forecasts two to six weeks ahead, alongside an open-source release of the code. The study states that although modern dynamical and AI systems deliver accurate forecasts out to…
Waymo opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the general public in San Antonio, San Diego, and Tampa on October 14, 2026, announcing that anyone in the three cities can download the Waymo app and hail a ride. The opening includes fully autonomous service at San Antonio International Airport. The company said it has welcomed…
NVIDIA on October 14, 2026, unveiled cuPotential, a new CUDA-X library that developers can use to build AI agents simulating how atoms and molecules interact, and detailed adoption of its CUDA-X libraries across chip design, manufacturing and testing by semiconductor leaders including Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Lam Research, KLA and Applied Materials. cuPotential and the AI-Defined…
Troy Morris, Co-Founder and CEO of KMI Space, leads the company’s strategy, operations, partnerships, and growth as it develops technologies for in-space mobility and orbital sustainability. A co-founder of the company since 2019, Morris initially served as Director of Operations before becoming CEO in 2023, helping KMI grow from a bootstrapped startup into a space…
Eric Connors, Chief Product Officer at iCIMS, leads the company’s product strategy and product management organizations, shaping the vision, roadmap, delivery, and go-to-market strategy for its portfolio. He brings more than three decades of experience spanning enterprise software, SaaS, financial technology, data, and product leadership. Before joining iCIMS in 2024, Connors served as Chief Operating…