A designer in Mexico City invoices a client in New York in dollars, gets paid into a digital wallet, and covers her rent in pesos. Until recently, she found out what a month of work was actually worth only after the money had landed and been converted, by which point the exchange rate had already…
Tower Semiconductor and Semtech Corporation announced on October 13, 2026, an expanded multi-year agreement under which Semtech will invest in securing dedicated silicon germanium (SiGe) capacity at Tower, building on the companies’ 20-year partnership to support optical and copper interconnects for AI data center infrastructure. The joint announcement, datelined Migdal Haemek, Israel, and Camarillo, California,…
Airline software company Accelya on October 13, 2026 announced FLX Recover, an agentic AI-powered solution designed to help airlines assist disrupted passengers faster, more intelligently and at scale. It is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, powered by Accelya’s FLX AIViator intelligence layer, and was engineered with RapidScale, a provider of…
The International Monetary Fund released its October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report on October 13, 2026, warning that weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could trigger a correction in AI-linked equities and credit, one of three salient risks it says could abruptly tighten financial conditions worldwide. The report, titled Resilience, Risk,…
Character Technologies Inc. (Character.AI) said in an announcement late on October 12, 2026 that it has filed a voluntary Chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to pursue a sale of all or substantially all of its assets, with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. as stalking horse bidder in a…
DXC Technology said on October 13, 2026, that it is partnering with LangChain to advance governed agentic AI across mission-critical enterprise IT environments, with its OASIS orchestration platform already in production and scaling toward 125 customer environments across regulated industries and multiple geographies. LangChain is the company behind the open-source LangGraph agent framework and the…
When government officials craft policies, there is often a comment period for public feedback. Lawmakers have long had to sort through fake feedback that is mass-produced in an effort to sway policy, but they’ve generally gotten used to detecting it. With, artificial intelligence, however, people can submit realistic-seeming comments, which are harder to dismiss as…
Omron Corporation announced on October 12, 2026, that it has agreed to acquire Interlogic, Inc., the Vermont-based parent of U.S. industrial PC maker OnLogic, Inc., for $675 million in cash, in a deal the Japanese automation company framed around digital transformation at manufacturing sites and physical AI. Deal Structure and Terms Under the agreement, executed…
Active memory is the information an AI system has available for the task it is handling now. Persistent memory is information the surrounding application retains so it can be used again later. The relationship between them determines whether an assistant can continue a project, apply a preference, correct an outdated assumption, or stop resurfacing something…
Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said on October 12, 2026 that the company has a company-wide reorganization underway aimed at artificial intelligence. “We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration,” Sweeney wrote in a post on his verified X account. Sweeney wrote that…