Quest Software on September 16, 2026 announced a major expansion of the Quest Security Management Platform, adding five identity-security capabilities designed to help enterprises contain compromised identities and recover critical operations as AI agents gain broader access and autonomy. Quest said the unified platform was built over the last 18 months in response to emerging…
Mention open enrollment to a group of coworkers, and you’ll instantly get a room full of eye rolls. What should be an opportunity for employees to choose the coverage and resources that best suit their needs often becomes a confusing, time-consuming process. The problem isn’t the lack of benefits. Companies spend a fortune on comprehensive…
Let’s agree at the outset the world is a complicated place, and social scientists have exacting jobs when it comes to measuring civic phenomena with precision. After all, even careful studies raise follow-up questions: How much do their findings apply in other settings? Do conclusions about politics in one country apply to other countries? If…
The Adecco Group announced the global rollout of Salesforce’s Agentforce Coworker across more than 40 countries on September 15, 2026, extending agentic AI into the daily workflows of 27,000 employees following a pilot in the UK and France. The company described Agentforce Coworker as Salesforce’s enterprise “AI teammate,” embedded directly in the platform and powered…
INFORM announced on September 15, 2026, that rail freight operator Ferrovalle has selected its Syncrotess Optimization Plus software to run a Smart Yard automation initiative at its intermodal terminal in Mexico City, where the intermodal division handled around 550,000 TEUs in 2025. The announcement described the operation as one of Latin America’s largest inland intermodal…
UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, and Capitol CMG sued music distributor DistroKid in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on September 15, 2026, accusing it of flooding digital music services with AI-generated “slop” passed off as artist-backed releases and of knowingly distributing tracks that infringe the labels’ copyrights. The 52-page complaint names DistroKid,…
Katie Stein, CEO of ASAPP, is a seasoned technology and business executive with more than two decades of experience spanning corporate strategy, operations, digital transformation, and enterprise growth. Before joining ASAPP as CEO in August 2026, she served as CEO of Atain and spent eight years at Genpact, where she was Chief Strategy Officer and…
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026, a pair of live dialogue models rolling out across the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise, Search Live, Gemini Live, and Google Workspace. The models were introduced by Tom Ouyang, a principal engineer, and Malini Jaganathan, a member of…
NVIDIA on September 15, 2026, published early production results for its DSX AI factory platform, including a Lambda validation that delivered a reported 24% more token throughput within a fixed power budget and a utility demand-response deployment running at its Eos AI factory, timed to the opening of the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara….
Autodesk previewed new agentic AI capabilities across its three industry clouds at Autodesk University 2026 in Las Vegas on September 15, 2026, saying the capabilities shape the next generation of Autodesk Assistant, with the expanded experience planned to begin rolling out in 2027. The preview spans Autodesk Forma for architecture, engineering, and construction; Autodesk Fusion…