Sony Interactive Entertainment on October 1, 2026 unveiled Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new performance tier of AI upscaling for the standard PlayStation 5, in an official PlayStation Blog announcement. Developed through the company’s Project Amethyst graphics collaboration with AMD, the library debuted the same day in patches for Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of…
Decagon introduced four products at its Decagon Dialogues 2026 event on October 1, 2026: Voice 3 with a new speech model called Chord, Personal Agent Gateway with a companion authorization protocol, Agent Modules, and the Duet Apprentice beta. Co-founder and CEO Jesse Zhang and co-founder and President Ashwin Sreenivas detailed the releases in a company…
YMX Logistics and Outrider announced a strategic partnership on October 1, 2026, to expand the deployment of self-driving, zero-emission yard trucks at YMX customer sites. Under the five-year commercial agreement, datelined Henderson, Nevada, and Henderson, Colorado, YMX will operate and support the Outrider System in large enterprise customers’ yards. Terms of the Five-Year Agreement The…
Over the past few years, the financial industry has been racing to implement artificial intelligence. Companies are increasingly buying models and signing contracts with vendors, but that yields little or a terrifying result. According to an MIT study published last year, 95% of corporate AI pilots have no measurable effect on сompanies profits. At the…
Bloomberg announced on October 1, 2026 that it has completed its acquisition of Canoe Intelligence, an AI-powered data management and intelligence platform that automates private markets data collection and delivery, following a definitive agreement Bloomberg announced on July 29, 2026. Bloomberg described the completed transaction as the next step in its strategy to deliver unified…
AdventHealth is making OpenEvidence available to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, therapists and other clinical roles across its network, with access integrated into existing electronic health record workflows, the organizations announced on October 1, 2026. The availability begins October 1, 2026. Access Inside Existing EHR Workflows The announcement, datelined Altamonte Springs, Florida, states that AdventHealth…
LlamaIndex introduced Extract v2.5 on October 1, 2026, a new generation of its schema-based document extraction agents. In a blog post bylined to Adrian Lyjak and Eli Stewart, the company reported accuracy improvements across all three of its extraction tiers and enhanced grounding for its two highest tiers, Agentic and Agentic Plus, and said the…
The Allen Institute for AI released Olmo-core 3 on October 1, 2026, an upgrade to its large language model development framework built around a redesigned open mixture-of-experts training system that Ai2 said it has benchmarked at more than one trillion total parameters. Ai2 said Olmo-core 3 is designed to scale MoE training into the trillion-parameter…
For all the attention being paid to AI legislation, some of the most consequential rules governing the technology may end up coming from a truly unexpected place: procurement departments. Like many regulatory beginnings in the United States, California offers an early example: the state has built specific requirements for buying products and services that use…
Volantis, a San Francisco semiconductor company building a new category of AI inference system, announced an $88 million Series A on October 1, 2026, co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, to fund development and commercialization of its photonic A-1 system. The round drew participation from John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic and Susa Ventures, with…