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Databricks announced on October 30, 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with SAP, bringing the Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase capabilities to SAP Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud and introducing a new SAP Application Data Foundation for accessing SAP application data. Databricks framed the expansion around business context, saying today’s AI models…
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation. Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed at helping to…
People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter to switch parties or re-examine their political beliefs? MIT researchers have built a new dashboard, called the LLM Election Observatory, to…
OpenAI announced on October 30, 2026 that it will honor a shared signal in robots.txt, the file websites use to express preferences about how their content is used, so that site operators can communicate a single AI training preference to multiple participating providers at once. A Voluntary Signal Shared Across Providers In its announcement, OpenAI…
Google said on October 30, 2026, that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite returned its first AI response from orbit: a haiku generated by an onboard Gemma 4 open model running on a data-center-class Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Travis Beals, Senior Director of Paradigms of Intelligence at Google, announced the milestone in a Google Research post,…
Manufacturers are investing heavily in AI, digital thread initiatives, automation and enterprise modernization to improve productivity and decision-making. Much of the conversation focuses on AI models, infrastructure and integration. But many organizations are overlooking a fundamental prerequisite for these efforts: confidence in the underlying product data and business rules that drive operational decisions. The challenge…
Sapan Pandya is a Senior Software Engineer and IEEE Senior Member based in New Jersey, with more than ten years of experience in resilient distributed transaction systems. His work spans transaction integrity, integration between software and physical devices, production troubleshooting, and deployment validation in regulated environments. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from…
OpenAI on October 30, 2026 announced a Community Safety Report on violence prevention that it will update every six months, alongside new protections that restrict weapons-related information for teens and tighten how ChatGPT handles questions about past mass attacks. The company said it made more than 200 law enforcement referrals in the third quarter of…
Crisp has launched Halo, a retail AI platform that can run inside an enterprise’s own cloud environment, bringing sales and supply-chain analysis closer to the data and governance systems companies already operate. Announced on October 29, the platform targets consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, retailers, distributors and brokers. The launch addresses a familiar retail problem:…
Jen Vescio is President of Empiric Earth, overseeing product strategy, corporate development, and commercialization. She previously served as Chief Business Development Officer at Uber, where she led global business development and new partnerships in mobility and autonomy. Her experience also spans investing in and advising emerging technology companies, with a focus on helping physical AI…