Alphabet Inc. reported third quarter 2026 revenue of $127.6 billion on October 28, 2026, a 25% increase from the same period a year earlier, while net income available to common stockholders fell to $26.2 billion after an $8.7 billion net loss on equity securities. The results were furnished in a Form 8-K filed with the…
President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation on October 28, 2026, concurring with a Commerce Department finding that imports of robotics, industrial machinery, and their parts and components threaten to impair U.S. national security, and directing negotiations with trading partners to adjust those imports. The proclamation records that, within the preceding 90 days, the Secretary…
Sierra introduced Compliance Console on October 28, 2026, a set of configurable guardrails and controls built into its Horizon platform that the company says is designed to help AI agents follow the rules that apply to their outreach across channels, use cases, states, and countries. Sierra said agents have reached a tipping point in the…
An AI assistant can explain why a business system has failed without resolving the failure. The harder step is connecting that explanation to an authorised action, carrying it out and checking that it worked. Digitate is addressing that gap with ignio Hummingbird, a release that combines specialised IT operations agents, custom agent creation and connections…
OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership on October 28, 2026, that brings more OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow products and connects ServiceNow workflows with ChatGPT and Codex, spanning application development, cybersecurity, voice-driven risk assessment, and new deployments inside both companies. The expansion builds on the multi-year agreement the companies announced on January 20,…
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, describing it as the company’s strongest frontier model, and said it will reach users through a staged rollout that begins with a subset of cyber defenders rather than a broad release. In the announcement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google,…
Anthropic made three Claude Enterprise features generally available on October 28, 2026: smart reports that analyze what teams accomplish with Claude and what that work costs, in-app surveys that gather employee feedback, and pooled group budgets that let administrators set one shared monthly spending pool per team. Smart Reports: Workstreams, Costs, and Privacy Guardrails An…
Microsoft on October 28, 2026 made the Microsoft Copilot harness — the multi-model orchestration layer that already powers Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, the Copilot CLI, and VS Code — available to developers and enterprise customers through Microsoft Foundry, in an announcement on the Official Microsoft Blog. Microsoft describes a harness as…
Jim Rowan is US Head of AI at Deloitte and a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP, helping organizations translate AI ambitions into business outcomes. His career spans enterprise technology, analytics, data, and digital transformation, with experience across life sciences, health care, and telecommunications. He has held leadership roles in Deloitte’s Strategy & Analytics and AI…
A revenue operations team runs its account list through a waterfall enrichment tool. The tool queries one data provider, then a second for any gaps, then a third. An AI research agent fills whatever is still blank by reading company websites and news. The dashboard shows a 97% fill rate. A sales rep opens a…