In my previous column, I explored medical AI from a business perspective, focusing on the opportunities it creates for technology companies. But beyond the potential for innovation and new markets, there is a more fundamental question: what difference will these technologies make to the doctors who use them and the patients who depend on them?…
When technology companies discuss security, they usually focus on external threats like data breaches, vulnerable infrastructure, or stolen credentials. But for businesses built around human interaction, one of the most serious threats can exist inside the product itself, in the accounts users believe belong to real people. This is particularly relevant to online dating, where…
Teaching a robot a new job can take far longer than performing the job itself. Collecting demonstrations, preparing training data and updating a model can turn a small workflow change into a substantial engineering project. Machenta has raised a $40 million seed round to shorten that process, developing a robot foundation model designed to acquire…
Matt Meyers is General Manager, North America SMB at Lenovo, where he works with small and midsized businesses navigating AI adoption, cybersecurity, and the operational demands of modern IT. He has spent more than a decade at Lenovo, with experience spanning global accounts, services and software, digital workplace solutions, and commercial leadership. That progression has…
Olga Beregovaya is Vice President of AI at Smartling, where she leads AI strategy across translation, data, quality, and safety. She has worked in natural language processing since 1997, spanning rule-based systems, statistical models, neural networks, and large language models. Before joining Smartling, she served as VP of AI Innovation at Welocalize and CEO of…
A coding agent can spend much of a session finding the right files before it makes a useful change. Each search adds context that may travel back to a model on later turns, turning a modest task into a growing inference bill. Bito is targeting both sides of that cost with Governor, a new model…
Guidewire launched a new platform approach to agentic insurance on October 27, 2026, at its Connections 2026 customer conference in Las Vegas, presenting a portfolio of agents and agentic capabilities spanning underwriting, claims, and the underlying data platform. Guidewire described the approach as an open, secure, and complete foundation for putting AI to work across…
ANYbotics announced the launch of ANYmal X on October 27, 2026, and said the explosion-protected legged inspection robot is now shipping to oil, gas, and chemical customers including Equinor and DSM-Firmenich. The Zurich-based company describes ANYmal X as the world’s first legged inspection robot built for explosive atmospheres, designed to automate routine inspection rounds in…
Apple on October 27, 2026, introduced updates to Apple Creator Studio, its collection of creative apps for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, adding built-in MotionVFX content to Final Cut Pro, a natural-language Generate Fill tool to Pixelmator Pro, and new intelligent assistants to Logic Pro, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The updates will be available on the…
Salesforce announced on October 27, 2026, a set of additions to Agent Fabric, its AI control plane for managing and governing agents across platforms, headlined by Agent Evals, API Evals, and advanced cost controls. Salesforce said the platform handles more than 1.2 billion requests daily. The announcement frames the additions around a specific operational problem:…