A phishing message no longer needs to persuade the employee who owns an inbox. It can target the software reading that inbox on their behalf. That is the central warning of IRONSCALES' new From Deepfakes to Double Agents: The New Face of AI-Driven Cyber Risk report, which finds that enterprise adoption of tools capable of taking action has moved faster than the security controls surrounding them. In the company-commissioned Censuswide survey, 77% of respondents said an AI agent or tool at their…

The race to build larger AI systems is creating demand for a component far removed from the models themselves: the lasers that carry data between processors. Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to develop multi-wavelength laser sources that it says can be manufactured at the volumes next-generation AI data centers will require. The round, announced on October 21, was co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital. Existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and…

Andrej Jonovic is the CEO of XBP Global, a multinational technology and services company focused on mission-critical enterprise workflows. XBP Global is applying agentic AI across regulated environments including healthcare, public sector and financial services, where precision, security, data sovereignty and auditability are essential. In this interview, Jonovic discusses adaptive process orchestration, open-weight models, intelligent document processing, human adjudication and what it takes…

Before a robotics team can test a new policy, someone has to make the simulator, data, storage, and compute work together. CoreWeave is targeting that preparation work with Physical AI Launchables, a catalog of tested workload templates announced on October 21 for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and simulation. The templates package environments for five tools—NVIDIA Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, NVIDIA AlpaSim, and NVIDIA Cosmos 3—so engineers can configure and start a workload with a command…

I've been writing exclusively about artificial intelligence for ten years. In 2022, there were only a handful of other journalists in the world exclusively dedicated to AI; now we number in the multiple thousands or more, with better-heeled outlets employing more than one staff member to exclusively cover artificial intelligence. As a species, we now concentrate our attention, efforts, fears and hopes around a once-in-a-century cultural and technological phenomena that, until the advent of…

As Brazil increases its investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, Marcelo Borgheti, Managing Director at Vistra Brazil, considers why converting data centres into a broader AI economy requires governments to focus on operating environments as much as megawatts. With the global race for technology leadership gathering pace, Brazil is stepping up its investment in the infrastructure needed to compete in AI. Its government recently announced approximately 2.3 billion reais (US$444.2…

Mary Technology has announced an integration with Harvey designed to bring a litigation team's accumulated factual work into the platform where its lawyers research and draft. The connector gives Harvey access to the matter record maintained in Mary, including earlier findings, supporting evidence, and the team's review of those findings. The partnership addresses a practical problem in legal AI: producing a convincing answer is only one part of the job. Lawyers also need to establish which…

Glean introduced headless agent building on October 21, 2026, a generally available feature that lets developers create, test, and publish agents as code from coding environments such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, with the finished agents running on Glean's managed runtime. The company announced the feature in a blog post authored by Kelly Huang, a product marketing manager at Glean. Glean said agents authored in code run on the same foundation as agents built in its visual agent builder…

NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, that European automakers and mobility providers including Bolt with Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride are showcasing autonomous-mobility use cases on the NVIDIA Hyperion computing platform, demonstrating potential applications for level 3 and level 4 vehicles and future robotaxi fleets. Volvo Cars is adopting Hyperion and NVIDIA Alpamayo Stack software for safe automated driving, and NVIDIA introduced new AI and…

OpenAI is extending ChatGPT Ads to 26 additional countries, bringing the advertising platform's availability to 89 countries worldwide, the company said in an October 21, 2026 announcement. OpenAI also reported that more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns on ChatGPT since ads launched just over eight months earlier. New Markets in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Following launches in Mexico and Brazil, OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Ads to 14 more Latin American…

NVIDIA announced Kumo Forecast on October 21, 2026, an open multivariate time-series forecasting model that combines a pretrained MOMENT-1-large Transformer backbone with optional retrieval over historical data and a model-agnostic interpretability framework. The model, formerly known as NV-Tesseract Forecasting, is available under the Apache 2.0 license, and NVIDIA detailed it in an official post on the Hugging Face blog. The post was authored by NVIDIA's Saira Qureshi, Aditi Gautam…

On the morning of October 6, ASOS app users in the UK and several other markets received a push notification from the retailer they normally hear from about new arrivals and discount codes. This one read "ASOS HACKED." It was addressed to the company's Data Protection Officer (DPO) and IT team, claimed the attackers had "fully compromised the Snowflake instance," and threatened to leak data unless ASOS made contact through a Telegram channel. Within the hour, ASOS shares had fallen by more than…

The most useful detail in a customer relationship is often missing from the official record: who really needs to approve a purchase, why a delivery schedule changed, or which exception solved a recurring problem. CollectivIQ is targeting that gap with GigaBrain, a shared enterprise intelligence layer formally rolling out on October 21. The system is designed to make knowledge accumulated through employees’ work with AI teammates available to other authorized teammates across the business. Those…

Protege is launching independent evaluations of healthcare AI, putting models through tests on patient cases they have not seen before. Its first benchmark, Disease Odyssey, offers an early indication of why that matters: according to the company, leading models identified conditions such as sleep apnea and anemia in only 53%–69% of cases when working from patient histories. The October 21 launch also includes evaluations with Xlue AI and Standard Model Biomedicine. Together, the results…

NVIDIA announced SimReady Central Library on October 21, 2026, opening a library of simulation-ready 3D assets on Hugging Face for developers building robotics training environments and AI factory digital twins. In the announcement post, authored by John Kosnik, Frank DeLise, and Pomi Lee, NVIDIA describes the library as a "free, ungated starting point" that brings together more than 2,000 SimReady OpenUSD assets. The library spans infrastructure and equipment ranging from robot arms and…

Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, and physical AI company Sereact announced an official partnership on October 21, 2026, aimed at accelerating industrial AI deployments across retail, logistics and manufacturing. Under the partnership, announced in Berlin, Sereact's physical AI platform, Cortex, runs robot arms from Universal Robots, giving retailers and logistics providers a way to automate unstructured tasks such as returns handling and…

Oracle on October 21, 2026, announced Oracle AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code environment for creating, testing, orchestrating, deploying, and managing AI agents and workflows for industry-specific business processes. The offering builds on Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. Oracle said it enables customers and partners to build and extend agents using existing application data, tools, and business processes, and to embed those agents into daily…

Google Cloud is launching OpenAI's models in its model garden, the company said in an October 21, 2026 announcement, adding GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna to its enterprise AI platform. The three models began rolling out in private preview to select enterprise customers the same day. Michael Gerstenhaber, vice president of product management for Gemini at Google Cloud, authored the announcement. He wrote that Google Cloud has been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and…

Microsoft Corp. announced on October 21, 2026, that Volkswagen Group has equipped more than 330,000 employees across the company with Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft said the deployment is meant to help the automaker's workforce raise productivity, make decisions faster and improve knowledge-based processes across the organization. Sophie Vassarotti, Head of Group Data and AI at Volkswagen Group, said the rollout gives employees secure and trusted AI assistance that supports more efficient work…

Databricks on October 21, 2026, announced the general availability of AI Runtime (AIR), a fully managed, serverless GPU platform built into the Databricks Lakehouse for training and fine-tuning deep learning models on enterprise data. Databricks said hundreds of companies, including Robinhood, PicPay, Merck, Flo Health, TinyFish, and FactSet, already use AIR to train and ship deep learning models to production, with use cases spanning healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer-facing agents. The…