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 generative AI. State entities must assess the risk associated with GenAI purchases, with moderate- and high-risk uses receiving…

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 range while preserving computational efficiency, and described it as one of the core systems behind the next generation of Olmo. The release is…

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 gains come with no increase in per-page pricing. Tier-By-Tier Benchmark Gains LlamaIndex reported that on ExtractBench, its open document-extraction…

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 is working with OpenEvidence to help care teams find current…

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 data, analytics, and tools that power end-to-end workflows across public and private markets. According to 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 same time, the spending is skyrocketing, as it is estimated that last year the world spent 1.76 trillion dollars on AI, and in 2026 this figure…

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 release describes YMX Logistics as a national provider of integrated yard logistics for enterprise shippers…

Most organizations can identify the AI tools they use. The harder question is whether they can produce a reliable record of what enterprise data those systems accessed, what instructions they received, what they returned and which policies governed the interaction. That gap can remain hidden during a pilot. It becomes obvious when a regulator asks questions, a customer challenges a decision or litigation puts the system under scrutiny. By then, the audit trail either exists or it does not. The…

CellCarta and Imagene AI announced an expanded collaboration on October 1, 2026, to provide biopharma companies a coordinated path for validating, deploying and scaling AI-powered biomarker and companion diagnostic (CDx) programs, and said work is already underway with two global pharmaceutical companies. The expanded collaboration is meant to carry programs from biomarker strategy and assay development through validation, clinical trial execution, regulatory readiness and deployment, the…

Perplexity on October 1, 2026 announced a collection of ready-to-use Skills for Perplexity Computer curated for U.S. American Express Business Card Members, alongside card-linked offers that include a $125 statement credit and 1,000 bonus Computer Credits. Access requires an active Perplexity Enterprise subscription. Perplexity describes the collection as pre-built AI workflows for everyday work needs, including tax preparation, cash flow forecasting, and marketing campaign generation, and the…

Applied Materials and BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) announced an expansion of their longstanding strategic partnership on October 1, 2026, with Besi joining Applied's EPIC Center in Silicon Valley as an Innovation Partner and extending a joint development program the companies launched in 2020. The expansion extends the companies' co-innovation beyond hybrid bonding into new interconnect architectures and applications supporting the semiconductor industry's AI-driven scaling roadmap…

The template for a typical 'Can AI automate this?' line of inquiry is to feed multiple examples of something whose characteristics you want to isolate, and see if a model trained on that data can pick out that characteristic on similar data that was not used in training: It's a bit of a 'Hail Mary', since such experiments rest on the assumption that the characteristic will eventually stand out in the data if the AI keeps looking at the dataset, and that there is actually any kind of 'underlying…

DeepKeep has introduced AI Lens for Developers, a security layer designed to give CISOs visibility and policy control over AI coding agents operating on developer machines. The product extends DeepKeep’s existing AI usage-control and runtime-protection capabilities to tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, with support for GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Lovable, Windsurf and additional coding agents planned. The launch addresses a security problem created by the growing autonomy of developer…

Preply says artificial intelligence has made professional learning faster and easier to access, but its first annual Progress Report suggests that access is not consistently translating into usable skills. The company surveyed 5,050 working professionals across nine countries and found that 88% use AI as part of their learning. Seventy-six percent reported spending more time learning than they did two years ago, while the average respondent used nearly three learning methods. Yet greater…

On October 1, 2026, Infosys announced a strategic collaboration with Columbia University to support the development and use of applications in artificial intelligence technologies. The collaboration includes a research center, the Infosys Topaz – Columbia University Enterprise AI Center, led by Columbia Engineering. Infosys said the center is designed to help its customers accelerate AI-first innovations and support responsible deployment of generative AI and agentic AI technologies at…

Kyndryl on October 1, 2026, announced the opening of its first U.S. AI Innovation Lab, located in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, and said it expects the investment to create as many as 300 highly skilled jobs in AI, technology consulting and design engineering over the next four years. The facility, which Kyndryl calls the AI Innovation Lab in Dallas, is located in Frisco, according to a statement from Frisco Mayor Mark Hill included in the announcement. Hill said Kyndryl could have chosen any…

Honda announced on October 1, 2026, that its U.S.-based space development team is engaging with Redwire to develop a robotics solution for future commercial space stations, pairing the Honda multi-fingered robotic hand with Redwire's STAARK robotic arm and experiment locker technology for research operations in orbit. Honda says the solution aims to increase research capacity while reducing the crew time astronauts spend on experiments and laboratory tasks. The announcement, issued from…

An AI hallucination is a fluent output that is unsupported by the available evidence, inconsistent with reality, or fabricated by the model. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

Hansa Biopharma AB announced a partnership with Cradle on October 1, 2026, deploying Cradle's end-to-end platform across Hansa's discovery pipeline to design, optimize, and advance novel therapeutic candidates. Cradle builds an AI-driven protein design and engineering platform for biologics. The companies said they aim to accelerate the development of new therapeutics for patients with severe autoimmune diseases, and the announcement states that Hansa is deploying the platform to develop novel…

Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics and physical AI company, and FORT Robotics, a safety platform company, signed a memorandum of understanding on October 1, 2026, establishing a strategic partnership around the safety infrastructure of Digit 5, Agility's next-generation humanoid robot, the companies announced. The agreement includes a jointly developed off-robot interface called the Offboard Safety Bridge. Offboard Safety Bridge and Operating Framework The partnership deepens a multi-year…