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Australian AI Inquiry Backs Independent Safety Checks

A parliamentary committee recommends independent safety checks for AI companies, early model access for security agencies and a review of copyright rules.

October 13, 2026

HyLight Raises €13 Million for Hydrogen Airship Inspections

French startup HyLight raised €13 million to scale its autonomous hydrogen airships that inspect power lines, pipelines and railways with AI defect detection.

October 13, 2026

Turbo Law Expands AI Workspace Across Civil Litigation

Turbo Law has expanded its AI workspace to all civil litigation practice areas after surpassing 3,000 active matters.

October 13, 2026

Salesforce Agrees to Acquire Loops for Tableau Analytics

Salesforce signed an agreement to acquire Israeli analytics startup Loops and plans to integrate its technology and team into Tableau. The price was not disclosed, but the deal is estimated at about $30 million.

October 13, 2026

New York Times Joins SPUR Publisher AI Coalition

More than 40 publishers and industry groups have joined SPUR, bringing the coalition to 80 members across more than 20 countries.

October 13, 2026

Freshworks agrees to acquire Torii for AI spend governance

Freshworks agreed to acquire Israeli SaaS management company Torii, extending Freshservice into software and AI spend governance; terms were not disclosed.

October 13, 2026

HealthpointCapital Invests in Surgical Software Company Ospitek

HealthpointCapital has made a significant investment in Ospitek, which provides AI software for surgical operations and patient flow. Financial terms were not disclosed.

October 13, 2026

VoteMate Adds USAFacts Data to AI Ballot Assistant

VoteMate is integrating USAFacts government data and analysis into its AI ballot assistant to answer voter questions about the economy, health care, education and government spending.

October 13, 2026

Prologue Medicines names Stephen Harrison chief scientific officer

Stephen Harrison will direct Prologue Medicines' scientific strategy and the development of its DELVE machine learning platform and drug pipeline.

October 13, 2026

Inside Real Estate Connects BoldTrail to ChatGPT and Claude

BoldTrail MCP lets real estate agents use ChatGPT and Claude to manage contacts, tasks, appointments and client communications through plain language requests.

October 13, 2026

ActivTrak Adds MCP Access for Claude and ChatGPT

ActivTrak MCP lets customers query workforce data through Claude and ChatGPT alongside information from business systems.

October 13, 2026

Anthropic Says New Defenses Cut Claude Distillation by Up to 99%

Anthropic says early evidence suggests new safeguards cut the Claude reasoning data harvested by distillers by around 90 to 99% on its platform.

October 13, 2026

NTT DATA Reportedly in Final Talks to Build Anthropic Data Center in Japan

NTT DATA is reportedly in final talks to build Anthropic its first dedicated Japan data center in Osaka, at a cost of up to about $6.3 billion, the Nikkei reported.

October 13, 2026

Scientists Call for International Oversight of Cyber Capable AI

Hundreds of scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, call for an international body to set AI containment standards and keep a registry of security incidents.

October 13, 2026

Abacum Launches Modeler AI Agent for Finance Teams

Abacum has released Modeler, an AI agent that builds financial models from natural language instructions or existing spreadsheets.

October 13, 2026

IFS Softeon Launches Fulfillment Flow for Warehouse Operations

Fulfillment Flow uses AI agents and current warehouse data to identify operational issues, explain their causes and recommend actions to managers.

October 13, 2026

IFS Launches Intelligence for Industrial Operations

IFS Intelligence connects operational data across IFS and third party systems, letting workers ask questions, approve actions and delegate workflows through one interface.

October 13, 2026

Mashreq Pilots IBM Bob for Software Engineering

Mashreq is piloting IBM Bob for integration engineering; IBM says early results showed up to a 60% to 70% cut in time spent on design and troubleshooting.

October 13, 2026

Hyundai BAYON Adds Perplexity and SoundHound Voice AI in India

Hyundai's BAYON SUV for India includes a generative AI voice assistant using Perplexity and SoundHound technology. Bookings are open ahead of its October 26 launch.

October 13, 2026

Ubitium raises $14 million for universal physical AI processor

Ubitium raised $14 million to commercialize a processor that combines sensing, AI inference and machine control. Evaluation units for its UB410 chip are planned for 2027.

October 13, 2026