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On Oct. 20, U.S. time, OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, which develops an operations management platform for biopharmaceutical companies. The company will integrate it into its life sciences product suite, “Rosalind,” broadening AI’s role from research support to development program management.

OpenAI announced improvements in coding capabilities for languages with limited training data, such as COBOL. In an evaluation of COBOL migration, accuracy reached 97.9% when the amount of reasoning was increased. We examine the “difficulty of producing the same results” behind the figure.

OpenAI announced on its official X account that it had supported efforts to address PHP vulnerabilities through the Patch the Planet initiative. We take a closer look at the collaboration connecting AI-driven discovery with fixes, disclosure, and defenses put in place beforehand.

Otter AI has reportedly raised $320 million from General Catalyst to expand its enterprise voice AI business. This article examines the significance of the funding, looking at its size and the broader shift toward turning meeting conversations into business data.

Getty Images, the U.S. photo and video provider, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on the 21st. We look at the backdrop of worsening business conditions amid intensifying competition from generative AI images and the questions surrounding the value of photography.

Mastercard has opened early access for developers to AP4M, its payment service for AI agents. Here’s a look at how it works within preapproved authority and spending limits, as well as the demo that processed nine payments.

A method of submitting a photo of a government-issued ID has been spotted in testing for Google Business Profile verification. It could join existing options such as phone and mail. Here’s what the distinction between verifying someone’s identity and confirming their connection to a business tells us about the new method.

Personal AI agents such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots handle tasks on the web for users, from comparing products and filling out forms to making purchases. SEO is shifting from building pages that get found to pages that agents can use. We examine blind spots in accessibility, bot defenses, and measurement.

In a speech to investors, German Chancellor Merz set a goal of quadrupling the country’s AI computing capacity by 2030. Also on the 20th, China established a state-owned company focused on data, underscoring the different policy approaches supporting the AI race.

Cloudflare has previewed Clairic, a document-extraction model, on Workers AI. It returns specified fields such as order numbers and invoice amounts in a single pass. We unpack the design philosophy behind its 19.3-second processing time when working alongside an LLM.

The U.S. government has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop making new purchases of DeepSeek products and services and remove them from existing systems. Third-party products using the company’s technology are also covered. We examine how “the origin of the technology” is becoming a key question in AI procurement.

Hokkaido University and others have announced plans to develop medical AI using Rapidus semiconductors in the 2-nanometer range. The project has a total cost of ¥10.5 billion and will focus on supporting surgery and diagnostic imaging. Here’s a look at the industry-academia collaboration’s goal of finding practical uses for cutting-edge chips.