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14/10 — 21/10/2026 24 entries

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Banking and finance 21 OCT 2026

AI in payments: Short-term gains, long-term transformation

In five years’ time, will AI make payments more efficient, or will it fundamentally change how money moves around the world?

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

LHV Bank uses AI agents for customer email support

LHV Bank has gone live with agentic AI for customer email support in the UK, powered by Gradient Labs. The launch follows a proof of concept announced earlier this year and means …

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

Visa pilots AI agent payments between buyer and supplier platforms

Visa has joined forces with Bill and Billtrust to launch the first live pilot to enable trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end throu…

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

Northteq launches AI agents for equipment finance

Today, Northteq is introducing aurora Agent Suite, an all-new set of AI agents built directly into aurora, its Salesforce-native loan origination system for equipment finance.

Manufacturing 20 OCT 2026

Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups access to sovereign compute, techn…

Logistics and supply chain 19 OCT 2026

The AI forwarder of the future

Agentic process execution could change the P&L far beyond productivity, and the real gains for forwarders sit in execution quality, margin capture and a new kind of moat. “Innovat…

Government and public sector 19 OCT 2026

NYC transit agencies test AI tools to modernize infrastructure, data workflows

A new report shows how 17 companies tested tools for infrastructure inspections, maintenance planning and data management with transit agencies in the tri-state area.

Government and public sector 19 OCT 2026

Illinois rehires former chief data officer to serve as chief AI officer

Tammy Roust rejoins the state after Kader Sakkaria quietly departed the CAIO role after just a month on the job.

Manufacturing 19 OCT 2026

Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help

In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roa…

Logistics and supply chain 19 OCT 2026

Understand the agentic supply chain: 5 things CIOs must know

Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintainer account. AI agents have cha…

Agriculture and food 19 OCT 2026

Kodama nets $7m to scale physical AI for ‘intelligent forestry’

Forestry contractors face growing demand for timber, forest management, and wildfire-resilience but struggle to find and retain reliable operators. The post Kodama nets $7m to sca…

Banking and finance 19 OCT 2026

Huntington Bank partners Google Cloud for AI-powered small business operating system

The Huntington National Bank has unveiled an AI-powered operating system built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise platform.

Technology radar

Banking and Fintech 20 OCT 2026

Google Cloud outage disrupts multiple bank sites

HSBC, Revolut, Lloyds and Bank of Scotland are among some of the banks reported to have been affected by a major outage at Google Cloud

Cloud and Architecture 20 OCT 2026

GitHub Actions Runner Controller 0.15.0 Targets Reliability at Scale

GitHub has released Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.15.0, introducing reliability, scalability, and observability improvements for organisations running self-hosted GitHub Actio…

IT Strategy and Governance 20 OCT 2026

AI agents are joining the workforce, so it’s time to rethink the business plan

Enterprise AI is racing toward a consequential shift in how businesses operate. As agents take on work that used to consume the week, projects once dismissed as ‘we don’t have the…

Low-Code and No-Code 20 OCT 2026

Why we refreshed the n8n brand

A new logo, a new typeface, and a new take on our pink, built for where n8n is going.

Artificial Intelligence 20 OCT 2026

Presentation: Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray

The speakers discuss transitioning AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production systems on Kubernetes using Ray. They share operational insights on RayCluster t…

Artificial Intelligence 20 OCT 2026

Presentation: Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray

The speakers discuss transitioning AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production systems on Kubernetes using Ray. They share operational insights on RayCluster t…

Banking and Fintech 20 OCT 2026

Pay by Bank sector poised for growth says survey

Pay by Bank, the digital payment method that allows consumers to pay directly from their bank account without the use of a credit or debit card or typing a PIN, is gaining tractio…

IT Strategy and Governance 20 OCT 2026

CIOs look to accelerate digital transformation with AI

IT leaders seeking promising AI use cases may be overlooking a potential goldmine: deploying the technology to assist with major IT modernization and digital transformation initia…

Artificial Intelligence 20 OCT 2026

When ‘access denied’ becomes an agent’s next objective

One line from a recent AI incident caught my attention. Describing how an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it “d…

Artificial Intelligence 20 OCT 2026

Enterprise AI needs more than an AI engineer

Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company ann…

IT Strategy and Governance 20 OCT 2026

Closing the agent governance gap

The emerging challenge with AI agents isn’t simply preventing attacks from external rogue AI agents; it’s accounting for what your own agents are doing on the inside. AI agents ar…

Projects, PMO and Risk 20 OCT 2026

IA e Product Owner: decidere sulla base delle evidenze

L'intelligenza artificiale permette di analizzare informazioni e sviluppare nuove proposte in tempi sempre più brevi. Per il Product Owner diventa ancora più importante comprender…

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