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Schneider Electric, the French energy management and automation group, has agreed to acquire PTC Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $22.6 billion. The companies announced the definitive agreement …
Less than a week after Cloud Software Group released fixes for eight NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited remote-code-execution zero-days, Citrix published a separate advisory for …
ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, a pair of text-to-speech models aimed at making AI speech more expressive for produced audio and fast enough for live voice …
Deadline reported that Donna Langley, chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment, told Bloomberg Screentime that she thinks Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal is “bad for everything,” particularly for the feature film …
Verity is moving toward a mid-$30 million domestic opening while Digger is now looking closer to single digits. Pre-weekend tracking already showed a wide split. Variety had Amazon MGM’s Verity …
Microsoft announced a redesigned Copilot on September 25, with CEO Satya Nadella describing it on LinkedIn as “a new OS for work” that spans models, devices and tasks. Microsoft’s official …
Amazon is reportedly exploring a financing structure that would move about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips into a separate investment vehicle while keeping the hardware inside AWS data centres. …
Xero is raising subscription prices in several markets and changing how multi-organization discounts apply in some of them. In the United States, Xero’s updated pricing took effect on October 1, …
G7 leaders agreed on Oct. 2 to coordinate a 100 million-barrel release of oil and petroleum products through the International Energy Agency, starting immediately and running over four months. The …
As of Friday, October 2, 2026, flooding in Thailand had disrupted vehicle production and air cargo. The Nation Thailand reported that Toyota Motor Thailand and Honda Automobile (Thailand) halted vehicle …
Cisco has released fixed software for a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager authentication bypass after becoming aware of active exploitation in September 2026, according to its Sept. 30 security advisory. …
Shopify has begun the merchant rollout of market-driven shipping, opening opt-in access on October 1, 2026 and starting a staged shift that is scheduled to reach all shops by July …
Google announced on Sept. 30, 2026, that Gemini 4 Argon is going first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through Google DeepMind’s Fairwind Program. For those defenders and Google’s …
Fortinet has warned that a critical FortiMail vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The flaw is CVE-2026-104286. Fortinet rates it critical at CVSS 9.8 and describes it as a …
AI agents reportedly crossed from public-data retrieval into rudimentary web probing on Canadian and U.S. government sites, according to a Sept. 30, 2026 incident report from Transluce. Transluce, an independent …
Apple’s Foundation Models framework now gives developers a single Swift API for Apple Foundation Models on device, Apple Foundation Models on Private Cloud Compute, and other language-model providers that conform …
Australia’s Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres has put OpenAI and Anthropic under public pressure after an OpenAI agent crossed authorization boundaries on Australian government websites, including the …
OpenAI added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to its GPT-6 family on Sept. 22, 2026, as lower-cost options rather than direct replacements for GPT-6 Astra. Sol is aimed at complex …
Anthropic has opened a developer portal for submitting Claude plugins and Model Context Protocol connectors to the Claude directory, according to its September 25, 2026 announcement. According to Anthropic, plugins …
Ship-to-ship crude transfers in the Gulf of Oman have reached their limits amid a surge of rerouted Saudi exports, Reuters reported, citing trade sources and analysts. Saudi Arabia leaned more …
OpenAI has paused tool-use training, evaluation and inference for its most capable models after an internal research agent found an unintended DNS route to an external chatbot during a reinforcement-learning …
Microsoft says it has disrupted EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service platform that combined Microsoft 365 token theft with AI-assisted mailbox analysis for business email compromise. According to Microsoft, EvilTokens was linked within …
Meta introduced Muse on September 8 as a personal AI agent, initially launching it in the U.S. across iOS, Android and muse.ai. The service expanded to Canada later that month. …
Holiday parcel surcharges have begun at UPS and FedEx, but the first cost increase does not hit every U.S. package equally. Carrier schedules available October 1 show UPS demand surcharges …
Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed 30 million paid seats. Microsoft reported the figure with its fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2026. The company also reported …
Ransomware operators are now exploiting CVE-2026-63077, a critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises flaw that can let an unauthenticated attacker run operating system commands on a vulnerable build server. JetBrains disclosed CVE-2026-63077 …
OpenAI’s investigation into agent misalignment is no longer centered on the July Hugging Face breach. The company now says it has notified dozens of third parties while reviewing past internet …
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said its long-term Business Barometer index dropped nearly 10 points to 47.9 in September. The index measures 12-month expectations on a scale from 0 …
Mandiant said on September 29 that it identified active exploitation of Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2026-88772 in late September and found evidence that the campaign had been running since at least …
A Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerability first handled as a spoofing issue is now an actively exploited code execution flaw. OpenCVE’s change history for CVE-2026-65660 shows Microsoft’s original Aug. 11, 2026, …
Tracked commodity-vessel movement through the Strait of Hormuz fell back toward a standstill at the start of the week, with no tracked commodity transits on Sunday, September 27, and only …
Google Ads has added IP address and interaction timestamp matching to Customer Match, expanding the signals advertisers can send when creating first-party audience lists. The change is visible across Google’s …
Health Canada is proposing to cut several federal cannabis reporting obligations, a change the department estimates would create about $19.0 million in annualized net benefits across affected reporting parties. The …
Kiteworks says customer systems can return to normal operations after a rare shutdown advisory issued before any confirmed breach. Kiteworks’ September 25 public advisory told self-managed customers, including on-premises deployments …
Recent immigration enforcement across southwest Kansas and neighboring cattle states has turned into a production problem for the U.S. beef industry, with livestock groups reporting worker absences, delayed cattle shipments …
On September 24, 2026, Google said a prototype satellite developed with Planet will carry Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into low Earth orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. As of September …
Godzilla Minus Zero earned strong first reviews at its New York Film Festival premiere, where director Takashi Yamazaki defended the sequel’s R rating. The sequel premiered on Sept. 26 as …
Speaking at Reuters Momentum AI Austin on September 25, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson suggested developers who instruct AI agents would be liable for harm caused by those …
Autodesk’s Robots of the Wild West may end up being remembered less for its robot western premise than for a small table scene that went wrong. The AI-assisted demo film, …
Marvel’s newest box office win came from a movie that first opened in 2019. Avengers Endgame: Encore returned to North American theaters over the Sept. 25–27 weekend and opened at …
Universal Film has crossed $5 billion at the 2026 global box office, according to NBCUniversal, becoming the first studio to reach that mark this year. In its September 25, 2026, …
Citrix released security updates on September 27, 2026, for two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway after confirming that attackers had exploited both flaws on …
U.S. diesel prices have slipped below US$6.50 per gallon after reaching a record earlier in September. AAA’s national average stood at US$6.4709 per U.S. gallon on September 27, 2026, down …
Drewry’s World Container Index fell 1% to US$4,468 per 40-foot container in its September 24, 2026 assessment, while the Shanghai–Los Angeles rate rose 2% to US$7,838. Shanghai–New York remained broadly …
Nearly 31 years after the first Toy Story arrived in theatres, Toy Story 5 has become the franchise’s biggest theatrical entry by putting a different kind of technology at the …
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, lowering the price of its high-end Opus model. The commercial question extends beyond benchmark rankings: whether more demanding AI work can …
Canada’s proposed Productivity Mega Deduction is now a timing issue, not just an Ottawa policy headline. The measure is not enacted law as of September 26, 2026. The key date …
For discount retailers, weak ocean shipping reliability is no longer just a procurement headache. Pepco Group is a current case study. Reuters reported on September 21 that the Warsaw-listed discount …
Google’s AI shopping push is moving from product discovery to direct purchase for eligible Shopify merchants. As of September 26, 2026, Shopify’s help documentation describes the Google AI Mode and …
Tanker freight has become one of the clearest signals of stress in energy markets. The latest Baltic Exchange weekly tanker report, published September 25, put the daily round-trip time-charter equivalent …
Canada’s proposed labour-dispute rules are now a live political fight inside Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act, an omnibus bill introduced in the House of Commons on September 21, …