Artificial Intelligence

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Gong has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration (RAO) for the second consecutive year, placing highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision among 13 evaluated vendors.

Gong is one of only four Leaders among 13 vendors evaluated

The report, authored by Steve Rietberg, Dan Gottlieb and Alyssa Cruz and dated 13 October 2026, describes RAO as "the primary system of seller action and a single source of truth for sales interactions." Gong attributes its placement to its Revenue AI platform, which combines the Gong Revenue Graph, specialized AI agents and purpose-built applications. Revenue teams can run prospecting, deal execution, forecasting and coaching on one system.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- Corporate travel manager ALTOUR has unveiled ALTOUR iQ, an in-house conversational AI platform that lets travel managers query program data in plain language, with broader market availability planned for Q1 2027.

The platform is in a phased commercial rollout following its debut at Business Travel Show America 2026. ALTOUR iQ was an Innovation Faceoff finalist at the show. Haley Rossow, ALTOUR's Senior Director of Global Business Intelligence, presented it on October 14 in New York.

ALTOUR iQ replaces dashboards with predictive and scenario analysis

ALTOUR says the tool moves beyond conventional dashboards and historical reporting. It delivers predictive insights, scenario analysis and actionable intelligence in seconds. Users no longer have to work through complex reports or fragmented data.

The platform is built around four functions:

San Antonio – October 16, 2026 -- PayrollOrg will host its 39th Annual Educational Institutions Payroll Conference (EIPC) October 18–21, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio, gathering payroll professionals from colleges and universities across the United States to address AI, legislation and financial compliance.

AI and regulatory change drive the EIPC agenda

Dan Maddux, Executive Director of PayrollOrg, said higher education payroll teams "can't afford to fall behind" as regulations evolve and artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace.

Sessions will cover AI in payroll, federal and state legislative developments, payroll and data governance, nonresident alien taxation, and IRS fringe benefit regulations specific to higher education.

Chennai – October 16, 2026 -- Zifo has been named a Gamechanger in Healthcare & Pharma in the enterprise segment at the Nasscom AI Gamechangers Awards 2026, for an AI service accelerator that speeds up master data creation for laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Zifo's accelerator targets manual master data preparation in LIMS projects

Master data is foundational to configuring and implementing a LIMS. The source information is often scattered across PDFs, specifications, procedures and spreadsheets. Finding it, checking it and converting it into structured master data objects takes significant manual effort. The work must also meet the consistency, traceability and auditability that regulated environments expect.

Irvine – October 16, 2026 -- MFour Data Research named Sean Miller Vice President, First-Party Data Engineering, with a mandate to bring its entire engineering stack in-house, from data collection through the company's own AI model. Miller reports to Chief Technology Officer Aaron Wepler.

Miller takes charge of all first-party data engineering at MFour

Miller will lead engineering for all of MFour's first-party data, which consumers share through transparent consent. The data covers purchases and receipts, app usage, web browsing, location and store visits, desktop activity and LLM conversations. Each stream is connected to the same consumer's own survey answers.

MFour says AI now makes the in-housing work possible in days, not months. The foundation stays the same: behavioral and survey data collected with transparent consent and combined on one platform.

Delray Beach – October 16, 2026 -- The global Causal AI market is projected to grow from USD 158.7 million in 2026 to USD 761.4 million by 2031, a 36.8% CAGR, according to MarketsandMarkets. The 2026 estimate is up from USD 110.7 million in 2025.

Software holds 77.8% of 2026 revenue as buyers abandon one-off modeling projects

Software is estimated to account for 77.8% of the market in 2026. Enterprises are moving from isolated causal modeling projects to platforms and point solutions that connect to existing data estates and serve multiple decision workflows. MarketsandMarkets says this shift strengthens recurring revenue and increases deployment scale.

Broad platforms are adding counterfactual simulation, intervention analysis, optimization and agentic execution. Point solutions are gaining traction in life sciences, marketing measurement, IT operations and industrial analytics.

Santa Barbara – October 16, 2026 -- Artera, a healthcare patient-communications provider, ranked No. 3,000 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies, reporting 102 percent three-year revenue growth and marking its seventh consecutive appearance.

Artera joins TIME's 2026 HealthTech list with a 'Very High Performance' score

TIME named Artera to its World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2026 in the "Health Information and Management" category. TIME worked with data firm Statista, which evaluated companies on financial performance, reputation and online engagement.

CHICAGO – October 16, 2026 -- Eleven vendors are new or returning on Tercera's fifth annual Tercera 30 ranking, the most turnover the growth equity firm has recorded in its Market Anchors category, as Anthropic, OpenAI and Palantir join that group for the first time.

The 2026-2027 list ranks the software and AI vendors and partner ecosystems with the greatest services growth potential for IT services firms. Tercera, an investment and advisory firm for AI and technology service firms, said the list reflects the shift across IT services in the AI era.

Single-vendor focus halves to 5% of IT services firms in Tercera survey

In Tercera's July 2026 survey of 378 technology services leaders, only 5% of firms focused on a single software partner, down from 10% a year earlier. Firms are moving away from single-vendor platform implementations. They now orchestrate data, systems and agents around domain processes and defined business outcomes.

Las Vegas – October 16, 2026 -- Rareview Capital LLC and Tuttle Capital Management have launched the Tuttle - Rareview Humanoid Robotics ETF (HOID), an actively managed fund that targets both humanoid robot developers and the technologies inside them.

HOID splits the robotics supply chain into "Brains" and "Body"

The strategy covers the "Brains": artificial intelligence, software and semiconductors. It also covers the "Body": sensors, actuators, batteries and other essential components. The fund extends beyond robot manufacturers to the suppliers behind them.

HOID may hold U.S. and international companies. These include firms in commercial production and those building fully functional prototypes that are moving toward commercialization. Portfolio weights are rebalanced at least quarterly.

SAN ANTONIO – October 16, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has awarded Netradyne its 2026 Global Product Leadership Recognition in commercial vehicle video telematics, citing a platform that analyzes 100% of drive time with up to 99% AI alert accuracy.

The analyst firm scored the company on strategy effectiveness and strategy execution, and said Netradyne performed strongly on both. Frost & Sullivan credited its product innovation, operational efficiency, customer acquisition and consolidated telematics offering.

Netradyne bundles video safety, GPS, fuel and compliance tools into one subscription

The platform combines AI-powered video safety, real-time edge AI analytics, automated driver coaching and performance analytics. It also covers GPS tracking, fuel analysis, maintenance insights and hours of service compliance. Fleets get these functions through a single device, interface and subscription model, with modular hardware and software.