Artificial Intelligence

Cannes – October 16, 2026 -- NetShort, a global short-drama platform available in more than 170 countries and over 17 languages, is using MIPCOM Cannes to recruit international partners for original short-drama production and distribution.

North America leads a geographically diversified audience base

The platform serves millions of viewers daily. North America is its largest market, while Europe, Japan and South Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America each make meaningful contributions to its business.

Audience data feeds a loop between writers and viewers

NetShort combines in-house screenwriting and production teams, external creative partnerships and audience data. Insights into pacing, characters and emotional payoffs guide development. After release, audience responses inform future productions. The company says this loop strengthens human creative judgment rather than replacing it.

Mountain View – October 16, 2026 -- Cyfendo, a Silicon Valley application-security startup, has launched an AI platform that investigates software vulnerabilities and prepares tested patches for small businesses, as the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded about $20.88 billion in reported losses across 1,008,597 complaints.

Cyfendo reports four critical issues per scanned codebase

According to Cyfendo's own scan data, the company finds an average of four critical-severity issues per codebase, and roughly seven in ten findings are rated high or critical. The company states these results come from projects it scanned, not a representative survey of business applications.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- Travelers will let AI monitor hotel rates (63%) and translate in real time (56%), but only 44% want it planning itineraries and 41% want it personalizing their room, according to a Mews survey of 3,250 travelers.

The dividing line is whether a task is a chore or a choice. Price alerts and translation require accuracy and speed rather than personal knowledge of the guest. Itineraries and room setup are personal, and 57% of respondents would rather stay in control of their trip than hand decisions to an AI acting on their behalf.

Guests accept AI on shared data but resist inferred data

Travelers are more comfortable with AI using information they knowingly gave a hotel: 61% accept stated preferences and 56% accept past stay history. Acceptance falls for data collected about them, to 43% for online behavior and 34% for external and social data.

Miami – October 16, 2026 -- OutRival's enterprise AI show "The New Normal" has published 13 episodes, recorded 30 and set a target of 100 recorded episodes by 2027, with a weekly Thursday release schedule confirmed through next year.

OutRival, the Miami-based company building AI digital workers for voice, SMS and email, presents the show. Guests include leaders from Marriott Vacations Worldwide, Azamara Cruises, Southern New Hampshire University, Western Governors University, Miami Dade College, Dallas College and the U.S. Department of Labor. The institutions in the first 13 episodes serve more than one million students a year, plus millions of travelers.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- CGI is advocating "continuous organizational sensing," an AI-based approach that replaces periodic surveys, workshops and retrospective reports as the way leaders track employee adoption of transformation programs.

Existing data sources go unused during transformations

The core problem is timing, not volume. Collaboration platforms, help desk tickets, training feedback, meeting transcripts and open-text comments all carry signs of how change is unfolding. Organizations often analyze them only after the fact, or leave them untapped because of privacy and sensitivity constraints.

CGI lists four blind spots in traditional change management: data that is delayed, fragmented across systems, open to individual interpretation, and analyzed manually after the fact.

Global – October 15, 2026 -- Some 64% of organizations surveyed in CGI's 2026 Voice of Our Clients insights intend to use AI in core business processes, versus 17% in administrative functions and 15% in IT-only applications. CGI cites the figures as it argues that insurers should treat rating as a connected pricing life cycle rather than an automation task.

Pricing cycles are shrinking from months to days or hours

CGI says traditional rate changes can take days, weeks or even months because sophisticated models require extensive analysis, validation and implementation. Insurers now need to model, test and implement changes in days or, in some cases, hours. Legacy systems force teams to move data among separate tools to test rates, which lengthens cycles.

Europe – October 15, 2026 -- 75% of banks are exploring agentic AI, yet 39% remain in the proof-of-concept phase, according to CGI's latest Voice of Our Clients research. CGI argues that lenders must now prepare for customers who delegate product selection to AI agents.

APIs replace the app as the bank's front door

CGI says AI agents will compare, calculate and negotiate based on structured product information, reliable APIs, transparent pricing and lending criteria that software can interpret, rather than on app design. An agent could assess a bank's offering in milliseconds, reject its API and move on to a competitor. CGI frames API quality as a business capability and a source of competitive advantage, not only an IT metric.

New York – October 15, 2026 -- Gartner has named Deloitte a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies, and the firm was also recognized in all seven Use Cases of the companion 2026 Critical Capabilities report.

Deloitte earns placement across all seven Gartner Use Cases

Gartner singled out Deloitte in four of the seven Use Case categories: AI-Driven Marketing Innovation, Digital Commerce & CX Overhaul, Website & Digital Product Design, and Data-Driven Performance Marketing. The Magic Quadrant was published on 25 August 2026 (ID G00841300). The Critical Capabilities report followed on 26 August 2026 (ID G00850979). Both were authored by Gartner analysts Jay Wilson, Philip Black and Jen Kady.

The result adds to Deloitte's earlier placement as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Services.

Irvine, Calif. – October 15, 2026 -- Getac Technology Corporation will present an end-to-end public safety lineup at booth 1501 at the IACP Annual Conference & Exposition in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 24–27, led by a new release of its Getac Video Suite evidence management platform and Copilot+ PC rugged devices.

Video Suite adds modules for officer review, mobile evidence capture and plate recognition

The latest Video Suite release extends the platform beyond video collection and management. Officer Review is a configurable quality-improvement tool that uses randomized data tailored to an agency's policies and objectives. The Evidence OnSite Mobile App lets officers capture and classify video and photos on department-issued phones and give community members a QR code to submit evidence.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Forty percent of U.S. hiring managers have interviewed a candidate later found to be using a fake identity, up from 31% in 2025, according to a new survey from verification platform Checkr.

The report, The Hiring Hoax 2026: Fraud Doesn't End at the Offer, is based on responses from 3,000 U.S. managers involved in hiring within the previous 12 months. The online survey ran Sept. 11-16, 2026, through a third-party platform.

Fraud training jumps to 71% of HR teams, but confidence stays at 23%

Formal fraud training among HR teams has risen from 17% to 71%. Only 23% of managers are extremely confident their hiring process would catch a fraudulent candidate.