Artificial Intelligence

Tucson – October 15, 2026 -- Siensmetrica, Inc. has changed its name to Tessa AI, Inc. effective October 7, aligning the company with the brand of its AI research evaluation platform, Tessa, and signaling a push beyond paper scoring into tools for the full lifecycle of scientific research.

Tessa AI has served biomedical users since a May 2026 launch

Since its May 2026 launch, the Tessa platform has been used by researchers, clinicians, and biopharma professionals to evaluate biomedical studies. Each score comes with the evidence behind it. The company said customers, partners, and its own team already called it Tessa.

The former name was a coined word meaning roughly "knowledge measurement," reflecting the company's origin as a system for scoring published research. Siensmetrica.com now redirects to tessaai.co.

Oxford – October 15, 2026 -- Brainomix has partnered with the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) to test how patients and caregivers respond when its FDA-cleared, CE-marked e-Lung quantitative CT analysis is built into clinicians' assessment workflow for pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and other fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILD).

Patient research targets how CT metrics shape treatment conversations

The multi-phase initiative will examine how objective quantitative CT metrics could improve clinicians' understanding of disease change over time. It will also assess how patients experience and understand those insights.

Austin – October 15, 2026 -- Oracle NetSuite launched NetSuite QuickStart, a free AI-first financial platform for early-stage technology startups in the United States, with setup that takes less than 10 minutes.

Founders can connect a bank account, create a first invoice and begin viewing financials within that window, according to the company. The platform skips the traditional implementation process in favor of AI-powered self-service setup.

QuickStart automates core finance functions with embedded AI agents

Embedded AI and teams of AI agents handle accounting, banking, accounts receivable, accounts payable and subscription management. The system imports, matches, categorizes and reconciles transactions from connected bank and credit card accounts.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Zipline has launched ZipCoach, an embedded AI capability that analyzes more than 300 performance, operational and behavioral data signals to generate store-specific coaching actions for multi-location retailers.

ZipCoach links frontline behavior to store-level results

The engine connects frontline and operational behaviors, external variables and business outcomes to learn what drives success at each individual store. It then flags improvement opportunities unique to each location and delivers personalized guidance to field leaders and store managers.

Zipline CEO and Co-Founder Melissa Wong said every brand's fleet follows a performance bell curve, with a few stores executing brilliantly, a few struggling and most in the middle. In her view, the gap stems from missing historical knowledge, context and next steps rather than talent. ZipCoach is designed to carry what top stores know to the rest of the fleet.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- The Rockefeller Foundation and OpenAI Foundation have launched Cities Deliver: AI Solutions for Public Services, a $50 million initiative that will award grants of $500,000 to $2 million to organizations helping city governments deploy artificial intelligence, with a target of reaching up to 100 million urban residents.

Global open call runs from October 14 to November 29, 2026

The call is open to eligible nonprofit and civil society institutions that work with city governments. Every project must be led by an eligible organization, include a committed city government partner and serve a charitable purpose. Applicants who advance from the initial submission will be invited to a next selection stage.

Taipei – October 14, 2026 -- The 2026 Taiwan Innotech Expo (TIE) recorded more than 50,000 visits over three days, with attendees from 64 countries, before concluding on September 19.

Twelve government agencies co-organize three-pavilion expo

TIE ran under the theme "AI-Powered Innovation | Driving a Sustainable Future". It was co-organized by 12 government agencies and included three pavilions plus an Invention Competition Area. Exhibits covered energy, cybersecurity, healthcare and disaster prevention, with an emphasis on practical applications and industry adoption.

Innovation Economy Pavilion targets semiconductors and smart manufacturing

The Innovation Economy Pavilion showcased technologies in semiconductors, smart manufacturing, net-zero sustainability and precision health, along with emerging cross-sector applications. It focused on how AI can address industry needs.

Vancouver – October 14, 2026 -- TELUS Digital has signed on as an implementation partner for Parloa, the Germany-founded agentic customer experience (CX) platform, giving its 83,000+ team members across 35+ countries a new AI agent offering for enterprise clients.

Under the arrangement, TELUS Digital will introduce prospective and current clients to Parloa's AI agent platform and help put it into production at scale. Enterprises can contract directly with Parloa for the platform, and separately engage TELUS Digital for implementation, integration, change management, managed services and other professional services.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- Bind AI has launched publicly as an AI workforce for insurance, backed by $10 million in venture funding from Bonfire Ventures and other VCs. The company says it is already live with hundreds of insurance agencies and touching billions of dollars in commercial premium.

Bind AI automates submission intake, quoting, proposals and binding

The platform handles the full workflow from quote to bind on brokers' behalf. Bind AI says this saves agencies hundreds of hours per month.

The pitch rests on a time imbalance. Agents and brokers sell roughly 90% of business insurance in the United States, yet spend only about 10% of their time with clients. The rest goes to rekeying submissions, chasing carriers for quotes, assembling proposals and processing binds.

Toronto – October 14, 2026 -- Thomson Reuters is rolling out the next generation of CoCounsel Legal to customers in more than 90 countries and territories through 2026. The upgrade adds a Multinational Profile that pulls legal content from more than 100 countries and territories into a single research workflow.

Multinational Profile keeps cross-border research inside one platform

Until now, lawyers researching a cross-border question had to leave CoCounsel Legal and reconcile information from several jurisdictions and sources. Thomson Reuters says the new profile removes that step. Teams can research legal requirements across countries, compare key differences, flag issues that may need local advice, and trace each finding to its underlying source.

Chicago – October 14, 2026 -- Choreo, LLC has named Gabriel Rodriguez, a former Senior Vice President of Technology at LPL Financial, as Chief Technology Officer, tasking him with building the technology foundation for the wealth management firm's next phase of growth.

Rodriguez reports to CEO Jason Van de Loo from Charlotte

Rodriguez will report to Chief Executive Officer Jason Van de Loo and join the executive leadership team. He will be based in Choreo's Charlotte, North Carolina office.

Mandate centers on a connected platform and AI-driven advisor capacity

Rodriguez will create a connected platform that helps advisor teams deliver coordinated tax and wealth advice consistently as the firm scales. He will use AI to expand advisor capacity. He will also strengthen the planning, reporting and client engagement tools advisors use daily, backed by training to support adoption.