Artificial Intelligence

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) found that 98% of organizations that delayed technology modernization experienced negative business impacts, according to the company's first global Modernization Report released today. The study, based on responses from 2,000 business and technology leaders across five continents and 12 industries, shows nearly half of organizations are behind schedule on modernization goals even as AI adoption becomes the dominant investment driver.

Sunnyvale – October 01, 2026 -- Synopsys projects fiscal 2027 revenue of $11.15 billion at the midpoint of guidance, a roughly 15% year-over-year increase, the company told investors at its 2026 Investor Day in New York.

The chip-design software maker also plans to repurchase approximately $1 billion of its own shares over the coming months, part of a broader commitment to return up to 50% of free cash flow to shareholders after reinvesting in the business.

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Whop introduced Economic Intelligence, a new intelligence layer that pushed combined sales up 31.8% among more than 14,000 businesses during a one-month beta test.

Beta users saw double-digit gains across key metrics

Businesses using Economic Intelligence for one month, compared with the prior month without it, recorded a 26.3% increase in unique paying customers and a 26.5% rise in transaction count, alongside the 31.8% sales growth, according to Whop.

Chicago – – September 30, 2026 -- Kin Insurance said it will allow consumers using Meta's Muse AI agent and other AI shopping agents to obtain home insurance quotes directly through its digital platform, breaking from insurers and marketplaces that are moving to block AI agent access.

Kin opens its platform while rivals erect barriers

Kin Founder and CEO Sean Harper said the company will not block Muse, arguing that AI agents represent a shopping channel poised to grow as significantly as the web itself. Harper said many home insurers still lack online quoting capabilities, a gap that limits their ability to capture traffic from AI-driven shopping tools.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- The global IT Service Management (ITSM) market is projected to grow from USD 10.96 billion in 2026 to USD 22.91 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 15.9%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The market stood at USD 9.41 billion in 2025, underscoring accelerating enterprise spending on hybrid IT and AI-enabled service delivery.

Knowledge and self-service tools post the fastest growth at 21.3% CAGR

The knowledge and self-service management segment is set to register the highest growth rate of the forecast period, driven by conversational AI, virtual agents, and automated resolution tools designed to cut repetitive Level-1 support workloads. Dashboard, reporting, and analytics tools follow with an 18.8% CAGR, reflecting enterprise demand for real-time SLA monitoring and predictive service insights. The solutions category overall is expected to grow 16.8% annually through 2031.

New York and Bath, England – – September 30, 2026 -- A joint research study by Dynamic Infrastructure and the University of Bath has found that leading frontier vision-language models do not yet deliver the robustness needed for real-world infrastructure inspection, even as more specialised AI approaches perform substantially better on the same task.

Scottsdale, Ariz. – September 29, 2026 -- Appspace unveiled Appspace Context, a new architecture that lets workplace software adapt in real time to an employee's role, location, schedule, and surrounding conditions, at its WOW26 conference.

Appspace links digital and physical workplace data into one context layer

The platform draws on signals from communications, content, spaces, visitor logs, signage, and connected systems that companies already generate but rarely unify. CEO Pete Schmied said workplace technology has historically been configured around expected scenarios, while actual conditions such as shifting schedules, filling spaces, and arriving visitors change constantly.

Santa Clara, Calif. – – September 29, 2026 -- Forward Networks has made Forward Predict generally available, a network-change verification tool that customer IG Group says cut firewall change delivery time by roughly 95 percent and saves engineers more than 30 hours of manual work monthly.

Forward Predict verifies network changes before deployment using a mathematically accurate digital twin

The tool, built on Forward Enterprise's digital twin, models BGP, routing, path, ACL, NAT and firewall-rule changes to show connectivity, security and compliance impact before they reach production. Forward positions the capability as the verification layer required for AI agents to propose network changes safely at machine speed.

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the enterprise AI security unit of Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has entered private preview with TrendAI Vision One Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery, a service that pairs an agentic AI engine with validation from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), described as the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program.

Engine outperforms rivals on CyberGym leaderboard

The service runs on an agentic system code-named AESIR, built primarily on Anthropic models, and deployed and operated on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services. When tested against the CyberGym benchmarking framework, the engine scored higher than both single-model and other agentic systems on the leaderboard. TrendAI states internal benchmarking shows its models identify more true-positive vulnerabilities with fewer false positives than leading vulnerability scanning and static analysis tools.

New York – September 29, 2026 -- JPMorgan Chase claimed the No. 1 spot on the 2026 Fortune AIQ 75, a ranking of Fortune 500 companies generating measurable business impact from AI adoption, jointly produced by Fortune and ServiceNow.

Ranking expands to 75 companies from 50, with 36 new entrants

Building on the inaugural 2025 Fortune AIQ 50, the list grew by 50% this year, now spanning 18 sectors including Technology, Finance, Healthcare, Energy, Retail and Industrials. Alphabet, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Nvidia rounded out the top five, followed by Mastercard, Visa, Carrier Global, Cleveland-Cliffs and Microsoft to complete the top ten.