Digital Transformation

Queens, New York – October 14, 2026 -- Vaughn College hosted the sixth annual International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (ICDTA) on October 9 and 10, drawing researchers from more than 30 countries to a hybrid event on digital technologies, soft computing and intelligent systems.

Plenary speakers from Predictum and IBM open the in-person program on October 9

The morning plenary featured Wayne J. Levin, president and CEO of Predictum Inc., and Dr. Philip Ramsey, the company's vice president of data science and training. They argued that bad research costs the US economy several billion dollars every year and outlined steps to reverse the trend.

Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, principal research scientist at IBM, closed the session with a talk on efficient large language model (LLM) inference. Inference is the process of generating text, code or data from a prompt without changing the model's learned weights.

Tokyo – October 14, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Boston-based Abside Networks, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding on October 14, 2026, to jointly study high-altitude platform station (HAPS) communications and AI-driven network control for next-generation infrastructure.

Joint studies target wide-area, high-capacity HAPS connectivity

The two companies will examine wide-area, high-capacity and massive-connectivity communications via HAPS, along with network control and data utilization. The MOU covers joint technical study toward future collaboration. It does not specify financial terms, deployment timelines or commercial commitments.

Torrington – October 14, 2026 -- Therap Services has connected smart health monitors directly to electronic health records through its Therap Connect platform, removing manual entry of vital statistics for human services agencies.

Therap Connect captures vital signs, sleep and body composition data from smart scales, sleep mats and blood pressure monitors

The platform automatically records biometric readings from connected devices, including vital signs, body composition, sleep metrics and ambient environment conditions. Therap says manual logging creates administrative delays and raises the risk of entry errors. Data goes straight into the Therap system, giving care teams immediate visibility into health trends.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- Lantern has launched Glo, an AI-native platform that replaces the traditional applicant tracking system (ATS), staffing CRM, client portal, candidate portal and disconnected recruiting tools with a single product for staffing and recruiting firms.

Glo is on display at the American Staffing Association's Staffing World in Denver, Colorado, running October 12-14, at Booth 314.

Glo ranks recruiter work by urgency and business impact

Lantern positions Glo against software that only records past events, such as a candidate applying, a job closing or a note being typed. Glo observes signals across candidates, jobs, clients, contracts, compliance and revenue. It reasons about urgency and business impact, ranks the work that matters most and helps complete it.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Collective X Health (CX), a women's health and performance intelligence platform, has emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $3.2 million pre-seed round co-led by Council Capital and Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund.

SoGal Ventures, Emerson Collective, Muse Capital and Segal Ventures also participated. The platform is live, with Human Powered Health and Altra Running as founding customers licensing its women's health intelligence via API for health, performance and recovery insights.

CX targets a research gap in AI-driven health products

CX argues that AI models trained on historical clinical research default to male data. Women were not required in NIH-funded clinical trials until 1993. According to the company, leading AI models failed 60% of questions on a recent women's health benchmark.

Boston – October 14, 2026 -- Bouygues Telecom Wholesale is adopting the Connectbase Mplify API adaptor within The Connected World platform, automating eligibility, pricing and product data exchanges with its operator clients, Connectbase announced.

Adaptor translates between Bouygues systems and Mplify LSO APIs

The integration standardizes access to Bouygues Telecom Wholesale's workflows. It simplifies interactions with operator customers that implement Mplify Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs. These industry-standard APIs support service orchestration across the full service lifecycle and let providers automate the buying and selling of connectivity.

West Palm Beach – October 14, 2026 -- SMArtX Advisory Solutions will embed its Manager Marketplace, proposal generation, trading and billing technology directly inside AdvizorStack's advisor environment under a new partnership targeting independent registered investment advisers (RIAs).

AdvizorStack's RIA network gets native access to SMArtX tools

AdvizorStack's network of independent RIAs will use the SMArtX capabilities within AdvizorStack's own platform rather than through a separate, third-party system.

AdvizorStack provides technology and operational support to help independent RIAs launch, transition and scale. It pairs hands-on consulting with a curated technology stack and has partnerships with custodians including Charles Schwab, Fidelity and Raymond James.

Conshohocken – October 14, 2026 -- Suvoda has made Sofia, its AI assistant on the Suvoda Platform, available for all new clinical trials using Suvoda RTSM/IRT or Suvoda eCOA, giving sponsors, CROs and sites faster access to trial data and the ability to act on it.

Sofia first launched with a group of early adopter companies that helped shape the product. The rollout extends it to every new trial on the two Suvoda products.

Sofia executes authorized system actions, not just queries

For authorized users, Sofia can carry out system actions in a single conversation. Before acting, it summarizes what it will do and asks for confirmation. Every action is attributed to the requesting user, governed by existing roles and permissions, and recorded in a full audit trail.

Vancouver – October 14, 2026 -- GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) has released gtinfetch.ai, a GTIN resolver that lets AI agents check any of 84 million barcodes in a single call, which the company describes as the largest open resolver on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

GreenCore targets grocery agentic commerce in 20 countries

The service runs on Microsoft Azure and the Cloudflare edge and answers in milliseconds from wherever the agent sits. GSC built it for retail grocery agentic commerce transactions at scale across 20 countries.

GSC says $2 trillion of annual grocery procurement is about to move through AI agents, with every order tied to a GTIN. In its view, agentic procurement drifts without a second check. gtinfetch confirms the GTIN before the order is placed, then settles payment in the same call.

Dublin, Calif. – October 14, 2026 -- TriNet (NYSE: TNET) is rolling out four platform upgrades for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), adding leave management, applicant tracking and expense control, plus expanded AI assistance, to its HR platform in phases.

TriNet Leave, built on the Cocoon acquisition, is rolling out in phases

TriNet Leave, powered by Cocoon, follows TriNet's acquisition of Cocoon earlier this year. It combines Cocoon's technology with TriNet's leave administration expertise in one experience connected to the TriNet platform. Employers can manage leave requests, compliance obligations, claims tracking and return-to-work processes in a single workflow.