Digital Transformation

Maple Grove, Minn. – – October 06, 2026 -- Circuit Check has acquired a partial ownership stake in QualityLine, an Israel-based AI manufacturing analytics provider, and will bundle one year of QualityLine's analytics and security features into every Circuit Check test system at no additional cost starting immediately.

Circuit Check integrates QualityLine analytics directly into its CCI Test Partner platform

CCI Test Partner, Circuit Check's test automation toolset, uses Isolated Networks technology to securely connect automated test equipment to the internet, including legacy systems that conventional IT networks cannot handle. The QualityLine integration adds a layer that correlates test results with production, inspection, repair, MES, ERP, and sensor data across stations, products, and lines, identifying failure root causes and predicting future defects.

St. Louis – – October 06, 2026 -- Edward Jones has placed No. 7 on Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance, a ranking based entirely on feedback from its more than 55,000 associates across North America.

Firm ranks No. 2 industry-wide for Certified Financial Planner professionals

Edward Jones holds the No. 2 industry position for Certified Financial Planner designees and ranks No. 1 for Financial Paraplanner Qualified Professional designees as of 2025, reflecting continued investment in advanced credentialing across its practice teams.

Over 10,000 associates joined Better Together Summits in 2025

The firm's internal collaboration events drew more than 10,000 participants last year, bringing financial advisors and support staff together to share best practices on leadership and client service.

Dallas – October 06, 2026 -- Captello has launched Intelligence Cards, a feature that returns a full CRM account record directly inside its lead capture and meeting app the instant a badge is scanned or an attendee is checked in. The tool eliminates the lag between data collection and usable intelligence that has defined event lead capture since the first badge scanner.

Reps See Account History Before Asking the First Question

When a sales rep scans a lead or checks in a meeting attendee, Intelligence Cards render six layers of context in-line with the capture form: company and account detail pulled from the connected CRM, firmographic data, open and closed opportunities, account activity and open tasks, other known contacts at the account, and an AI-generated summary of key talking points. The card appears alongside the fields the rep is already filling in, requiring no tap-through or second screen.

Barcelona – October 06, 2026 -- Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) said its Data Quality System (DQS) has aggregated and cleaned data for more than 1 million subjects across over 1,000 clinical studies, automating over 500,000 queries and eliminating thousands of hours of manual data reconciliation for sites and sponsors.

Veeva DQS automates over 500,000 queries to speed analysis-ready data delivery

The platform classifies and visualizes critical trial data while orchestrating risk-based actions across the clinical ecosystem, removing manual reconciliation steps that have historically slowed data lock and submission timelines.

Novo cites rising trial data volume as key driver for automated data management

Ibrahim Kamstrup-Akkaoui, vice president at Novo, said managing data from a growing number of clinical trials is a priority, and that Veeva DQS helps the company manage, format, clean, and prepare data for submission more efficiently.

Garden City, N.Y. – October 06, 2026 -- Seasoft Solutions has launched User Access Reviews (UAR) for its Seasoft Identity platform, combining automated access certification and remediation into a single workflow for mid-market organizations.

Platform replaces spreadsheet-based certification with automated campaigns

IT and security teams can now define which systems and applications require certification, assign reviewers, and have Seasoft Identity automatically assemble review campaigns from existing platform access data. The tool eliminates manual exports, email follow-up, and separate remediation tracking that traditionally burden access certification cycles.

Scarborough, Maine – October 06, 2026 -- ConductorAI has secured an award through the Department of War's Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program to support the Defense Intelligence Agency, marking DIA's first APFIT award and one of the program's first pure software selections.

Funding will scale ConductorAI's Conduit platform across DIA operations

The award will support deployment and scaling of Conduit, an agentic AI system that encodes policies, tradecraft, and institutional expertise into auditable decision workflows. The platform processes millions of pages of structured and unstructured data -- including Office documents, images, and video -- to compress document approval timelines from months to minutes.

Notre Dame, Ind. – October 06, 2026 -- Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are building an AI system called Voice4PIMD to translate the facial expressions, gestures, eye gaze, and vocalizations of nonverbal individuals into text or audio alerts caregivers can act on.

Cameras and sensors capture nonverbal cues for caregiver training

Led by computer engineering scientist Jarek Nabrzyski, the team's system uses cameras and sensors to record facial expressions, eye gaze, body movements, heart rate, and vocalizations. Caregivers train the model to interpret these signals for a specific individual, since the same gesture can carry different meanings from person to person.

Cary, N.C. – October 06, 2026 -- SAS has been named to Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech 2026 list in the Applied AI category for digital twin technology deployed by Sterilcentral, Denmark's largest medical sterilization provider, to manage instrument flow across seven hospitals supporting roughly 1,000 surgeries daily in the Danish capital region.

SAS built a 3D digital twin of Sterilcentral's Herlev facility to track thousands of instruments daily

The digital twin, built on SAS Viya and enhanced with 3D environments from Epic Games' Unreal Engine, models the washing, drying, packaging and delivery stages where instruments move through the facility. SAS and Sterilcentral used the system to locate and resolve disruptions in the sterilization pipeline that were previously difficult to isolate.

San Francisco – October 06, 2026 -- Renew Home, the largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) operator in the U.S., is rebranding as Everyday Electric and acquiring connected-vehicle platform Smartcar as it expands beyond smart thermostats into a whole-home energy management system.

Company shifts from thermostat optimization to whole-home VPP coordination

Everyday Electric already coordinates more than 6 gigawatts of capacity across connected thermostats, electric vehicles, solar and storage systems. The new Everyday VPP platform builds on traditional demand response programs, integrating HVAC, EV, EVSE, storage and solar OEM partnerships into a single coordinated system for utility partners.

Santa Clara, California – October 06, 2026 -- Realtor.com®+ has reached more than 192,000 agents across 21 live markets since its January 2026 debut, with up to 10% agent adoption rates recorded in those markets, as the platform rolls out a new AI assistant called RealAssistTM AI to automate routine agent tasks.

RealAssist AI targets repetitive agent workflows with three core tools

The new feature set includes AI-driven client and search setup that captures buyer preferences to auto-generate tailored home searches, a Daily Digest that consolidates chats, searches, notifications and price changes into a single summary with suggested next steps, and Agentic Actions that recommend and help execute tasks such as refining searches using MLS data fields or drafting client messages. Agents retain approval authority over every automated action.