A collaboration between consultancy Sopra Steria and research centre FIDAMC aims to develop robots that perceive, reason and act in physical environments — trained in simulation and intended for hard-to-automate industrial processes, with initial work to run in a robot cell in Getafe.
At Brandweek 2026, Doug Zarkin argued that marketers’ preference for acquisition is masking a costlier problem — weak retention — and said retention deserves equal energy, budget and attention; he also suggested some churn reflects operational failures rather than marketing alone.
UC Today reported that UNLEASH Paris focused its AI conversation on human contexts and workforce strategy, with interviews indicating that organisational context, job redesign and skills — not tools alone — will shape who progresses with AI; the article noted Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob and quoted HiBob CEO Ronni Zehavi on the need to redesign work for human–agent collaboration.
XR Institute reports that Reality Composer Pro 3 is now a standalone macOS app emphasizing faster iteration for visionOS through visual workflows, an entity/component model, GPU-driven compute simulations, prefab-like prototypes, live headset preview, baked lightmaps, and an integrated AI assistant.
Legal-technology startup IamVERA, founded in 2026 and developed by The Coding Company B.V., positions itself as a configurable verification and privacy layer that routes draft generation, factual audits, adversarial reviews and source checks across different models while pseudonymising sensitive values before external API calls.
Clio announced a consolidated interface that unites Clio Grow, Clio Manage and Clio Work and adds agentic end-to-end workflows, an AI-native business phone system called Clio Phones, automated time capture and a new Documents Pro document management system; the company also highlighted a global legal library of more than one billion primary and secondary legal documents and introduced Vincent Projects for collaborative AI-assisted work.
Ellia Lebleu, a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, says volunteers launched the effort in 2023 after noticing AI-written articles; by 2025 AI text patterns had grown subtler and volunteers are combining human review with detection tools and source-verification AIs to remove problematic machine-generated content.
A poster for the National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial reproduces an image from Ayoung Kim’s multi-channel video Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse (2024), a work created using generative AI alongside CGI, game engines and live action; Reddit commenters disparaged the poster for using AI without distinguishing artists who use AI from AI replacing artists.
Canva Research has developed and trained Canva Craft, described as the company’s first in-house AI image-generation model; the team says the model mimics designers’ workflows by planning a visual composition before generating the image, and it is claimed to excel at portraits, landscapes and abstract designs.
According to reporting that cites Interesting Engineering and collaborators, Anthropic ran its Claude model to propose protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins, producing more than 318,000 designs in about 64 hours. Laboratory partners synthesized and screened 211 selected designs; 17 showed strong laboratory binding to a lab‑produced scorpion toxin, but researchers caution these results do not yet demonstrate therapeutic efficacy in biological systems.
20minutos reports that Baby Queen is an AI-generated pop group from China and that one of its virtual singers, Mity, posted that she is "pregnant" and will temporarily leave the group to rest and recover.
HUMXN is offering free plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct and carpet cleaning in exchange for allowing workers to wear capture devices inside homes; the program will run in Minneapolis, Chicago and Miami, the company says.
At the Academy Museum premiere in Los Angeles, director Travis Knight criticized generative AI, saying "Que la IA se vaya a la mierda," and argued that while pencils, brushes, 3D printers and digital capture are tools, generative AI ceases to be a tool when it supplants the artist; the reporting is by Miguel Ángel Romero for CINEMANÍA/20Minutos.
Cristian Volpato, a 22-year-old professional footballer, struck a mid-September deal granting Callandor exclusive rights to his digital likeness, voice, biometric profiles and performance data so the company can monetise and help control AI-generated uses of his image.
At a three‑day INMA Newsroom and AI Master Class (20 October 2026), speakers described a shift in which newsrooms treat AI not only as a tool but as a means to redesign production, prioritise higher‑value journalism, and develop new revenue and audience strategies.
Facing abundant AI-generated content, major news organisations are emphasising human-crafted processes, visible journalists and editorial signals to persuade readers to subscribe.
At a 20 October 2026 INMA study tour stop at Salesforce Tower, Salesforce executives framed AI as a force for organisational coordination, outlined a four-layer agentic operating model, warned about costs of replacing CRM with general models, and demonstrated an agent-to-agent ad-sales pilot involving Nine and Dentsu that remains in pilot.
A recent INMA webinar discussed research showing Americans spend nearly as much time on e-mail as on social media and warned that AI features in Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft inboxes are beginning to filter and summarise messages, forcing newsletters to earn attention through depth, personality, clear purpose and personalization.
A German trade article reports that the Bavarian audio industry has moved beyond experiments and now uses AI in everyday editorial work, including a feasibility study with Antenne Bayern that produced a chatbot using live transcripts via a RAG architecture and multi-tiered safety filters.
Sanxingdui: Future Memories is a 90‑minute film produced with ByteDance's Jimeng AI by Bona Film Group's AIGMS centre that opens nationwide in China on 23 October; the National Film Administration granted a public screening licence on 28 April and the release date was announced on 27 September.
A Unite.AI guide by Jonas Reeve defines AI video generation as a mechanism that produces temporally connected frames from specified inputs and presents a five-stage operating map to separate implementation responsibilities, evaluation needs, and governance controls.
Adobe’s Enhance Audio, included in the Premiere beta, splits a clip into speech, music, ambience, sound effects and reverb so editors can rebalance elements and keep cutting without blocking renders; a local model (V1) runs on the user’s machine while a higher-quality cloud model (V2) uses Firefly and charges two generative credits per minute, and Premiere processes five seconds of handles on each side of clips to reduce reprocessing.
Owl Labs launched the Meeting Owl 5, a BYOD-focused centre-of-table collaboration device with 4K 360° video, AI speaker tracking and eight beamforming microphones, priced at $1,499 in the US and due in Europe in early November; Navori released Qompose to connect screens to live data and apps; EssilorLuxottica reported wearables revenue growth of 20% in the third quarter of 2026.
A recent piece in Revista de Comunicación presents media literacy as an established strategic area of study since the late 20th century, describes its academic broadening to include digital competencies, civic participation and resilience to disinformation, and calls for stronger theoretical and methodological frameworks to meet rapid technological change and growing policy demand.
Denise Muyco, Co‑Founder and CEO of RAVEL, frames the company as an orchestration layer that coordinates compute, networking, storage, security and policy across distributed AI environments to improve utilization and respect sovereignty constraints (claims drawn from RAVEL’s product descriptions and Muyco’s interview).
Artificial intelligence is changing the competencies required in communication professions and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid is relaunching the seventh edition of its Master in Innovation and Transformation in Communication for 2026–2027 with a reinforced Latin America focus and a Full Stack Comms Talent model.
A Swiss company falls under the EU AI Act when the outputs of its AI systems are used in the Union; for most SMEs two obligations already apply now — disclose that users interact with an AI and provide documented staff training — while high-risk rules were postponed until 2 December 2027.
Independent benchmarks show agents reliably complete short, well-specified tasks but fail as tasks grow longer, more interactive or underspecified; reported success rates include 30% (TheAgentCompany, September 2025), about 58% when all information is given vs 35% when information arrives piecemeal (Salesforce CRMArena-Pro, May 2025), and measured median successful-task horizons of roughly 50 minutes (March 2025) rising to about 2 hours 17 minutes for GPT-5 in later METR measures.
At Meta Connect on 23 September 2026, Meta unveiled roughly 100 g Meta VR Glasses (with processor, battery and storage in a separate puck), announced camera‑free Ray‑Ban Meta Audio glasses, and published a Private Processing cloud architecture for AI glasses; developer publishing remains restricted during the Developer Preview and UK trials of Ray‑Ban Display are available now, while VR Glasses are a 2027 purchasing prospect.
AutoVRse announced on 28 September that its VRseBuilder platform can reduce custom VR development time by up to 93% by converting procedures into editable VR modules and integrating AI assistants with Unity; the company cites internal project comparisons but has not published a breakdown of the underlying data or project count.
A Digiday+ Research report based on a survey of 40 publisher professionals and interviews with publisher executives says publishers have found generative AI a better fit for journalism workflows than predictive AI; the article excerpt is member‑exclusive.
A Digiday+ Research survey of 62 agency professionals conducted in the fourth quarter of 2025 found that agencies cite reduced client spending and the effects of AI as equal leading concerns for 2026, each selected by 38% of respondents.
A Digiday+ Research report based on a survey of 142 brand and agency professionals and interviews with marketing and technology executives finds AI tools have become embedded in marketing workflows by early 2026. The same research says concerns about trust and the complexity of agentic AI remain barriers to broader deployment.
A Digiday+ Research report based on a survey of 142 brand and agency professionals and interviews finds marketers’ adoption of AI rose from 44% in 2022 to 86% in 2025, while the report states that employee training has not kept pace with that adoption.
Discovery is shifting from traditional search to AI systems that synthesize answers before users reach websites, prompting the rise of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and a need for organizational redesign to manage AI visibility across marketing, data, technology, content and communications.
A 2026 benchmark called ViTeX-Bench evaluates scene-text replacement in video using 387 source videos (230 training, 157 evaluation) and separates correctness, visual and temporal quality, and edit locality; reviewers must inspect playback and preserve agreed editable boundaries rather than infer them from a tool’s output.
The second WP Agency Forum took place on 7 October 2026 at Talent Garden Madrid, drew 150 in-person attendees and over 200 online, and was organized by SiteGround España and Modular DS to focus on business strategy amid rapid AI-driven change in the sector.
Manuel Navarro reports that HP markets the EliteBook X G2i as a laptop family that integrates on-device and software AI features — from Poly Studio collaboration tools to Copilot in Windows — intended to cut interruptions, speed routine tasks and ease enterprise adoption of intelligent workflows.
Abel Márquez, Lead Technology Product Manager at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Spain, describes a transition from pilots to deployment of AI embedded in business processes, highlights use cases in labour management and knowledge‑intensive tasks, and stresses human‑in‑the‑loop supervision and responsible‑AI principles.
A study of 32 news organizations across 10 South American countries (2023–2025) finds generative AI moved from experimentation after the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 into an operational element of journalism, concentrated in audience mediation, production support and political-institutional roles.
J·Index, compiled by journalist Katya Gorchinskaya, documents more than 3,000 publicly reported uses of artificial intelligence in news organizations and finds that 60% of those implementations take place within newsrooms, while about one third correspond to small, local or hyperlocal media.
Claudia Benassini Félix frames the article with two objectives: to present open alternatives for knowledge construction from convergences among deep mediatization, media ecology and generative artificial intelligence; and to illustrate those convergences through analysis of a tweet generated by the communication team of the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación associated with Yasmín Esquivel, drawing ethical implications for the minister’s use of generative AI for promotion.
Softtek describes the labour market as at an inflection point and identifies five emerging AI-focused roles — prompt engineers, ethics and bias specialists, AI trainers, auditors and solution architects — that it expects to be in greater demand as companies pursue digital transformation and regulatory resilience.