Artificial Intelligence

Los Angeles – October 13, 2026 -- Sizzle, Inc. has launched Rosa, a conversational video "Synth Human" that serves guests of Sheraton Universal Hotel around the clock in more than 33 languages, with no app download and no dedicated hotel hardware.

Guests scan a QR code in their arrival welcome letter to start a face-to-face video conversation on their own phones. Rosa answers questions on reservations, parking, valet, room service, dining, amenities and shuttle information. She connects guests with the appropriate hotel team when human assistance is required.

Birmingham, Mich. – October 13, 2026 -- Only 14% of Finance leaders say their AI investments have delivered "enterprise value and decision impact," even though 74% now use AI to reduce manual work, according to OneStream's inaugural Forward Finance Index.

The survey covers 1,300 CFOs and equivalent Finance leaders at mid-market ($500M-$999.9M revenue) and enterprise ($1B-$10B+ revenue) organizations in the U.S., U.K., and France. It benchmarks them across five areas: AI strategy, data, workforce, operations, and IT collaboration.

Only 6% of Finance organizations lead across all five areas

More than half (52%) rank as "Followers," held back by data they cannot fully trust, AI without measurable ROI, limited visibility into operational decisions, disconnected IT roadmaps, and an unprepared workforce. Four in ten executives say data quality issues regularly block or delay AI projects.

London – October 13, 2026 -- Movable Ink has launched headless marketing capabilities built on a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that exposes more than 50 APIs across eight Da Vinci domains, letting marketers run campaigns from external AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.

MCP Server connects outside AI tools to Movable Ink execution

The server links external AI tools to Movable Ink while keeping execution context-aware and brand-consistent inside the platform. Marketers can use natural-language prompts to manage, schedule and proof content across all channels, and to manage and activate audiences and data.

Further functions include creating, reviewing, approving and managing creative, accessing brand assets and creative guidelines, and pulling campaign, creative and performance reporting.

Prague – October 13, 2026 -- GFI Software has built Eloquens AI directly into GFI KerioConnect, a mail and collaboration server deployed by more than 30,000 organizations, giving self-hosted mail users an AI email assistant without requiring a move to a third-party cloud.

CEO Eric Vaughan announced the integration in his keynote at ZEBR.AI Roadshow Praha 2026. Prague is in the country where Kerio was founded in 1997. Eloquens AI is an AI email automation platform created in 2024 by GFI's sister company IgniteTech.

Munich – October 13, 2026 -- Autonex launched as a unified automotive marketplace group with annual revenues above €800 million, combining AutoScout24 and AutoTrader.ca across nine markets in Europe and Canada.

The Group reaches more than 40 million unique monthly users and works with over 45,000 dealer partners. It carries more than two million vehicle listings at any given time. It holds leading market positions in most of its markets, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and the Nordics.

Autonex consolidates its brands onto a single shared platform

The launch reflects growing operational and technological integration around one platform featuring Autonex Intelligence. The platform draws on proprietary data from consumer interactions, dealer relationships and vehicle listings. It lets the Group roll out products and commercial capabilities across countries while keeping local market expertise.

Beijing – October 13, 2026 -- Beijing's 12345 government hotline has handled around 200 million requests from individuals and businesses, according to data released as the 2026 Beijing Forum on Swift Response to Public Complaints opened on Monday.

The two-day event opened with research findings, reports on city hotline services and global case studies on urban governance. Digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence, is its key focus.

Hotline has run as a big-data and AI governance hub since 2019

The 12345 platform is the city's unified government service channel. Residents use it to report problems, lodge complaints and seek information on public services ranging from utilities and transportation to healthcare and housing.

PUNE – – October 13, 2026 -- The global robotics market will grow from USD 92 billion in 2025 to USD 480.1 billion by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 20.15% over 2026–2034, according to a new analysis by Maximize Market Research.

The firm attributes the expansion to industrial automation, adoption of AI-powered robots, advances in smart manufacturing and rising demand from automotive, electronics, healthcare and logistics. Demand spans industrial robots, collaborative robots (cobots), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), service robots and humanoid robots. The report covers 154 data tables across 327 pages.

Lehi – October 13, 2026 -- Gargle, Inc., a dental-focused digital marketing company, is extending its search measurement to cover how dental practices appear in AI-generated answers on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI search experiences, alongside traditional Google rankings.

The company delivers the analysis through its AI Search & Marketing Visibility Report and ongoing search optimization services. Both are designed to show practices where they stand across traditional and AI-driven discovery channels.

Gargle bundles five visibility areas into one reporting framework

The approach evaluates the following areas together:

McLean, Va. – October 13, 2026 -- Fedstack, a Smoothstack company that develops software engineering talent for government technology, has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network.

OpenAI network gives Fedstack a channel to build and deploy AI solutions

The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program that lets partners build, sell and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It combines partners' industry expertise, delivery capabilities and customer relationships with resources, enablement and support aimed at helping enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products.

As a Select Partner, Fedstack will keep working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy and scale AI solutions responsibly. That work centers on putting GPT-6 Astra to work across more of a business, using deeper reasoning and computer use to complete complex workflows and deliver finished work.

San Francisco – October 13, 2026 -- Mistlabs, a U.S. developer of cross-platform ambient intelligence, has launched its Ambi system out of beta on Apple devices, backed by US$26 million in Pre-A funding led by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin. The capital will fund development of the company's standalone AI wearable, which is due later this year.

Ambi is available on Apple devices running iOS 18 and on Macs, including iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBook and Mac. Mistlabs says agent-to-agent communication between AI-enabled devices will follow in the coming months.