Business
Norwegian timber harvest through Q3 remained near 2025 level
Agency figures on October 13 showed 10.45 million cubic metres harvested through the first three quarters and lower prices for several log categories.
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Norway’s agricultural food waste rose to 53,169 tonnes in 2025
The agency’s 2025 survey found primary-sector food waste rose 24% from the previous year.
Technology
Cohere signs letter of intent to acquire cybersecurity company AISLE
Cohere announced a letter of intent to acquire AISLE on 15 October. AISLE develops autonomous systems to discover, validate and help remediate previously unknown software vulnerabilities. The announcement concerns a proposed acquisition; it does not report a completed transaction or disclose a price.
Technology
Google Cloud and Temporal preview serverless workers
Google Cloud and Temporal opened a preview integration that runs Temporal Cloud workers on Cloud Run worker pools. Temporal adjusts pool capacity by tracking task-queue delay, and the pool can scale to zero when idle. Workers run in the customer’s project, under its service account and network.
Business
Insee explains why national and harmonised inflation measures diverge
In a methodology article dated 15 October, France’s statistics institute Insee explained the difference between national consumer price index IPC and European harmonised index IPCH. IPC follows prices before public reimbursements for items such as health care, while IPCH follows what households pay after public coverage is deducted.
Technology
Komprise survey finds a gap in AI data readiness
Komprise published results from a September 2026 survey of 500 technical decision-makers. While 68% said their organizations were maturing or mature in AI, 28% said they had quantified AI return on investment. Only 7% reported that at least 70% of their data was cleaned and classified for AI; 57% said half or less was ready.
Technology
MLCommons to develop an NSF-backed agent efficiency benchmark
MLCommons was selected to develop the MLPerf Agents benchmark under a two-year, $3.5 million AI Efficiency Challenge supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The planned benchmark will measure complete workflows—not just model token serving—including the agent harness, model choice, retrieval, tool execution, orchestration, state management, failure recovery and validation.
Agriculture
Brazil’s AgNest introduces agritech startups to field-testing infrastructure
According to Embrapa’s 15 October report, around 60 agritech startup representatives visited the AgNest farm lab in Jaguariúna, São Paulo, on 14 October. The visit, part of Sebrae-SP’s free Speed Agro accelerator, introduced infrastructure for testing solutions under real field conditions before commercial expansion.
Technology
Databricks makes document intelligence REST APIs generally available
Databricks made synchronous REST APIs for document parsing, classification and field extraction generally available. ai_parse_document converts tables and figures into structured text; ai_extract returns requested fields with optional source citations and confidence scores. ai_classify labels documents or extracted entities against a business taxonomy.
Technology
Databricks expands predictive AI functions in beta
Databricks announced its Predictive AI Functions in beta for forecasting, anomaly detection, driver analysis and prediction through SQL. The set includes an updated ai_forecast plus ai_top_drivers, ai_detect_anomalies, ai_predict_value and ai_predict_class. Functions can be called in SQL; some are also exposed through the Genie interface.
Business
Gold Runner corrects Golden Girl sample counts
Gold Runner Exploration issued an October 14 correction for its 2026 surface program at Golden Girl in British Columbia. It reported a grab sample grading 79.85 g/t gold.
Business
Lahontan PEA models 11-year mine life for Santa Fe
Lahontan Gold reported a post-tax net present value of US$820 million at a 5% discount rate in a preliminary assessment of its Nevada Santa Fe project.