Reston, Va. – October 25, 2026 -- SpiderOak has won a contract from the Program Office for U.S. Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMO UAS) to run supply chain analysis and cybersecurity assessments for multiple vendors in the Army's Drone Dominance Program (DDP).

United States – October 24, 2026 -- The direct-to-consumer cash-pay market in biopharma could reach $26 billion at its peak, according to Morgan Stanley healthcare services analyst Erin Wright, as U.S. patients take more control over how they access and pay for care.

New York – October 24, 2026 -- GlobalFoundries (GF) has committed $16 billion to expand manufacturing and advanced packaging in New York and Vermont, and has designated its Vermont site as the core hub for gallium nitride (GaN) technology development. The June 4, 2025 announcement is backed by Apple, SpaceX, AMD, Qualcomm, NXP and General Motors.

Malta, New York – October 24, 2026 -- The U.S. Department of Defense has partnered with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to secure a supply of semiconductors manufactured at Fab 8 in Malta, New York, a facility the chipmaker has reportedly backed with more than $13 billion in investment.

United States – October 24, 2026 -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will replace its single annual window for HCPCS Level II code applications with quarterly cycles for drugs and semi-annual cycles for devices, Administrator Seema Verma said at the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) Annual Meeting.

Cambridge, Massachusetts – October 24, 2026 -- Harvard University researchers reported control of more than 3,000 neutral atom qubits, one of the largest experimental quantum systems to date, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters.

The work demonstrates long-coherence control and advances the pursuit of fault-tolerant quantum architectures.

United States – October 24, 2026 -- DARPA has advanced 11 quantum computing companies to Stage B of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), giving each team one year to show that a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer can be built by 2033.

Launched in 2024, the QBI is designed to test whether any quantum approach can reach utility-scale performance on an economically sensible timeline. It is not a winner-takes-all contest. Several teams can succeed in parallel, or none at all.

Orlando – October 24, 2026 -- Enterprise AI adoption is continuing in 2026 despite mounting security, accountability and control concerns, CIOs attending Gartner's IT Symposium/Xpo told CIO Dive. In financial services, three-quarters of leaders reported using the technology this year, up from less than one-third in 2024.

Burlington – October 24, 2026 -- GlobalFoundries (GF) has qualified RFGaN1, its first RF GaN-on-silicon technology for volume production on 200mm wafers. It has also qualified SLATE, a wafer-bonding technology that cuts RF die area by up to 45% with no loss in RF performance.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Agentic intrusions tripled in the second half of 2026 compared with the first half, according to CrowdStrike data, as threat actors hand hacking decisions and command execution to AI agents.

CrowdStrike's report, published on Wednesday, documents four threat actors. Two used sophisticated AI harnesses, the software that connects a large language model to external resources. Two used simpler setups. The firm said the main constraint on scaling such campaigns is "token budgets," not engineering complexity.