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Tuesday, 13 October 2026
News: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.
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IonQ agrees to buy zero trust firm Elisity in stock deal worth up to $1.3bn
Up to $150 million of the price is an earnout tied to Elisity results; the share price used is capped at $49.61 and floored at $33.07, with closing expected in the fourth quarter.
2News
Databricks variant shredding will lock Runtime 15.4 out of new tables
Three more dated changes follow it: the partner AI toggle disappears on 1 November, CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW keeps grants from 2 December, and old OpenSharing tokens start expiring on 8 December.
3News
AWS bills AgentCore short-term memory per gigabyte instead of per event
Ingestion costs $1.00 per GB, retrieval $0.20 per GB and storage $0.10 per GB-month. AWS says most workloads will pay less, with small frequent events gaining most.
4News
Vela LatAm to buy Brazilian managed IT provider Penso, pending CADE
Penso serves about 1,600 corporate and public-sector clients from São Paulo with five Brazilian data centres; it says brand, team and service channels stay the same.
5News
Upwind buys Israeli AI security start-up Aegis and opens an AI lab
No price, closing date or headcount is given. The new Upwind AI Lab will work on agent security, security benchmarks for frontier models and GPU protection.
6News
Innovate UK opens three £5m BridgeAI calls for AI firms with a deployer
Each competition opens on 21 October and closes at 11:00 UK time on 8 December; the lead must be a UK AI SME with a product at technology readiness level 5 to 6.
7News
Tokyo opens CVC matching for 200 startups and SMEs with ten corporates
Applications are taken in order of arrival until about 200 matches are made; JPX Research Institute, Ricoh, Nikon and Daiichi Life are among the corporate investors.
8News
Google Ads API moves to two releases a month starting with v26
Four major versions a year continue and each lasts twelve months, so v23 stops working in February 2027 and v26 in November 2027, with minors retired alongside their parent.
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