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Today's OverviewNO.0110.26

Today's overview: eight stories, one changing world

1. ARIS combines process mining, Process Lens and MCP into a process-context layer for enterprise AI. 2. Solo-run Captapi verifies $537 MRR. 3. Morphy puts multiple AI coding agents side by side on one desktop canvas and verifies $245 MRR. 4. A Brazilian cross-border apparel case reports R$32 million annual GMV and 47% higher 90-day repeat orders. 5. Divarasib raises median overall survival in KRAS G12C lung cancer from 12 to 17.7 months. 6. About one in three unresponsive ICU patients controlled a tone through EEG signals. 7. Evidence suggests the next glacial period had begun before global warming reversed it around 1960. 8. Bacterial adhesion proteins can directly release a covalent bond when conditions become mildly acidic.

SourceARIS

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AINO.0210.26

ARIS launches a process-context layer for enterprise AI

ARIS made Process Context for Enterprise AI available on October 26, combining object-centric process mining, Process Lens for locating high-value AI opportunities, and an MCP interface that gives agents access to processes, roles, systems, rules, risks and controls. The foundation is a digital twin of the organization linking process design with execution data. In an ARIS and Hackett Group survey of more than 200 executives at large and multinational organizations, 82% said process context is required to deploy AI agents, while only 21% reported comprehensive real-time visibility into work flows; organizations using process-context tools were over five times as likely to report measurable AI ROI. These are vendor and partner-research findings, not a randomized trial. Deployment still depends on data quality, access governance, integration and continuous process maintenance.

SourceARIS

Revenue-Generating AI ApplicationNO.0410.26

Morphy verifies $245 MRR

Belgian developer Casper Apers launched Morphy for Windows, Mac and Linux, placing Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, OpenRouter and Ollama on one desktop canvas while customers keep using the model plans they already pay for. Projects, notes, flows and a browser preserve working context. TrustMRR verifies $450 total and last-30-day revenue, $245 MRR and 41 active subscriptions through Stripe since the October launch; roughly 700 users and a Discord community of more than 1,300 builders provide early distribution. Monetization includes a free plan, $9 monthly Pro and a limited $99 lifetime offer, later planned at $14 and $299. The sample is still small, lifetime sales can pre-spend future support capacity, and multi-agent integration reliability and retention remain unproven.

SourceTrustMRR

Cross-Border E-commerceNO.0510.26

Brazilian cross-border apparel case reaches R$32M annual GMV

An anonymous São Paulo cross-border apparel brand in an FFOrder case sells 1,200 active SKUs through Shopify, Mercado Livre, Amazon BR and Shopee BR and reports R$32 million in annual GMV. Previously, roughly 18% of inbound peak-season shipments were held by customs, the sample-to-live catalog cycle took 45 days, first Portuguese support reply averaged 14 hours and blended gross margin had compressed to 8%. After adding delivered-duty-paid routing, multiple logistics lanes, low-MOQ OEM, ODM and print-on-demand, plus Portuguese support, the catalog cycle fell to 21 days, customs holds stayed below 2%, 90-day repeat orders rose 47% on flat ad spend, average order value rose 32% and refunds fell to 3.5%. Profit comes from faster drops, fewer refunds and repeat demand. All figures are vendor-reported for an anonymous client, not independently audited, while inventory, duties, logistics and supplier quality remain key risks.

SourceFFOrder

MedicineNO.0610.26

Divarasib raises median overall survival to 17.7 months

The global Phase 3 Krascendo 1 trial enrolled 338 patients at 151 centers in 26 countries with advanced or metastatic KRAS G12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer that had progressed after prior treatment, directly comparing divarasib with sotorasib or adagrasib. Median overall survival was 17.7 versus 12 months, a 44% lower risk of death; median progression-free survival was 9.8 versus 5.7 months, a 42% lower risk of progression. Objective response was 58.4% versus 32.3%, while severe treatment-related side effects occurred in 25% versus 35%. Results were published in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at ESMO 2026. Limits include the open-label design, a smaller adagrasib subgroup, exclusion of untreated brain metastases and sponsorship by Roche and Genentech; regulatory and guideline adoption still require further steps.

SourceUT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Brain ScienceNO.0710.26

About one in three unresponsive ICU patients controlled a tone with EEG

A Columbia team tested a noninvasive brain-computer interface in 41 clinically unresponsive ICU patients after acute brain injury. Routine EEG recorded brainwaves while a bedside computer analyzed them in real time; patients heard instructions to try opening and closing their hands and used that mental effort to change the frequency of a tone in headphones. After brief training, about one in three controlled the sound through thought alone, including every patient whose cognitive-motor dissociation was found in a separate exam. The group had previously detected hidden consciousness in 15% of unresponsive brain-injury patients in 2019. This system still provides simple feedback, not free communication, and is not routine clinical care. Larger studies must test accuracy, fatigue and individual variation before patients can reliably express pain, hunger or basic wishes.

SourceColumbia University Irving Medical Center

Climate ScienceNO.0810.26

Global warming interrupted a glacial period that had already begun

Columbia Climate School researchers used carbon-14 ages of vegetation preserved beneath the Barnes Ice Cap and nearby small ice caps on Baffin Island to reconstruct changes in the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Evidence indicates it reached a minimum about 3,000 years ago and began expanding again about 2,000 years ago, which the authors interpret as the start of the next glacial period. Around 1960, warmer summers made ice loss exceed winter accumulation and reversed the advance. Without that reversal, the authors estimate a continent-scale ice sheet would still have taken roughly 30,000 years to form. The Delaware-sized Barnes Ice Cap may disappear within coming centuries. The interpretation challenges the convention that a glacial period begins only after continental ice forms and still requires testing against other ice records and models.

SourceColumbia Climate School

MicrobiologyNO.0910.26

Mild acidity makes bacterial adhesion proteins let go

University of Tokyo researchers studied thioester domains, or TEDs, found across bacterial adhesion proteins and used biolayer interferometry to track binding and release in real time. The TED in the SfbI adhesion protein of group A Streptococcus pyogenes forms a strong covalent bond with host fibrinogen, yet releases it rapidly under mildly acidic conditions. Biochemical and thermodynamic analysis indicates that acidification favors the reverse of the bond-forming reaction, allowing the covalent attachment to come undone. Supporting evidence from the distantly related Clostridium perfringens CpTIE protein suggests pH sensitivity may be rooted in chemistry shared across this protein family. The work appears in Science Advances. It is a molecular-mechanism finding, not an infection treatment; different TEDs may behave differently, and tissue pH, host factors and bacterial survival strategies still need validation.

SourceThe University of Tokyo

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