IDEXX Laboratories Inc.: 10-K Risk Factor Changes

2026 vs 2025  ·  SEC EDGAR  ·  2026-10-16
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IDEXX strengthened AI risk disclosures and IT security language amid competitive and operational challenges.

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🟡 Modified Disclosure change7/10

Issues in our use of AI may result in reputational harm or liability and adversely affect our business

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Sentence-level differences:

  • Reworded sentence: "We also use and are investing in AI tools for our internal business operations, including to generate code, develop products and services, and increase operational efficiency."
  • Reworded sentence: "Our competitors may incorporate AI into their products, services, and operations more quickly, more successfully and more cost-effectively than us, which could impede our ability to compete."

Current (2026):

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We have built, and expect to continue to build, AI into many of our product and service offerings, and we expect this element of our business to grow. We envision a future in which responsible AI operating in our devices, applications, and the cloud, helps our customers be more productive in their business activities and interactions with consumers. As with many disruptive innovations, AI presents risks and challenges that could affect its adoption, and therefore our business. AI algorithms and models may be flawed. Datasets may be insufficient or contain information that is non-representative, infringing, or otherwise subject to legal challenge. Existing and potential government regulation related to AI use may also foreclose certain areas of AI use, cause us to modify how we use AI, and increase the burden and cost of research and development in this area, and failure to properly remediate AI usage issues may cause public confidence in AI to be undermined, which could slow adoption of AI in our offerings. The rapid evolution of AI will require the application of resources to develop, test, and maintain our products and services to help ensure that AI is implemented in a manner to minimize unintended, harmful impact and to comply with applicable law. Furthermore, over the last two years, there have been multiple class action lawsuits filed against large language model developers in the Northern District of California, the Southern District of New York, and the Middle District of Tennessee concerning alleged copyright and other intellectual property violations with respect to the information used to train AI models. The outcomes of these litigations may impair our ability to provide our AI technologies.

🟡 Modified We depend on the continuous and reliable operation and security of our information technology systems and our products and services that incorporate or rely on information technology, and any disruption or significant cybersecurity breach or other incident could adversely affect our business 🔒
🟡 Modified Our operations and reputation may be impaired if we, our products, or our services do not comply with our global privacy policy or evolving laws, regulations, and industry standards regarding data privacy and protection 🔒
🟡 Modified Our business lines are highly attractive and highly competitive. Our failure to successfully execute certain strategies in this competitive environment could have a material negative impact on our future growth and profitability 🔒

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