White Plains – October 14, 2026 -- Rockbridge Growth Equity-backed FormativGroup has acquired Saige Consulting, an AI and technology consulting firm, to add AI implementation and software engineering capacity to its application and data architecture business. The announcement did not include financial terms.

FormativGroup combines application platforms with Saige's AI delivery

FormativGroup brings application platforms, workflow development and data architecture. Saige adds technology strategy, software development and AI implementation. The companies say the combined offer covers a client engagement from strategy through scalable delivery.

Saige works with public and private sector organizations on cloud, data, AI and workflow automation. It has experience embedding AI and automation in core business workflows, which the companies describe as moving clients from aspirational thinking to repeatable use cases.

Boston – October 14, 2026 -- Aura Business, the business division of Aura (ASX: AXQ), has signed a distribution partnership with Climb that gives Climb's network of resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) access to Aura Business's new identity-centric BYOD security solution.

Climb is a global specialty technology distributor focused on security, data management, connectivity, cloud and software. Its customers can access Aura Business immediately through the Climb marketplace.

Omdia data shows 55% of MSPs have had a BYOD-related security incident in 24 months

Aura cited Omdia research to frame the opportunity. According to the figures, 65% of MSPs are seeing demand for BYOD management, yet only 24% monitor employee-owned devices. Some 55% have experienced a BYOD-related security incident in the past 24 months.

Tucson – October 14, 2026 -- Siensmetrica, Inc. has changed its name to Tessa AI, Inc. effective October 7, aligning the company with the brand of its AI research evaluation platform, Tessa, and signaling a push beyond paper scoring into tools for the full lifecycle of scientific research.

Tessa AI has served biomedical users since a May 2026 launch

Since its May 2026 launch, the Tessa platform has been used by researchers, clinicians, and biopharma professionals to evaluate biomedical studies. Each score comes with the evidence behind it. The company said customers, partners, and its own team already called it Tessa.

The former name was a coined word meaning roughly "knowledge measurement," reflecting the company's origin as a system for scoring published research. Siensmetrica.com now redirects to tessaai.co.

Tulsa – – October 14, 2026 -- Eighty of 100 U.S. small businesses landed in the lowest "Ghosted" tier of a new AI-visibility benchmark, averaging 50.9 out of 100, according to Modern Asset Lab, which today launched its Match ProtocolTM framework for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

Benchmark ran up to 32 blind buyer conversations per business

The Match ProtocolTM Benchmark tested 100 businesses across 10 industries and 11 metro areas in the South, West and Midwest. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini answered an average of 27.8 buyer conversations per business, without the business being named in the questions. Industries covered HVAC, plumbing, roofing, dental, med spa, personal injury/family law, auto repair, independent restaurants, CPA/accounting and landscaping.

The company cautions that at n=100, results are directional rather than nationally representative.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – October 14, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) and the Deloitte Center for Integrated Research have introduced a collaboration built around a guide that sorts enterprise AI workloads into six archetypes and maps each to one of four physical infrastructure models.

The Vertiv Designing Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Guide was developed by Vertiv and STL Partners, a digital infrastructure research firm. It is aimed at business, IT and facilities leaders who must decide where AI workloads should run and whether available infrastructure can support them before they commit to an infrastructure plan.

Kissimmee – – October 14, 2026 -- Experience Kissimmee has launched Film Kissimmee, the official film commission for Osceola County, with more than 100 scouted filming locations ready for production companies, location managers and digital content creators.

Location scout documents 100+ sites across Osceola County

Experience Kissimmee hired a professional location scout with more than 20 years of experience to identify and document the sites. The locations are being added to an online directory powered by Reel-Scout, a location management platform. Filmmakers can use it to search available properties, review photography and access production-related information.

The portfolio covers natural waterways, cypress-lined wetlands, historic downtown streets, ranchlands, hospitality properties and modern innovation centers. It also includes vacation homes, from luxury estates and themed properties to contemporary residences and resort-style retreats.

Albany – October 14, 2026 -- IBM and Siemens have launched a joint research program to prepare IBM's nanostack transistor architecture, which packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a space the size of a fingernail at the 7 angstrom node, for volume manufacturing.

Nanostack stacks and staggers transistors in three dimensions

IBM describes nanostack as the industry's first known three-dimensional, nanosheet-based design. It vertically stacks and staggers transistors to raise density. The architecture also allows different material combinations in each stacked layer, so each transistor's performance and power efficiency can be optimized independently of the other.

IBM credits the design with substantial gains in energy efficiency, performance and SRAM scaling. It unveiled the architecture earlier this year and has demonstrated that it is viable.

Redwood City – October 14, 2026 -- The worldwide Data Center Physical Infrastructure (DCPI) market grew 27% year-over-year to $14 billion in manufacturer revenue in the second quarter of 2026, according to Dell'Oro Group. Growth has now run above 20% for consecutive quarters as demand for AI data center capacity outpaces supply. Dell'Oro attributes the modest slowdown from 1Q 2026 to a tougher comparison base, not weaker demand.

The research firm now ranks siting and permitting as the most serious near-term brake on the market. "The quieter and more consequential one is whether it will be permitted," said Alex Cordovil, Research Director at Dell'Oro, contrasting the issue with the louder debate over project cancellations. He said power availability, long-lead equipment and community opposition are stretching project timelines. He added that the timing of permits and grid interconnections is harder to forecast than the demand behind them.

Atlanta – October 14, 2026 -- Capacity Sports Group now owns the 78-acre LakePoint Sports property in Emerson, Ga., comprising the Baseball Village and Publix Fields, and holds a lease to operate the 170,000-square-foot Champions Center Indoor Pavilion.

Capacity takes ownership of two venues and leases a third at LakePoint

The transaction expands the multisport operations of the youth sports company, which brings together event brands, operators and facilities. The source does not disclose financial terms. LakePoint Sports sits near Atlanta and welcomes millions of guests annually.

Three venues anchor the destination. The Baseball Village has eight major league-sized synthetic turf fields. The Champions Center accommodates 12 basketball courts or 24 volleyball courts. Publix Fields offers three multiuse turf fields for soccer, lacrosse and football.

New York – – October 14, 2026 -- The Mackinder Forum will start a free, twice-monthly digital lecture series on October 21, 2026, to analyze the wars and tensions shaping the global strategic landscape.

The series, titled Taking Stock, targets national security professionals, entrepreneurs and academics. It links current events to questions for business, policy, history and the global balance of power.

Gordon Chang opens the series with a lecture on China and Taiwan

The first session, Taking Stock I: China's Project to Annex Taiwan and the Pacific Ocean, will be presented by Gordon Chang. Later lectures will cover the war in Ukraine, the Middle East and security on NATO's eastern flank.