Sydney – October 24, 2026 -- Diraq, a University of New South Wales (UNSW) spin-out that builds quantum computers from modified standard transistors, expects chips with thousands of qubits as early as 2028 and universal fault-tolerant machines in the 2030s, according to founder and CEO Andrew Dzurak.

Diraq adds $15M Series A-2 extension to $20M initial round

Diraq raised a $20M Series A in 2022, led by Allectus Capital. This spring it announced a Series A-2 extension led by Quantonation, which brought in an additional $15M. The company spun out of UNSW in May 2022 and opened a company lab on the university campus a few weeks ago, keeping it close to ongoing research.

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.

Several CIOs compared AI's impact to the dot-com era and the arrival of cloud: it enables business reinvention but brings security and social risks. Gartner analysts said in the keynote that most tech executives are weighing those risks against AI's measurable and unquantifiable value.

Capital One Software executive calls non-adoption an 'extinction event'

Prashant Prahlad, SVP of product at Capital One Software, said skipping AI is not an option for enterprises. "If you don't get on board, it's going to be an extinction event," he said.

San Francisco – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare will accept private network interconnect (PNI) requests only from networks that exchange more than 10 Gbps of peak traffic with it in a single location, according to its peering policy dated December 1, 2025.

Cloudflare applies an open peering policy across 335 cities

AS13335 runs a global anycast network spanning more than 335 cities in over 125 countries. Cloudflare will peer with networks that share a presence in mutual locations, and it may grant exceptions to the policy.

All peers must run 24x7 NOCs and secure BGP sessions

Every peer must keep a complete, current PeeringDB entry listing accurate peering locations, IPv4 and IPv6 prefix limits and contact details. Cloudflare uses the record for automated provisioning and network notifications. Peers must also operate a 24x7 Network Operations Center that responds to peering issues.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare is pitching Workers AI as a serverless inference platform that bills only for usage, at $0.011 per thousand neurons, and runs 50+ models across 200+ cities.

Cloudflare targets idle GPU spend with usage-based billing

Cloudflare argues that inference demand is spiky, unlike training. It cites average GPU utilization of only 20-40%, with one-third of organizations below 15%. Workers AI removes hardware commitments, GPU management and capacity planning, so customers pay only for inference they run.

The pricing page lists 10,000 neurons per day alongside the $0.011 per thousand neurons rate.

Platform exposes Kimi K2.6, GLM 4.7 Flash, GPT-OSS-120B and Llama 4 Scout through one API

The catalog includes:

Middle East – October 24, 2026 -- Spot helium prices have doubled after Iranian strikes hit Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, exposing semiconductor fabs to a materials shortage that extends well beyond oil.

Qatar produced roughly one-third of the world's helium as a byproduct of LNG processing. QatarEnergy has declared force majeure, and repairs are estimated at three to five years.

Stranded cryogenic containers put a 35-to-48-day clock on Asian fabs

Roughly 200 specialised cryogenic containers are stranded near the Strait of Hormuz. They keep helium liquid for only 35 to 48 days before it warms and escapes. The last scheduled shipments to Asian fabs are arriving now.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- The semiconductor industry is projected to reach a market value of $1 trillion by 2030-2032, built on a production chain that spans several continents and thousands of precision steps.

Wafer size of 300mm dominates modern fabrication for higher chip yield

Production starts with refining sand into ultra-pure silicon, the second most abundant element in Earth's crust at about 28%. The silicon is melted, cooled into ingots, sliced into wafers and polished. Wafers come in 150mm, 200mm and 300mm diameters, and the 300mm format is the most widely used because it yields more chips per wafer. Thickness ranges from 0.7mm to 1mm, and weight from 30g to 125g depending on diameter.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- A May 2026 "Tau Scaling Law" announcement claims production deployment of design-driven chip scaling across hundreds of chip variants over six years. That claim turns algorithmic power, performance and area (PPA) gains from a research topic into a commercial benchmark for EDA vendors and foundries, according to an industry analysis.

Tau framework targets signal delay instead of transistor size

The announcement was covered by Reuters, CNBC, Nikkei Asia, Forbes and The Register. It reframes scaling around time delay rather than geometry. The goal is to cut delay across devices, interconnects, circuits, chips, software and systems through architecture, placement, routing, 3D integration and hardware/software co-optimization.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare's Learning Center covers 16 topic areas, from DDoS attacks and DNS to AI, SASE and domain registration, according to the resource index.

Security guides cover DDoS, bots, email and web applications

The DDoS guide describes a network of computers working in tandem to overflow an access point and block legitimate users from a service. The bots guide separates helpful automated applications from malicious ones that can harm sites and applications.

The web application security guide calls for a holistic approach to mitigating attacks. The email security guide covers preventing email-based cyber attacks, protecting accounts from takeover and securing message contents. The SSL guide describes the protocol, known today as TLS, as an encryption protocol running on top of HTTP to protect communication between servers and clients.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare is offering small and midsize business agencies and hosting partners discounted plans with no revenue commitments through its Self-Serve Agency Program.

Program bundles multi-tenant dashboard and centralized billing

The program lets agencies and hosting partners manage their clients' self-serve accounts from a multi-tenant dashboard. Billing is centralized, and participants get discounted plans.

Only domains in the Agency Tenant Account earn the discount

Applicants must register a new user with a blank Cloudflare account. Existing accounts with paid products cannot be converted, and neither can users with access to multiple accounts.

Cloudflare recommends creating a new user, for example cloudflare@xyz.com, and setting up a new billing profile for it. Only domains added to the Agency Tenant Account count toward the program discount. Participation is governed by the Cloudflare Agency Terms.

Boston – October 24, 2026 -- Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) has launched Buyer Intelligence, an AI-enhanced solution that applies three new AI skills to person-level intent data drawn from approximately 58 million permissioned first-party audience members.

CEO Gary Nugent said AI-optimized go-to-market systems depend on input quality, noting that outcomes "will only be as strong as their inputs."

Three AI skills target pitch preparation and segment selection

Pain Points surfaces the challenges buying group members are researching, based on the articles, videos and webinars they consume. It is designed to cut sales call preparation time.

Pitch Assist generates messaging guidance tailored to each account's business problems. Persona and ICP Intelligence ranks customer segments by current in-market activity, flags new personas and indicates when to re-evaluate an Ideal Customer Profile.