AI Infrastructure & Data Centers

REDWOOD CITY – October 29, 2026 -- Equinix raised its full-year 2026 guidance for the third consecutive quarter after record annualized gross bookings of $533 million, up 35% year over year, and third-quarter revenue of $2.571 billion.

Revenue rises 11% as profit measures grow faster

Revenue increased 11% year over year as reported and 12% on a normalized and constant currency basis. Operating income climbed 27% to $600 million. Net income attributable to common stockholders rose 31% to $489 million, or $4.93 per share, up 29%. The result includes a non-recurring fee earned in connection with the atNorth joint venture investment.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- A malicious version of LiteLLM, version 1.107.0, was published to PyPI on October 29, 2026. It bundles a credential-stealing infostealer with a remote access trojan (RAT), according to OX Security. It is the second hijacking of the AI gateway this year, and PyPI has since quarantined the release.

Malware hides in the wheel package, not the source repository

The attacker injected the code only into the wheel package, so a review of the repository or the clean source would show nothing wrong. Stolen data goes to litellm[.]dev, a domain the attacker bought that can pass for a legitimate LiteLLM address. In March, versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were compromised in the TeamPCP campaign, but this attack used different tooling and infrastructure.

San Francisco – September 10, 2026 -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ: INV) shares plunged 55% on August 14, 2026, after the company pulled its DarkNX data-center project from 2026 forecasts and suspended revenue guidance, triggering a securities class action investigation by Hagens Berman.

Stock lost 74% of value amid unraveling data-center claims

Between May 27, 2026 and August 14, 2026, Innventure shares fell $4.795, or 74%, as scrutiny mounted over its subsidiary Accelsius' purported agreement with DarkNX. The deal, which Innventure had described as "the largest two-phase, direct-to-chip deployment to date," involved deploying Accelsius' NeuCool cooling technology across a 300MW AI data center campus in Ontario, Canada.

New York City – September 10, 2026 -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ:INV) faces a securities fraud class action after its stock collapsed 55% on August 14, 2026, following disclosures that its subsidiary Accelsius had pulled a marquee data center project from its bookings.

Innventure allegedly overstated the viability of Accelsius' DarkNX cooling contract

Law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Labed v. Innventure, Inc. et al., No. 26-cv-07377. The suit alleges Innventure and senior executives misrepresented an agreement between Accelsius and DarkNX to deploy NeuCool direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology across a proposed 300MW AI data center campus in Ontario, Canada. Innventure had cited the deal to project Accelsius reaching cash flow positivity by year-end 2026 and to support revenue growth forecasts.

Dubai – October 29, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-Powered Product" category at the 23rd International Business Awards (IBAs), the company announced. The 2026 IBAs drew more than 3,400 nominations from 82 countries and territories, with winners scored by over 200 business professionals across specialized judging committees during an independent evaluation process in June and July.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-based Solution" category at the 23rd annual International Business Awards (IBA), selected from over 3,400 entries submitted by organizations across 82 countries and territories.

Niya-X positions itself as an "AI Expertforce" beyond copilots and task-based agents

Flytxt describes Niya-X as moving past AI copilots that assist users and task-focused agents that automate work. The platform deploys domain-specialized AI experts designed to understand enterprise goals, formulate strategies, make decisions, coordinate actions and continuously learn from outcomes.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-driven Product" category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards for its agentic AI platform Niya-X.

Niya-X moves beyond task automation to autonomous decision-making

Unlike AI co-pilots that assist humans or task-oriented agents that automate workflows, Niya-X deploys domain-specific "AI Experts" capable of understanding business goals, formulating strategies, making decisions, coordinating actions and learning continuously from outcomes. The platform relies on causal learning and counterfactual modeling to simulate and evaluate alternative market scenarios before selecting the course of action most likely to achieve a desired result, while operating within defined corporate governance and data-privacy constraints.

CLEVELAND – October 29, 2026 -- Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine will join a DCD Connect Virginia 2026 panel on November 4 to press for tighter alignment between data center construction and operations, after YOTTA 2026 discussions showed developers shifting from single buildings to full-campus power, cooling and water systems.

YOTTA 2026 participants flag megawatt capacity as the measure of project scale

Discussions at YOTTA 2026 centered on the growing adoption of modular construction and on critical specification decisions being made before projects reach the bid stage. Participants also named megawatt-related power capacity as a defining yardstick of project size, which raises the weight of power delivery, cooling systems and water resources.

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Plato, a startup that builds simulated workplaces for training AI models, raised a $16 million Series A round led by Nava Ventures, lifting its total funding to $19 million.

Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman also participated. Gradient Ventures had led the company's earlier seed round. Nava Ventures founder Freddie Martignetti joins Plato's board.

Simulations let AI labs train models without touching live systems

Plato targets the shift from AI that answers questions to AI that takes action. Training models directly in live software carries real risk: a model learning to place an order could spend actual money, and one practicing an administrative task could alter real records. Plato recreates these workflows in simulations that can be reset and reused.

SINGAPORE – October 29, 2026 -- OneQode has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai, with talks continuing on an expansion of up to 114 MW that the company says could generate more than US$6 billion in GPU-as-a-service total contract value.

The deal is OneQode's first major AI infrastructure deployment in India. The Chennai site will host large-scale AI training and inference, enterprise AI and sovereign AI workloads, and forms part of OneQode's Asia-Pacific buildout alongside its deployment in Thailand.