IT, AI & Telecommunications

Kaohsiung – September 29, 2026 -- Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd., known as SUNON, will present a full chip-to-rack liquid cooling portfolio at the OCP Global Summit 2026, running October 12-15 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California.

SUNON targets rising AI chip power densities with a three-tier cooling architecture

Under the banner "Build to Chill," SUNON's booth A19 display spans chip-level, server-level, and rack-level liquid cooling technologies. The company positions the integrated stack to address a range of power densities, operating environments, and system requirements as AI accelerators push thermal loads beyond the limits of traditional air cooling.

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Hitron Technologies and Airties unveiled a joint connectivity platform at SCTE TechExpo26 designed to help internet service providers monetize small and medium business customers, a segment the companies say has been underserved by existing residential and enterprise offerings.

The solution pairs Hitron's high-performance SMB gateways with Airties Pro software, targeting the gap between low-cost residential broadband and complex, expensive enterprise-grade systems. Hitron and Airties are already working with several service providers to bring the combined offering to their SMB customer bases.

London – September 29, 2026 -- UK-based AI platform company askelie has launched askVERA, an AI-powered service that converts complex documents and communications into Plain English and Easy Read formats for consumers and businesses.

askVERA launches in two versions targeting individuals and organisations

The consumer (B2C) version allows individuals to upload or paste documents such as tenancy agreements, insurance policies or official letters to receive an instant simplified version. The business (B2B) version integrates into an organisation's existing workflows, enabling companies to simplify customer-facing content at scale and reduce queries caused by unclear communication.

Cornwall Council already piloted the technology before wider rollout

Ahead of the public launch, askVERA had already been deployed with organisations including Cornwall Council to make official documents more accessible.

London – September 29, 2026 -- jaam automation has launched M. by jaam, an Agentic Work Management platform designed to close the gap between AI adoption and measurable business impact. The launch responds to McKinsey data showing 88% of organisations now use AI, yet only 7% have fully scaled it across operations.

Adoption outpaces execution, McKinsey data shows

McKinsey research cited by jaam found that while 80% of employees report AI has improved their individual productivity, only 37% of organisations see a positive impact on EBIT. jaam positions M. as a fix for this disconnect, arguing that fragmented processes across people, applications and systems prevent AI agents from understanding what needs to happen next in a workflow.

Los Angeles and Toronto – September 29, 2026 -- BRC Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) has agreed to acquire Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX: STC; NASDAQ: SANG) in a deal valuing the communications provider at an enterprise value of approximately $204 million, or C$289 million.

Combined communications revenue reaches $441 million on a trailing-twelve-month basis

BRC's existing communications businesses and Sangoma generated a combined $441 million in trailing-twelve-month revenue as of June 2026, with $241 million from BRC's units and $200 million from Sangoma. BRC's communications portfolio alone produced approximately $52 million in segment income over the same period.

St. Louis – September 28, 2026 -- Balto Software has launched Kodi, an AI coworker for contact center leaders that moves beyond generating insights to directly executing approved changes across the tools teams use to run daily operations.

Kodi investigates problems and implements fixes without manual handoffs

Kodi can investigate underlying customer interactions, identify factors driving a given outcome, and present evidence before recommending a course of action. Once a leader reviews and approves the recommendation, Kodi executes it directly within Balto's platform through Agent Assist, coaching modules, QA scorecards, compliance scorecards, Notes, dynamic prompts, checklists, dashboards, and data fields.

Kyle Jones, VP of Product at Balto, said most insights tools stop at identifying a problem, while Kodi is designed to carry the process through to execution inside the platform.

Stamford, Conn. – September 28, 2026 -- Charter Communications' Spectrum brand has activated compute capacity across more than 1,000 owned and operated edge data centers, placing processing power within 10 milliseconds of 500 million connected devices in U.S. homes and businesses.

The buildout, branded Edge Compute Infrastructure (ECI) and powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms, combines Spectrum's fiber network with distributed facilities to move AI processing closer to where data is generated -- a requirement as AI shifts from answering text prompts to controlling physical machines such as robots and sensors.

Dallas – September 28, 2026 -- Conifers has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc # US54127026, September 2026), the company announced.

Conifers' CognitiveSOC platform unifies fragmented security operations into one adaptive system

The recognition arrives as security operations centers confront autonomous agents built on frontier models capable of discovering vulnerabilities and moving across systems at machine speed. Conifers built its CognitiveSOCTM platform to connect threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation into a single continuously adapting operating layer, replacing disconnected tools and manual handoffs. Every CognitiveSOC decision includes a reasoning trace analysts can inspect, with machine-speed actions constrained by permissions, policies, and approval thresholds set by security teams.

Houston – – September 28, 2026 -- Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators, and named former Johnson Controls executive Martin Renkis as chief executive.

Corenix builds AI data center modules on NVIDIA reference designs

Corenix designs, manufactures, and factory-tests complete data center modules covering IT, power, cooling, and networking before shipping them to project sites for installation, commissioning, and operational readiness. The company positions itself at the deployment layer of AI infrastructure, offering a single accountable team from factory integration through on-site go-live.

McLean, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ID.me, the digital identity wallet serving over 170 million users, has appointed Susannah Stroud Wright as Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan as Executive Vice President of Engineering, expanding its executive team as the company scales AI-driven identity verification across federal and state agencies.