IT, AI & Telecommunications

Toronto – September 26, 2026 -- PomeGran Inc. has been named the #1 Telecom Services provider for the second consecutive year in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine 2026 ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies, placing #82 out of 375 companies nationwide on verified three-year revenue growth of 348% between 2022 and 2025.

PomeGran repeats as Canada's top-ranked telecom growth company

The Toronto-based fibre infrastructure provider previously ranked #62 overall among 400 companies in 2025, with three-year revenue growth of 557%. The company is listed in the ranking's Technology and Telecom category, based on its expansion of sovereign fibre networks and neocloud services across Ontario and Quebec.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 26, 2026 -- The Shadow AI Risk & Governance Market is set to expand from USD 1.39 billion in 2026 to USD 8.64 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 35.6%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The 2025 baseline stood at USD 1.02 billion, underscoring rapid acceleration as enterprises confront AI tools deployed outside centrally managed IT environments.

Unauthorized AI usage forces enterprises toward auditable governance systems

Corporate compliance teams are shifting from written AI policies to platforms that generate traceable evidence of risk assessments, approvals, and monitoring outcomes. This demand is pushing vendors to automate evidence collection and maintain audit trails across AI applications, rather than relying on manual documentation.

Burlington, Vt. – September 26, 2026 -- nuHarbor has launched a new Managed Extended Detection and Response (mXDR) offering built on Splunk, targeting state and local government agencies that operate fragmented security stacks across dozens of separately procured tools.

State agencies inherit decades of disconnected security purchases

Most state governments lack a uniform security architecture, with individual agencies procuring their own SIEM, EDR, and identity tools on independent budgets and timelines. This creates visibility gaps between systems that were never designed to interoperate, according to nuHarbor.

Los Angeles – September 25, 2026 -- MeetKai is rolling out a sovereign AI stack built on NVIDIA accelerated computing across six countries -- Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh -- home to more than 700 million people, following a public-tender win in Brazil and plans for the first national-scale AI factory in Ukraine.

SERPRO awards MeetKai Brasil the top score in Brazil's national sovereign AI tender

MeetKai Brasil won the public tender run by SERPRO, Brazil's federal government IT company, to deploy a sovereign AI platform and locally trained models on NVIDIA accelerated computing inside the country. The deployment includes a sovereign coding agent for secure workflows and targets regulated sectors -- banks, insurers, energy companies and state-owned enterprises -- whose regulators require workloads to remain under Brazilian control.

Singapore – September 25, 2026 -- Brightray Veridian Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brightray Science Inc., has signed a Prefabricated Module Sales Framework Agreement with a Macao-based developer for a planned 40MW artificial intelligence data center in Coloane, Macao, with delivery targeted for the third quarter of 2027.

Framework agreement covers 40MW AI data center at Coloane site

New York – September 25, 2026 -- Texture has released CommonGrid, an open, Wikipedia-style database that maps every U.S. electric utility, grid operator, power plant, and major grid asset into a single searchable model.

Texture builds a single registry from data once scattered across hundreds of sources

CommonGrid aggregates U.S. investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, municipal utilities, and federal power agencies alongside ISOs, RTOs, and balancing authorities into one connected graph. The dataset covers solar, wind, nuclear, gas, and hydro plants above 1 MW, transmission lines from 69 kV to 765 kV, every public EV charging station with network and plug-standard details, wholesale pricing nodes across seven ISOs/RTOs, substations normalized from OpenStreetMap at 69 kV and above, and utility programs, rebates, and tariff structures.

New York – September 25, 2026 -- Sixty-nine percent of enterprise technology decision-makers now weigh energy more heavily in AI and data infrastructure decisions than a year ago, according to new research from EnterpriseDB (EDB) presented at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit this week. The survey of 300 respondents, conducted in September 2026, found reliability of supply cited by 49% of respondents as a leading energy factor, with cost and energy efficiency each cited by 48%.

London – – September 25, 2026 -- Nscale Limited has closed a $3.36 billion convertible loan note financing led by Third Point, with NVIDIA committing an additional $1 billion tranche expected to fund in mid-November 2026.

Nscale secures $2.36 billion at initial closing, with NVIDIA's $1 billion tranche to follow

The financing structure splits into two tranches: a $2.36 billion initial close and a subsequent $1 billion commitment from NVIDIA. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as placement agent for the round.

San Francisco – September 25, 2026 -- Omneky has launched TASTE BENCH, an evaluation suite that scores whether AI-generated image and video ads are ready to run without human rework.

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst leads eight models with a 54.2% ready-to-run rate

In first-attempt tests across eight image models, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst produced ready-to-run ads 54.2% of the time (32 of 59 briefs), scoring an average quality of 7.38 out of 10. Ready-to-run rates across all eight models ranged from 22.0% to 54.2%, with Omneky's own review step disabled during testing.

The benchmark covers 469 ads generated across four brands and five languages

The current edition of TASTE BENCH spans eight image models, 59 ad briefs, four brands, and five languages -- English, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and Spanish. The tests generated 469 ads and produced 1,371 valid blind judge reviews.

Waterloo, ON – September 25, 2026 -- OpenText Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX; TSX: OTEX) has slashed the ceiling on its cash tender offer for outstanding 3.875% Senior Notes due 2028 to $300 million from $450 million, while pushing back key deadlines by one day.

OpenText lowers aggregate maximum tender amount by $150 million

The amended terms cut the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount for the Bonds from $450 million to $300 million aggregate principal amount, according to the company's announcement modifying the Offer to Purchase dated September 23, 2026.