IT, AI & Telecommunications

Las Vegas – September 25, 2026 -- Ault & Company, Inc. has invested $55 million directly into Hyperscale Data, Inc. through convertible preferred stock purchases, building a beneficial ownership stake of approximately 62% in the NYSE American-listed company.

Ault & Company files 13D amendment disclosing 62% stake in Hyperscale Data

The $55 million figure excludes additional funds spent by Ault & Company and its affiliates on Hyperscale Data common stock through open market purchases. Details of the ownership position appear in Schedule 13D/A Amendment No. 19, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2026.

Austin, Texas – September 25, 2026 -- Forge AI Deployment has committed $30 million to webAI to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems for enterprise customers, the companies announced.

Forge pairs $30 million commitment with webAI's collaborative intelligence platform

The deal combines webAI's technology with Forge's enterprise deployment and services operation. Forge will work directly with customers to build AI systems around proprietary data, workflows and operations, running on infrastructure those customers control, from individual specialized AI Personas to company-wide deployments.

Dallas – – September 25, 2026 -- AT&T's board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.2775 per share on the company's common shares, payable Nov. 2, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business Oct. 12, 2026.

AT&T sets preferred stock payouts alongside common dividend

The board also approved quarterly dividends on AT&T's 5.000% Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, and its 4.750% Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series C. The Series A dividend totals $312.50 per preferred share, equivalent to $0.3125 per depositary share. The Series C dividend is set at $296.875 per preferred share, or $0.296875 per depositary share.

All dividend classes share the same record and payment dates

Common stock, Series A and Series C preferred stock dividends will all be paid on Nov. 2, 2026, to holders of record at the close of business on Oct. 12, 2026.

Fort Worth, Texas – September 25, 2026 -- The Starr Conspiracy has launched Battle Card Builder, a free tool that generates competitive intelligence on a company and three named competitors in about four minutes, giving B2B tech sales and marketing teams instant access to pricing data, objection handlers and deal strategy without a login or credit card.

Tool runs three of 33 GTM Kernel components using the agency's paid-tier AI pipeline

Battle Card Builder activates the Category, Competitors and Choice Factors modules of The Starr Conspiracy's proprietary GTM Kernel, running the same AI research pipeline and model tier used in its paid client offering. Users select their company and three rivals in an arcade-style interface, verify a work email, and receive a completed report by email.

Los Angeles – September 25, 2026 -- Stand8, a global technology consulting firm, has launched the Stand8 Model Gateway, a new enterprise AI service designed to reduce model spending and compress the path from proof of concept to production AI deployment into a 90-day sprint.

Gateway routes each AI task to the most cost-effective model without touching client data

The gateway is deployed inside the client's own cloud account on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, sitting between applications and the models they call. Stand8 designs and tunes the routing logic but does not sit in the data path itself. The system evaluates each task and routes it to the most appropriate option among leading closed models, open-source and open-weight models, or smaller fine-tuned models, while layering in caching, identity, policy, and audit controls.

Wilmington, Del. – September 25, 2026 -- Synteq has launched its largest single-site expansion to date, deploying a full-scale cloud and GPU compute facility in Chicago that extends the company's infrastructure into the Northern US Central region.

Chicago site runs Synteq's newest core platform end to end

The Chicago deployment combines high-density GPU compute for AI and machine learning workloads with virtualized cloud, bare metal servers, and block storage, all operated on Synteq's own network backbone, AS400304, and managed entirely by the Synteq team.

Chicago – September 25, 2026 -- Keeper Security has launched a zero-knowledge Google Chat integration that lets organizations approve privileged access requests, retrieve credentials and manage secrets without leaving Google Workspace.

Integration eliminates tool-switching for privileged access approvals

The new Google Chat App allows teams to submit vault access requests with justification and custom permission levels, retrieve secrets, and approve just-in-time elevation requests directly within chat channels. Administrators can enforce time-limited access windows and policy-driven approval routing without requiring users to navigate separate systems, while full audit trails and reporting remain intact.

Washington – September 25, 2026 -- Knox Systems, which operates the largest FedRAMP and DISA-managed cloud, said veterans now make up 25% of its security workforce as it launches new recruiting partnerships with VetJobs, Military Spouse Jobs, and Hire Heroes USA.

Knox partners with three veteran-employment organizations to widen its hiring pipeline

The company will connect with veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses across its security, technology, and operations lines through the new agreements. All open roles at Knox are open to veteran applicants, with hiring managers working to match military experience to technical and security positions.

Dallas and Tel Aviv – September 25, 2026 -- Enterprises have working detections for only 63% of the cyber threats they have already identified as relevant, leaving more than a third of known risks operationally uncovered, according to new research from Conifers based on an analysis of 14,652 detections in live enterprise environments.

The report, titled The Detection Blind Spot, found that detection coverage extended to just 64% of the MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to each environment studied. Nearly half of all detections examined, 47%, required attention before they could be trusted to function as intended, despite appearing as deployed or healthy in standard inventory-based reporting.

Horsham, Pa. – September 25, 2026 -- C&D Technologies is introducing the Broadband MAX Pure Lead AGM and Gel battery series and previewing the TEL-HT MAX, a UPS battery engineered to cut total cost of ownership by up to 20% for telecom operators. The company will showcase both products at SCTE TechExpo26, running September 29 through September 25, 2026, in Atlanta, at booth G1332.

Broadband MAX targets lifecycle costs for Outside Plant operators

The Broadband MAX VRLA battery series is built to extend service life and reduce the frequency of battery replacements in Outside Plant applications, directly lowering lifecycle costs for broadband network operators managing distributed infrastructure.